<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" id="mwAX4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2003 invasion of Iraq">Invasion of Iraq</a>: In what becomes known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech" id="mwAX8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mission Accomplished speech">Mission Accomplished</a>" speech, on board the <a about="#mwt123" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"USS","href":"./Template:USS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Abraham Lincoln"},"2":{"wt":"CVN-72"},"3":{"wt":"6"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Abraham_Lincoln_(CVN-72)" id="mwAYA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)" typeof="mw:Transclusion">USS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Abraham Lincoln</i></a> (off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" id="mwAYE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="California">California</a>), U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" id="mwAYI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> declares that "major combat operations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" id="mwAYM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> have ended".