Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.

* Pearl of the South Pacific ( 1955 )

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

Due to its positioning in the South Pacific Ocean, it is frequently hit by typhoons between December and March.

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

close to vital sea lanes through South China Sea linking Indian and Pacific Oceans ; two parts physically separated by Malaysia ; almost an enclave within Malaysia

* Banda Sea, the sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, a part of the Pacific Ocean

* Bloody Mary ( South Pacific ), a character in a book

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

In many island nations such as those of the Mediterranean, South Pacific and Caribbean, tourism is central to the economy.

Chile ( or ), officially the Republic of Chile (,, Mapudungun: Gulumapu ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

After defeating Peru and Bolivia, Chile dominated the Pacific Coast of South America.

Chile also wanted to become the dominant South American military and commercial power along the Pacific.

The main highland cities in the country's Central Valley are connected by paved all-weather roads with the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by the Pan American Highway with Nicaragua and Panama, the neighboring countries to the North and the South.

* 1910 – Roger Bushell, South African-English pilot ( d. 1944 )

* 1944 – World War II: possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, New South Wales, Australia.

* 1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

* 1944 – Ban Ki-moon, South Korean diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

* 1944 – Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer

* 1944 – Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager

The territory comprised the former South Pacific Mandate, a League of Nations Mandate administered by Japan and taken by the U. S. in 1944.

He worked as a civilian flight instructor for the Army, and toured with a United Service Organisation ( USO ) South Pacific troupe in 1944.

Out of some 448, 000 Japanese residents of South Sakhalin who lived there in 1944, a significant number were evacuated to Japan during the last days of the war, but the remaining 300, 000 or so stayed behind for several more years.

These sets were too late for the D-day landings in June 1944, but were used in the invasion of the south of France and in the South Pacific war.

These were the Force Publique in the Congo ( victory against Italian troops in the South Etyopia ), expatriate Belgians in Great Britain and Canada ( which eventually formed the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ), and after September 1944, Belgians liberated by the Allied campaign in Northwestern Europe.

The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division cleared South Beveland to the east and approached the island on 31 October 1944.

Lady Luck arrived at the Lake and unpacked her bags in 1944, when Harvey's Wagon Wheel Saloon and Gambling Hall opened as one of the area's first gaming establishments ( technically on the Nevada side of the state border in the South Lake Tahoe ( Nevada gaming area ).

He served in the Royal Canadian Navy ( 1944 – 1945 ) during World War II, and after being discharged traveled in the American South, where he encountered segregation, an experience that would influence his later work.

Ron Stander ( born 17 October 1944 in Columbia, South Carolina ) is a boxing referee and former professional boxer from Council Bluffs, Iowa, who was once a challenger for the heavyweight championship of the world.

In 1921, it was planned to become a Special Administrative Region ( 瓊崖特別行政區 ); in 1944, it became Hainan Special Administrative Region with 16 counties containing the South China Sea Islands.

In 1944, he was at risk of being executed as SS troops had mistaken him for a South African spy.

In November 1943, at the official opening of the new Public Library of New South Wales building, William McKell, the New South Wales Premier, announced that the Library Act would be fully proclaimed from 1 January 1944.

* 28 January 1944, a train carrying 800 Allied Prisoners of War was bombed when it crossed a bridge on the Ponte Paglia in Allerona, Italy, killing approximately 400 British, U. S. and South African prisoners.

* 14 – 18 August 1944, the South Alberta Regiment of the 4th Canadian Armoured Division came under fire six times by RAF Spitfires, resulting in over 57 casualties.

South Korea's oldest car company, Kia was founded on June 9, 1944 as a manufacturer of steel tubing and bicycle parts by hand – and has operated as one of the country's Chaebols since.

His extended trips and inspection tours were to the United Kingdom in April 1941 and again in May 1942 ; the South Pacific in September 1942, North Africa and China in January – February 1943 ; the Middle East and Italy ( where his party came under artillery fire ) in November – December 1943 ; London and Normandy accompanying Marshall in June 1944 ; Germany and Italy in April – May 1945 ; the Western Pacific in June 1945 ; and Potsdam in July 1945.