On This Day
10 September: What Happened on This Day
The Arab League force reaches Kuwait in 1961, and the first Kuwaiti pilot dies in 2015.
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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On This Day
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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8 September: What Happened On This Day
Kuwait House opened in Dokki in 1958, and the youth handball team took an Asian title in 2000.
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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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6 September: What Happened On This Day
A 1961 law split the country into ten constituencies, and a planning ministry replaced its council in 1976.
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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.
