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A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs, with the full moon dimming slightly as it passes through the Earth's penumbral shadow. It is visible from most of North America, the Pacific Ocean, parts of East Asia, and New Zealand.
2020-11-30

A team of ocean explorers announce the discovery of Imperial Japanese aircraft carrier "Akagi" on the Pacific seafloor. The vessel was sunk in 1942 during the World War II Battle of Midway.
2019-10-21

South Korea becomes the first East Asian country to legalize medical cannabis.
2018-11-25

Chinese space station "Tiangong-1" crashes into the South Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.
2018-04-2

An earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale occurs in the Pacific Ocean near Chile sparking a tsunami warning. At least five people die.
2015-09-16

A Ukrainian–Russian carrier rocket Zenit-3SL carrying a telecommunications satellite Intelsat 27 fails 40 seconds after the lift-off and plunges into the Pacific Ocean shortly during Sea Launch.
2013-02-1

HTV-3 detaches from the ISS for a burial in the Pacific Ocean. ATV 3 thrusts the ISS' orbit two kilometers up. TMA-04M will land on 17 September. ATV-003, named "Edoardo Amaldi", is planned to disconnect on September 25th and burn up itself and a load of trash in the atmosphere over the same ocean.
2012-09-14

The United States National Hurricane Center advises that Hurricane Bud has formed off the Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico and has reached category two strength.
2012-05-24

Russia's unmanned Fobos-Grunt space probe re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after a failed mission to the Martian moon Phobos. The 13-ton spacecraft disintegrates over the southern Pacific Ocean at approximately 16:45 UTC. China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, which was launched together with Fobos-Grunt, is also destroyed.
2012-01-15

Tropical Storm Adrian forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean becoming the first tropical storm of the 2011 Pacific hurricane season.
2011-06-7