* 1968 – Apollo Program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.

* 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

Extending approximately 15, 500 kilometres ( 9, 600 mi ) from the Bering Sea in the Arctic to the northern extent of the circumpolar Southern Ocean at 60 ° S ( older definitions extend it to Antarctica's Ross Sea ), the Pacific reaches its greatest east-west width at about 5 ° N latitude, where it stretches approximately 19, 800 kilometres ( 12, 300 mi ) from Indonesia to the coast of Colombia – halfway across the world, and more than five times the diameter of the Moon.

* November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

Columbia, took off from Florida and landed in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the Moon.

Moon and clouds over the Pacific Ocean | Western Pacific as seen from Gemini 7 spacecraft

Jellies included are Atlantic Sea Nettle, Blue Blubber Jelly, Egg Yolk Jelly, Japanese Sea Nettle, Lion's Mane, Moon Jelly, Northeast Pacific Sea Nettle, Purple Striped Sea Nettle, Spotted Lagoon Jelly, Umbrella Jelly, and the Upside-down Jelly.

Similarly, Pacific Asian Plaza is the venue for the Chinese autumnal Moon Festival.

The Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is named after her, as well as the asteroid 323 Brucia, and the crater Bruce on the Moon.

Yost won an Emmy award for his involvement in the mini-series From the Earth to the Moon and for his involvement in The Pacific.

* Moon Festival: This annual celebration in the courtyard of the Memorial Student Union Building kicks off the various Asian Pacific Heritage events around the campus.

offers views of Half Moon Bay along the Pacific Coast as it summits Kings Mountain.

Pescadero is situated near the Pacific Ocean about south of Half Moon Bay and about north of Santa Cruz.

* From the Earth to the Moon ( 1865 ) by Jules Verne in which a projectile is launched from Florida and lands in the Pacific Ocean, not unlike the Apollo Program.

* The Gamblers: Moon Dawg ( 1960, 7 ", USA, World Pacific Single # 815 )

* Paper Moon Affair ( プライベート ・ ムーン Puraibeeto Mūn ) ( 2005 ): Shimizu stars as Keiko, an enigmatic Japanese beauty, married to a domineering Chinese husband, forced to find herself while lost in a small town in the remote Pacific Northwest.

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

* Northern Pacific Railway Corporate Records, Minnesota Historical Society.

Other record labels in the Pacific Northwest that helped promote grunge included C / Z Records, Estrus Records, EMpTy Records and PopLlama Records.

Blue Note Records became the flagship jazz label for Capitol Jazz and Classics and was the parent label for the Capitol Jazz, Pacific Jazz, Roulette and other labels within Capitol's holdings which possessed a jazz line.

Shankar befriended Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records, on his first American tour and recorded most of his albums in the 1950s and 1960s for Bock's label.

* A sample probably taken from the German gong station documented by the Conet project appears both in the introduction to and throughout the song " Jet Stream " by Pacific, most notably featured on 1988 Creation Records sampler Doing It for the Kids.

It was only after Roulette Records and Levy's Big Seven Music publishing company were sold ( the record company to an EMI and Rhino Records partnership, the music publishing company to Windswept Pacific Music which was later sold to EMI ) that James began to receive large royalty checks from sales of his records.

He recorded many albums for Pacific Jazz, Prestige Records, Groove Merchant and Muse Records, many of which featured Houston Person.

* Pacific Records

* Pacific Jazz Records

) and electronic music into a singular musical mix (" Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock " on Digitalis Industries, " Collected Works " on Porter Records ).

It was issued as an LP ( SLD-69 ) by Kiwi / Pacific Records in 1982.

In 1957, Liberty acquired Dick Bock's jazz label, Pacific Jazz Records.

* Pacific Jazz Records, acquired by Liberty in 1957

* Northern Pacific Railway Corporate Records, Minnesota Historical Society.

* Guide to the Northern Pacific Railway Company Records at the University of Montana Contains company materials predominantly from the late 1880s through the early 1940s.

* Guide to the Panama Pacific International Exposition Records at The Bancroft Library

* CD recording of Turetzky's Pacific Parable, winner of San Diego Music Award, Studio 101, Orphan Records, June 24, 1993.

Both Hi-Fi records were released on First American Records and distribution was mostly limited to the Pacific Northwest region.

He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.

" On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825.

On July 22, 1994, he was assigned as commander of Marine Forces < nowiki > Pacific / commanding </ nowiki > general, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, and in March 1995 he was nominated to serve as the commandant of the Marine Corps.

On July 14, 1811, Thompson reached the partially constructed Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, arriving two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin.

On 5 July 2008 a meeting took place between Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.

Crick died of colon cancer on 28 July 2004 at the University of California San Diego ( UCSD ) Thornton Hospital in La Jolla ; he was cremated and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.

The all-time speed record for steam trains is held by an LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive of the LNER in the United Kingdom, number 4468 Mallard, which pulling six carriages ( plus a dynamometer car ) reached 126 mph ( 203 km / h ) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938.

In July 1962, the United States tested a thermonuclear weapon high over the South Pacific at around 400 km in the upper atmosphere, in this region, creating an artificial belt of high-energy electrons, and some of them were still around 4 – 5 years later ( such tests are now banned by treaty ).

He served until July 31, 1946, after the second World War had ended on both the European and Pacific fronts.

Moreover, towards concluding the Pacific Theatre of War, the Potsdam Conference issued the Potsdam Declaration, the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender ( 26 July 1945 ) wherein the Western Allies ( UK, US, USSR ) and the Nationalist China of General Chiang Kai-shek asked Japan to surrender or be destroyed.

Conceived as a sort of Japanese playwright's version of an American musical about American influences on Japan, Pacific Overtures begins its journey to the present day in July 1853.

Prior to assuming that position, he was Commander, Pacific Air Forces, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, from July 1997 to July 1998.

* July 5-meeting between Venezuela, Colombia ( Colombia ) and Ecuador ( Ecuador ) regarding a railway for freight and passengers to link the three countries, and linking the Pacific with the Atlantic also.

In 1776, Bligh was selected by Captain James Cook for the position of sailing master on the Resolution and accompanied Cook in July 1776 on Cook's third and fatal voyage to the Pacific.

It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July, and kills 34.

* July 15 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing incorporates Pacific Aero Products ( later renamed Boeing ).

* July 10 – The University of the Pacific is chartered as California Wesleyan College in Santa Clara, California.

* July 6 – First recorded eruption of Manam Volcano ( erupting frequently since then ), forming a 10-km-wide island in the Bismarck Sea, 13 km off coast of Papua New Guinea, in the southwestern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

* July 20 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792 – 1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.

* July 30 – Malden Island ( an uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean ) is discovered.

Due to competition with the War for workers, rails, ties, railroad engines and supplies, the Union Pacific RR did not start construction until July 1865.

On July 4, 1865, the Union Pacific had not gone further than from Omaha — even as the Central Pacific had been working away for 2½ years.