Iran denies UAE teachers entry to Abu Mousa
1992 - More than 100 teachers and their families were stranded in the Gulf waters after they were denied entry to Abu Mousa Island by the Iranian authorities. They returned to Port Khalid in Sharjah after three days in miserable condition with no food and little water. According to Sharjah Police Chief Colonel Mohammad Khalifa Al Muallah, the Arab expatriate teachers and their families, along with nationals and Asian expatriate workers, headed to Abu Mousa Island on Al Khatter boat. They arrived at the destination two hours later, but the Iranian authorities did not admit the boat to the port and refused to allow the teachers entry onto the island until they received visit or residential visas from the Iranian authorities.
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1909 - The first concrete is poured for the Panama Canal.
1950 - Edith Sampson becomes the first black US delegate to the United Nations.
1954 - President Getulio Vargas of Brazil kills himself with a gunshot to the heart.
1964 - Fireworks explosion in Atlatahuca, Mexico, during religious celebration kills 45 people and injures 33.
1965 - United Arab Republic and Yemen sign cease-fire agreement.
1966 - Soviet Union launched its Luna 11 space probe to study the Moon’s chemical composition, gravity, meteorite concentration, and radiation.
1968 - France becomes the world’s fifth thermonuclear power after it successfully tests a hydrogen bomb.
1985 - The pilot of a Chinese military aircraft crash lands his plane in South Korea and asks for political asylum in Taiwan.
1991 - President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hit Florida, US, causing a record $26.5 billion (Dh97.46 billion), killing 65 people.
1995 - China expels US human rights activist Harry Wu, just hours after he was sentenced to 15 years in jail for spying
2004 - Chechen suicide bombers destroy two Russian airliners, killing 90 passengers and crew.
2006 - Pluto is demoted to a ‘dwarf planet’.
2008 - An Iran-bound passenger jet carrying 90 people crashes near Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, killing at least 65 people.
2011 - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs resigns from his CEO post and hands the reins to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook.
2012 - US anti-doping agency strips Lance Armstrong of his record seven Tour de France titles and slaps the cyclist with a lifetime ban.
2014 - Hollywood actor and director Richard Attenborough dies at the age of 90.
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2016 - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake strike in Umbria, Lazio and Marche in central Italy, killing 247 people.
