" A spy-agency analysis released Thursday contends a second attack on U. S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin never happened, casting further doubt on the leading rationale for escalation of 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 ).

Phillips has an older brother, Peter Phillips ( born 15 November 1977 ) and two half-sisters, Felicity Tonkin ( born in 1985 to her father by his brief affair with Heather Tonkin ) and Stephanie Phillips, born 2 October 1997 from her father's second marriage to Sandy Pflueger.

Two nights later, on August 4, 1964, Stockdale was overhead during the second reported attack in the Tonkin Gulf.

Phillips has two half-sisters, Felicity Tonkin ( born 1985 ), the daughter of Mark Phillips and his former mistress Heather Tonkin, and Stephanie Phillips ( born 1997 ), the daughter of his father's second marriage to Sandy Pflueger.

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.

The second was a small detachment of " spahis Tonkinese " raised in Tonkin in 1888 and disestablished the following year.

He served on the Morton for two years, and was on board for the second Gulf of Tonkin Incident in September 1964, which precipitated the first significant aircraft carrier strikes against North Vietnam.

The Gulf News published on 30 November 2011, saying " This is the biggest drug bust of its kind in 2011 and the second big one in the last three years worldwide ," said Dr. Wadia Maalouf, International expert at the United Nation's Drug and Crime office.

* 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

After Australian waters with some 80, 000 dugong inhabitants, the waters off Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia have some 7, 500 dugongs remaining, making the Persian Gulf the second most important habitat for the species.

Nevertheless its important position which kept on providing access to the Persian Gulf ensured the ongoing economical importance of the city during the second millennium BC.

Though European mariners, such as John Cabot and Alonso Sanchez in the 15th Century and the Norse 500 years still earlier, explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence the first European explorer known to have sailed up the St. Lawrence River itself was Jacques Cartier, during his second trip to Canada in 1535, with the help of Iroquoian chief Donnacona's two sons.

It is the largest island in the Hochelaga Archipelago, and the second largest in the Saint Lawrence River ( following Anticosti Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ).

Pinellas forms a peninsula bounded on the west by the Gulf of Mexico and on the south and east by Tampa Bay, forming Florida's second smallest county, after Union County.

Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway built southward in the 1920s leading to Gruver, becoming the second largest town in the county.

In most Gulf countries as well as Jordan, English is introduced as a second language early on alongside the primary medium of instruction, Arabic.

Two years later a one-room school built and in 1913 a second railroad ( The San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Pacific ) arrived.

At the height of its operations, Cabot was second only to Gulf Oil as the largest private employer in Ward County.

The Port of Catoosa is the second farthest inland seaport in the United States behind Duluth, Minnesota, linking Tulsa to the Arkansas River and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico.

" Portland is situated on the second highest bluff on the Gulf Coast and overlooks the dancing waves of both Nueces and Corpus Christi Bays.

Despite being unable to get a new resolution authorizing force and citing section 3 of the Joint Resolution passed by the U. S. Congress, President George W. Bush asserted peaceful measures could not disarm Iraq of the weapons he alleged it to have and launched a second Gulf War, despite multiple dissenting opinions and questions of integrity about the underlying intelligence.

In the second book of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Nemo comes close to revealing his Indian ancestry, though this is not obvious except in retrospect, in a scene where he saves a Ceylonese fisherman while on a pearl-diving expedition in the Gulf of Mannar.

* Rio-Antirio bridge with a total length of 2 880 m and four towers, this is the bridge with the second longest cable-stayed suspended deck ( 2 258 m long ) in the world, spanning the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, Greece.

The second was the Persian Gulf War era Challenger 1, which was the British army's main battle tank ( MBT ) from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Initially, King Manuel I of Portugal tried a power distribution with three governors in different areas of jurisdiction: a government covering the area and possessions in East Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf, overseeing up Cambay ( Gujarat ); a second one ruling the possessions in India ( Hindustan ) and Ceylon, and a third one from Malacca to the Far East .< ref > O Secretário dos despachos e coisas da Índia pero d ´ Alcáçova Carneiro, p. 65, Maria Cecília Costa Veiga de Albuquerque Ramos, Universidade de Lisboa, 2009 ( In Portuguese ) < http :// repositorio. ul. pt / bitstream / 10451 / 3387 / 1 / ulfl080844_tm. pdf ></ ref > However the post was centered by governor Afonso de Albuquerque ( 1509 – 1515 ), who became plenipotentiary, and remained so.

Leyte Gulf was also the scene of the largest naval battle of the second world war, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

The next year they formed the American Telegraph Company and began buying up other companies, rationalizing them into a consolidated system that ran from Maine to the Gulf Coast ; the system was second only to Western Union's.

Unlike the neutral Americans in the first incident, the only witnesses to the second attack were the German and British sailors present.

The incident with Steve Bartman and a come-from-behind win in Wrigley Field in Game 7 helped the Marlins capture their second NL pennant, keeping the " Curse of the Billy Goat " alive and well.

The second incident occurred on 1 September 1983, during a period of heightened Cold War tension, when a Soviet Su-15 interceptor shot down a straying Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island, just west of Sakhalin Island.

The debate topics ranged broadly from the usual such as abortion and foreign policy to the unusual such as an incident preceding the then-current baseball playoffs, in which Roberto Alomar, the Baltimore Orioles ' second baseman, cursed and spat on an umpire.

:" More than any other single factor or incident, Mojave Desert incident from Frémont's second expedition report is where the Kit Carson legend was born ..."

An incident in the second Test of the 1960 – 61 series involved the West Indies player Joe Solomon being given out after his hat fell on the stumps after being bowled at by Richie Benaud.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

Motivated by his hatred of the federal government and angered by what he perceived as its mishandling of the Waco Siege ( 1993 ) and the Ruby Ridge incident ( 1992 ), McVeigh timed his attack to coincide with the second anniversary of the deadly fire that ended the siege at Waco.

The press immediately noticed that the bombing took place on the second anniversary of the Waco incident.

The second well-known incident of a leader extending his term indefinitely was Roman dictator Julius Caesar, who made himself " Perpetual Dictator " ( commonly mistranslated as ' Dictator-for-life ') in 45 BC.

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

The second incident occurred in 1932, when a carnival entertainer, one Mr. Electrico, touched the young man on the nose with an electrified sword, made his hair stand on end, and shouted, " Live forever!

The second major incident arose out of an initially peaceful protest by the Mau ( which literally translates as " strongly held opinion "), a non-violent popular movement which had its beginnings in the early 1900s on Savai ' i, led by Lauaki Namulauulu Mamoe, an orator chief deposed by Solf.

Essentially, even though the entire incident wave is reflected back into the originating medium, there is some penetration into the second medium at the boundary.

The accident has the second highest death toll of any incident involving an Airbus A300, after Iran Air Flight 655.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

The first occurred in 1419 and the second in 1618, although the term " Defenestration of Prague " more commonly refers to the latter incident.

* In the second film, X2: X-Men United, Jean Grey's powers have been evolving since the Liberty Island incident in the first movie.

He later said he was concerned that his captors would eventually force him to reveal what he knew about the second incident.

After this, Data keeps a hologram of Tasha with him, and during the trial regarding his rights in the second season's episode " The Measure of a Man ," he publicly admits to the incident with the words " We were intimate.

Another incident particularly occurred on his journey to the funeral of his second cousin, British King Edward VII in 1910.

" A second season was eventually signed, but instead of explaining the fate of the characters following the explosion, the season 2 opener took place five years prior to the incident.

The second usage described an incident which occurred in December 2008, wherein Hebron settlers lashed out at Palestinians in that city in response to the eviction of a settler group from a disputed building by Israeli security.