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Historical Events
Events 1 - 57 of 57
1960-09-14 - Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
1961-06-19 - Kuwait declares independence from UK
1961-06-24 - Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1961-06-25 - Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1961-11-30 - USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
1962-08-29 - Some provisions of Kuwaiti constitution are suspended
1962-11-11 - Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1962-11-16 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1963-05-14 - Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations
1964-08-14 - Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market
1973-12-17 - Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
1977-12-31 - Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
1978-02-08 - Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
1983-12-12 - A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
1984-12-04 - Hijackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
1984-12-04 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
1984-12-06 - Hijackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
1984-12-09 - 6 day hijack of Kuwaiti jet ends
1984-12-09 - Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane
1986-07-03 - Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves
1987-03-23 - US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf
1987-07-22 - US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1990-07-17 - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990-07-24 - US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
1990-07-25 - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
1990-08-01 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait
1990-08-02 - Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
1990-08-03 - Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion
1990-08-08 - Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province
1990-08-16 - Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq
1990-08-24 - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1990-09-09 - Bush & Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait
1990-09-13 - Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait
1990-09-27 - Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly
1990-09-28 - Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House
1990-10-01 - Pres Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait
1990-11-18 - Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev
1990-11-26 - Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990-12-12 - US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
1990-12-22 - Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1991-01-15 - UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1991-01-16 - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time)
1991-01-23 - World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1991-02-22 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991-02-23 - US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST
1991-02-26 - Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
1991-02-27 - Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated & Kuwait is re-taken by the US
1991-03-01 - US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1991-03-05 - Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
1991-03-07 - Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait
1991-03-14 - Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991-03-24 - In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991-03-31 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
1993-06-26 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
2005-03-07 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.
2005-05-16 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2010-08-19 - Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 4 of 4
1902-01-12 - Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud, Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia)
1915-06-18 - Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1926-06-29 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1967-05-20 - Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 8 of 8
1915-11-28 - Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1917-02-05 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1921-02-22 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1950-01-29 - Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1965-11-24 - Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895)
1977-12-31 - Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924)
2006-01-15 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
2008-05-13 - Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930)
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