Two major events were turning points in the earlier history of the Gulf Coast region.

* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.

For most of the early history of the settlements in the Persian Gulf, the southern shores were ruled by a series of nomadic tribes.

* The Persian Gulf, Information, history and resources of the Persian Gulf

Somalia generally enjoys good relations with the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, and has a long history of cultural, religious, and trade ties with the Arabian Peninsula.

More recently, Hurricane Katrina redistributed over one million people from the central Gulf coast elsewhere across the United States, becoming the largest diaspora in the history of the United States.

* Several typhoons and hurricanes resulted in extreme destruction in this decade, especially in 2005 ( the most active in recorded history ) with Hurricane Katrina nearly destroying New Orleans, followed by Hurricane Rita, which wreaked destruction along the U. S. Gulf Coast.

In the summer of 2001, a wide sandbar formed at the mouth of the river, marking the first time in recorded history that the Rio Grande failed to empty into the Gulf of Mexico.

Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste and throughout history it has been influenced by its location at the crossroads of Germanic, Latin and Slavic cultures.

The first Persian Gulf War in 1991 was a watershed event for CNN that catapulted the channel past the " big three " American networks for the first time in its history, largely due to an unprecedented, historical scoop: CNN was the only news outlet with the ability to communicate from inside Iraq during the initial hours of the Coalition bombing campaign, with live reports from the al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad by reporters Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett.

Hanyok included his study of Tonkin Gulf as one chapter of an overall history of the involvement of NSA, and American signals intelligence ( SIGINT ), in the Indochina Wars.

The history of Iran has been intertwined with the history of a larger historical region, comprising the area from the Danube River in the west to the Indus River and Jaxartes in the east and from the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, and Aral Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and Egypt in the south.

In parts of Western, Gulf, Central, Oro Province and Milne Bay Provinces, however, the use of Tok Pisin has a shorter history, and is less universal, especially among older people.

Union County would produce veterans from the Spanish-American War, World War One, Mexican Conflict, World War Two, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, and the War on Terror, as well as other conflicts throughout the United States ' history.

According to the oral history of the Anishinaabeg, they originally lived on the shores of the " Great Salt Water " ( presumably the Atlantic Ocean near the Gulf of St. Lawrence ).

Today, there are Farley Boat planters located all over the city of Port Aransas celebrating the history and importance of the Farley Boat along the Gulf Coast.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

From the viewpoint of European history the Guinea Coast is associated mainly with slavery.

Thousands of sound recordings, reel-to-reel tapes, transcriptions, and radio broadcasts have made it one of the largest collections of oral history on the Pacific Coast.

The organization is now known as the Coast Guard Aviation Association which has the purpose of focusing on United States Coast Guard aviation history.

Its goals include furthering and preserving the history of Coast Guard aviation and maintaining camaraderie between past and present Coast Guard members.

* January 21 – In one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9, 500 pounds ( 4. 75 tons ) of cocaine aboard headed for Houston, Texas.

Carey's best performance for 2003 once again came in the finals, an Elimination Final against West Coast, when he had the most kicks and marks afield and became the 14th player to kick 700 career goals in AFL / VFL history.

This is supported by the photographic history of the Northwest Coast and the deeper sophistication of Haida poles.

In the United States, the history of gangs began on the East Coast in 1783 following the American Revolution.

At $ 4 million, the air and sea search by the Navy and Coast Guard was the most costly and intensive in U. S. history up to that time but search and rescue techniques during the era were rudimentary and some of the search was based on erroneous assumptions and flawed information.

On January 8, 1811, the largest slave insurrection in US history, known as the German Coast Uprising, started here.

This is not at all unusual, as the first commonly agreed international broadcast was a Morse Code telegram transmitted from US President Wilson to the German Kaiser ( mid-1918 ) via a high powered longwave transmitter on the US East Coast ( this important event in international broadcasting history was described in depth in the IEEE " The History of International Broadcasting " first volume ).

* The Natural history of the Coffs Harbour District / Dept of Continuing Education, North Coast Regional Office, U. N. E.

Hemric is the second all-time leading scorer in Atlantic Coast Conference history, currently tied with Tyler Hansbrough.

* Stephan Dubreuil, Come quick, danger: a history of marine radio in Canada, Ottawa: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Coast Guard, 1998.

He moved to the East Coast to attend Bard College in New York, where he majored in economics and art history.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Everyone is ready to grant the Persians their history, but almost no one is willing to acknowledge their present.

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

It is different with his volume The Swedes And Their Chieftains ( Svenskarna och deras Hovdingar ), a history intended for the general reader and particularly suited for high school students.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

The implicit assumption of this response is that history is reversible.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

His own testimony is that he has read very little in the history of the South, implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

This is what was meant, above, by describing history as inferential.