21 October: What Happened On This Day
Oil at Kra Al-Maru, a club for the deaf, and a newspaper that lasted 86 issues.
In Kuwait
1962 — A Gas Revenue Deal with BP and Gulf
Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signed the agreement on revenues and income tax from natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas with British Petroleum and Gulf Kuwait.
1974 — A Club for the Deaf Is Registered
The Deaf Club was registered as a public-benefit society under the Public Authority for Youth and Sports. The idea dated from 1973; by KUNA’s 2014 count it had more than 500 members, men and women.
1995 — Oil Found at Kra Al-Maru
Oil Minister Dr Abdulmohsen Al-Mudaij announced the first oil find at Kra Al-Maru in western Kuwait: light crude, with reserves in place estimated at about 350 million barrels.
2002 — An Agency to Serve Citizens
Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issued Decree 271 of 2002, creating the Citizens’ Service and Government Performance Evaluation Agency.
2003 — A Dyslexia Centre Opens
The Abdulmohsen Al-Kharafi Dyslexia Centre opened at the Physical Medicine Hospital: Kuwait’s first charitable medical programme for children with reading difficulties, and the first of its kind in the Islamic world.
2008 — Al-Sawt’s First Issue
The daily Al-Sawt, edited by Yousef Mohammed Al-Sumait, published its first issue. It ran to just 86 issues before closing on 3 February 2009 in the global financial crisis.
2008 — Shooting Gold
Kuwaiti shooter Maryam Arzouqi won gold in the girls’ air rifle at the first Friendship Cup for Olympic shooting in Iran, scoring 498.7 out of 600.
Source: Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) — On This Day in Kuwait (Arabic).
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