20 October: What Happened On This Day
A literary society meets, the e-government portal goes live, and relief sails to Mogadishu.
In Kuwait
1958 — The Literary Society Holds Its First Meeting
The board of Kuwait’s Literary Society met for the first time. Founded that May, the society worked out of Shuwaikh Secondary School as a temporary home and set out to put Kuwait’s literary life in front of regional writers’ conferences.
1971 — One College Becomes Two
Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah issued a decree splitting Kuwait University’s College of Science, Arts and Education into a College of Science and a College of Arts and Education.
1973 — The Jahra Force Heads to the Golan
Kuwait’s Jahra Force deployed to Syria and fought for 84 days on the Mount Hermon front in the war of attrition, returning home on 25 September 1974.
2001 — A Prize with UNESCO
Kuwait and UNESCO signed an agreement in Paris creating the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Prize for research on people with disabilities and special educational needs.
2002 — Kuwait’s Records Come Back
Iraq began returning Kuwaiti documents taken during the 1990 occupation, starting with 30 boxes of Interior Ministry records.
2008 — The Kuwait Government Portal Goes Live
The Central Agency for Information Technology launched the first phase of the state’s official online portal, built with ministries, public bodies and private firms as the first step towards e-government.
2011 — Relief Ship Reaches Mogadishu
A Kuwaiti aid ship docked at Mogadishu with 650 tonnes of relief supplies for people displaced by the drought in Somalia.
Source: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) — On This Day in Kuwait (Arabic).
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