** international: country code-56 ; submarine cables provide links to the US and to Central and South America ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )

** Festa da Conceição da Praia, celebrating Yemanjá, Queen of the Ocean ( Salvador, Bahia )

** Ocean Terminal

** international: satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( 1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean )

** Operation Ocean Shield, from 2009 ( Gulf of Aden ) – 230 soldiers

** Satellite earth station: Intersputnik ( Indian Ocean Region ) Intelsat, Asiasat-1

** international: country code-82 ; 10 fiber-optic submarine cables-1 Korea-Russia-Japan, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong, 3 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-China-Europe, 1 Korea-Japan-China-US-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan-China, 1 Korea-Japan-Hong Kong-Taiwan, 1 Korea-Japan ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean ) and 3 Inmarsat ( 1 Pacific Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean )

** Ocean track, in flight planning, the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects

** Paleotethys Ocean ( c. 445 – 75 Ma )

** Neotethys Ocean ( c. 300 – 100 Ma )

** Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

** Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

** American adventurer Richard Halliburton delivers a last message from a Chinese junk, before he disappears on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

** Twenty-four ships are sunk by German bombers and submarines after Convoy PQ 17 to the Soviet Union is scattered in the Arctic Ocean to evade the German battleship Tirpitz.

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

** An Aeroperú Boeing 757 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 on board.

** Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.

** An annular solar eclipse is seen on Atlantic Ocean and Africa.

** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

** Xun Zi ( c. 312 BC – 230 BC )

** Gongsun Long ( c. 325 BC – c. 250 BC )

** Sunzi ( c. 500 BC )

** Mani ( c. 216 AD – 276 AD )

** Mazdak ( died c. 524 or 528 AD )

** Andronikos V Palaiologos ( c. 1400 – c. 1407 ), Co-Emperor with his father John VII Palaiologos

** Trial before Gallio c. 51-52 ( 18: 12-17 )

** Confessio Amantis by John Gower ( c. 1350 )

** Cursor Mundi by an anonymous cleric ( c. 1300 )

** Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões ( c. 1555 )

** Davideis by Abraham Cowley ( c. 1668 )

** Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( part 1 1806, part 2 c. 1833 )

** Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson ( c. 1874 )

** Paterson by William Carlos Williams ( composed c. 1940-1961 )

** Ancient Greek, ( c. 1000 – 330 BC )

** Koine Greek or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, ( c. 330 BC – 330 AD )

** c. 7 Ma: First hominins appear

** Early Dynastic IIIb period: c. 2500 – 2334 BC

** Justin Martyr, Doctor, c. 165 CE ( Eastern Orthodox ; Anglican Communion commemoration )

** Early Assyrian kingdom ( 24th to 18th c. BC )

** Early Babylonia ( 19th to 18th c. BC )

** First Babylonian Dynasty ( 18th to 17th c. BC )

** collapse: Minoan Eruption ( c. 1620 BC )