In Kuwait
1980 — The seventh Asian Cup opens in Kuwait
The seventh AFC Asian Cup began in Kuwait with ten teams in two groups. Kuwait opened with a 1–1 draw against the United Arab Emirates, Saad Al-Houti scoring in the eighteenth minute and Ahmad Shanbi in the fortieth. The tournament ran to 30 September, and Kuwait took the title after beating Iran 2–1 in the semi-final.
2016 — The Al-Babtain chair at Oxford
Oxford University announced that the name of the Kuwaiti poet Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain would be given to its oldest chair of Arabic, the Laudian professorship. William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, founded the chair in 1636 and endowed it permanently in 1640, and its first holder, Edward Pococke, held it for fifty-five years. The professorship has been attached to St John’s College since 1881.
2018 — An Arab meteorology day, on a Kuwaiti proposal
Kuwait’s civil aviation meteorology department announced approval of a proposal put by the Kuwaiti delegation to the Arab League, adopting 15 September each year as Arab Meteorology Day. The deputy director general, Khaled Al-Shuaibi, said the date was chosen in reference to the 1970 decision establishing the permanent Arab committee for meteorology and climate.
2019 — An earth tremor north of Kabd
The national seismic network at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research recorded an earthquake of magnitude 3.1 north of Kabd and south of Jahra. The network’s supervisor, Dr Abdullah Al-Enezi, said the tremor struck at 6.34am at a depth of six kilometres, and was felt by some residents in Jahra.
2021 — The Sahel app is launched
The government formally launched the Sahel government services app at the first digital transformation forum at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre, under the patronage of the prime minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid, represented by the deputy prime minister and defence minister Sheikh Hamad Al-Jaber, with the minister of state for communications Dr Rana Al-Fares attending. Al-Jaber said the greatest obstacle to digital transformation was eliminating bureaucracy.
2024 — KuwaitSat-1 photographs the two holy mosques
For the anniversary of the Prophet’s birth, the team behind the KuwaitSat-1 satellite, funded by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, announced two images of the two holy mosques from space. The first shows the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifa; the second shows the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Mount Uhud to its northeast, and dry valleys including Wadi Al-Aqiq and Wadi Al-Baida.
2025 — Kuwait is represented at arts festivals only through the Council
The assistant secretary-general for arts at the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, Musaed Al-Zamel, stated that no theatrical, musical or cinematic work and no artist may represent Kuwait at Gulf, Arab or international festivals except through official channels. Any participation outside that framework, he said, represents its own owners or their companies, not the state.
In the world
2000 — The Sydney Olympics open
The twenty-seventh summer Olympic Games opened at Stadium Australia in Sydney, with the ceremony watched by some 3.7 billion people in 220 countries, according to the Australian Olympic Committee. It began with the horseman Steve Jefferys riding into the stadium on his horse Ammo, and ended with the runner Cathy Freeman, an Aboriginal Australian, lighting the Olympic flame set above a waterfall at the northern end of the stadium.
2017 — Cassini dives into Saturn
The Cassini probe entered Saturn’s atmosphere at 6.31am US Eastern time, and its signal was lost one minute later. The final signal reached Earth about eighty-three minutes afterwards, because of Saturn’s distance. Before burning up, the probe pushed its thrusters to full power to keep its antenna pointed at Earth. The end came one month short of the twentieth anniversary of its launch.
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