Tokyo Bay Timeline of Events

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Tokyo Bay

is a bay in the southern Kantō region of Japan. Its old name was .-Geography:Tokyo Bay is surrounded by the Bōsō Peninsula to the east and the Miura Peninsula to the west. In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is the area north of the straight line formed by the on the Miura Peninsula on one end and on the Boso Peninsula on the other end...

Timeline of Events

1853

7.8.1853

Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay.

1945

9.2.1945

World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

1966

2.4.1966

All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.