* 1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U. S. destroyers and.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: the U. S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

* 1964 – Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers and bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

* 1964 – Gulf of Tonkin incident: U. S. destroyers and report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.

" Since World War II, every major military action has been technically a U. S. military operation or a U. N. " police action ", which are deemed legally legitimate by Congress, and various United Nations Resolutions because of decisions such as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Authorization for Use of Force.

It borders the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia.

Once an inlet of the Gulf of Tonkin, it has been filled in by the enormous alluvial deposits of the rivers over a period of millennia, and it advances one hundred meters into the Gulf annually.

During the winter or dry season, extending roughly from November to April, the monsoon winds usually blow from the northeast along the China coast and across the Gulf of Tonkin, picking up considerable moisture ; consequently the winter season in most parts of the country is dry only by comparison with the rainy or summer season.

The territorial border between the two countries is being definitively mapped pursuant to a Land Border Agreement signed in December 1999, and an Agreement on Borders in the Gulf of Tonkin signed in December 2000.

Disputes-international: maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined ; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Republic of China ( ROC ), Malaysia, Philippines, and possibly Brunei ; maritime boundary with Thailand resolved in August 1997 ; maritime boundary dispute with the PRC in the Gulf of Tonkin resolved in 2000 ; Paracel Islands occupied by the PRC but claimed by Vietnam and the ROC ; offshore islands and sections of boundary with Cambodia are in dispute ; agreement on land border with the People's Republic of China was signed in December 1999.

Both nations are working to establish an " economic corridor " from China's Yunnan province to Vietnam's northern provinces and cities, and similar economic zones in the Gulf of Tonkin and connecting the Nanning of Guangxi province, Lang Son province, Hanoi, Haiphong and Quang Ninh province of Vietnam.

*** 1964 – In direct response to the minor naval engagement known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident which occurred on August 2, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, a joint resolution of the U. S. Congress, was passed on August 10, 1964.

** Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.

** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.

* August 7 – Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U. S. forces.

* October 12 – En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, a racial riot involving more than 200 sailors breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk ; nearly 50 sailors are injured.

** A fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.

* 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.

Johnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident ( less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had nominated Barry Goldwater for President ).

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred during the first year of the Johnson administration.

That same year, the Bremerton Historic Ships Association opened the destroyer USS Turner Joy ( DD-951 ) to public tours at the end of the boardwalk ; the ship was built in the Puget Sound area in 1958, commissioned in 1959 and had played a back-up role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that further escalated U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War with the Congressional passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon B. Johnson to send fighting troops in addition to the " advisors " already on the ground in Vietnam.

Many historians have suggested that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a manufactured pretext for the Vietnam War.

Some people confuse the first Gulf of Tonkin Incident ( the 2nd of August ) and the second Gulf of Tonkin Incident ( the 4th of August ).

America officially entered the Vietnam War as a result of the Tonkin Gulf Incident on 4 August 1964.

In August 1964, as a result of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, in which U. S. naval vessels claimed to have been attacked by North Vietnamese patrol boats, President Johnson ordered retaliatory air strikes ( Operation Pierce Arrow ) launched against the north.

Known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, this event spawned the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 7 August 1964, ultimately leading to open war between North Vietnam and the United States.

Stockdale led aerial attacks from the carrier during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

Maddox during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964

This warship was involved in the Vietnam War's only US naval surface engagement against North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats from the 135th Torpedo Squadron ( Gulf of Tonkin Incident ), which led to direct open warfare between the nation of North Vietnam and the United States on 7 August 1964 ( Tonkin Gulf Resolution ).

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ( officially, the Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408 ) was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to a sea battle between the North Vietnamese Navy's Torpedo Squadron 135 and the destroyer on August 2 and an alleged second naval engagement between North Vietnamese boats and the U. S. destroyers USS Maddox and on August 4 in the Tonkin Gulf ; both naval actions are known collectively as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

In August, Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurs.

It was one of four Navy duties begun after the Tonkin Gulf Incident, along with Operation Sea Dragon, Operation Sealords and naval gunfire support.

It was used to good advantage in the 1991 Gulf War, where it scored many USAF air-to-air kills ; its kill probability, overall, is still less than 40 %.

Systematic surveys indicate the highest densities of killer whales (> 0. 40 individuals per 100 km² ) in the northeast Atlantic around the Norwegian coast, in the north Pacific along the Aleutian Islands, the Gulf of Alaska and in the Southern Ocean off much of the coast of Antarctica.

The summer months are warm but can get hot and moderately humid, with moist air riding up from the Gulf of Mexico, and high temperatures surpass on 4 days of the year, and on nearly 40 days.

The legend of Peter is still talked about, especially in the town where he lived most of his life, former Oranienbaum, later Lomonosov, situated on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 40 km west of St. Petersburg.

The next southerly atoll is Ducie Island in the Pitcairn Islands Group, at 24 ° 40 ' S. Bermuda is sometimes claimed as the " northernmost atoll " at a latitude of 32 ° 24 ' N. At this latitude coral reefs would not develop without the warming waters of the Gulf Stream.

In 1974, the Kuwait National Assembly took a 60 percent stake in the equity of KOC with the remaining 40 percent divided equally between BP and Gulf.

The west coast is indented by two deep inlets, the northernmost, the Gulf of İzmit ( ancient Gulf of Astacus ), penetrating between 40 and 50 miles ( 65 – 80 km ) into the interior as far as İzmit ( ancient Nicomedia ), separated by an isthmus of only about 25 miles ( 40 km ) from the Black Sea ; and the Gulf of Mudanya or Gemlik ( Gulf of Cius ), about 25 miles ( 40 km ) long.

Inglis is located at 29 ° 1 ' 58 " North, 82 ° 40 ' 0 " West ( 29. 032878 ,-82. 666731 ), about 5 miles east of the Gulf of Mexico.

* 20px County Road 40 is a bi-county road that begins along the Gulf of Mexico in Yankeetown in Levy County, and merges with CR 336 before entering the city limits and turning north onto US 41 as hidden Florida State Road 40 where it branches off on its own in Rainbow Lake Estates north of the city.

Estimates range of 5, 000 – 40, 000 child camel jockeys in the Persian Gulf.

Caligula, his successor as the third Roman Emperor, commissioned a study in 40 AD from Egyptian experts who claimed incorrectly that the Corinthian Gulf was higher than the Saronic.

It is on the Guayas River about 40 miles ( 64 km ) north of the Gulf of Guayaquil, near the Equator.