On This Day

What happened in Kuwait on this date. Documented dates: events, births and deaths, what was founded and what changed, and moments from politics, art, music, theatre and Kuwait’s relations with the world.

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9 September: What Happened On This Day

An American oil concession was ended in 1977, Failaka's antiquities moved to the National Museum, and a United Nations honour for Kuwait.

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7 September: What Happened On This Day

The national flag law was issued in 1961, and Kuwait signed the convention on the rights of the child in 1990.

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5 September: What Happened On This Day

The Mubarak Al Kabeer reserve on Bubiyan joined the Ramsar convention in 2015, and Kuwait won the right to host the squash world cup.

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4 September: What Happened On This Day

A housing allowance for Kuwaitis abroad in 1990, and the first flare of the clean fuels project at Mina Abdullah in 2018.

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2 September: What Happened On This Day

The social insurance law by amiri order, a newspaper putting out its first issue, and a diesel unit at Mina Abdullah refinery.

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1 September: What Happened On This Day

Interest-free loans for marriage and study, Saturday becoming a day off in place of Thursday, and a Kuwaiti patent for desalination.

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31 August: What Happened On This Day

The first insurance law in 1961, Kadhima club registered under number thirty-one, and the death of a sea captain who spent thirty-three years between Shatt Al Arab and Zanzibar.

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30 August: What Happened On This Day

An amiri order set out how the government would work from its temporary seat in 1990, and an emergency conference in Cairo was boycotted by six parties and Iraq.

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29 August: What Happened On This Day

An amiri order dissolved the National Assembly for the first time in 1976, and the Semipalatinsk site opened and closed on the same date.

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