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The Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred on August 2, 1964.

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The date of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was August 7th, 1964.

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The United States Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution on 7 August 1964.

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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident prompted the first large-scale involvement of U.S. armed forces in Vietnam. It was a pair of attacks carried out by naval forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) against two American destroyers, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. The incident occurred on August 2 and 4, 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin.[1] The outcome of the incident was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by "communist aggression". The resolution served as Johnson's legal justification for escalating American involvement in the Vietnam War, which lasted until 1975.

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Commencement of war between two nations (N. VN/US).

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Gulf of Tonkin incident happened on 1964-08-02.

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07 August 1964

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