1987 - League champions Al Wasl were crowned UAE National Football Champions and ended their season earlier in the evening on a winning note. A 3-2 win over Al Sha’ab gave the new champions a total of 52 points, 10 ahead of nearest rivals, holders Sharjah. Shaikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Football Association, presented Al Wasl captain Fahd Khamis with the trophy and each player with a gold medal. Striker Zuhair Bakheet finished the season as the league’s top scorer after cracking home 24 goals for the champions. Sharjah’s Abdul Aziz Mohammad was second on the scorers’ list with 22. Al Wasl’s home win over Al Sha’ab rounded off a dream season, with the club now set to take the President’s Cup and make it a double winning year.
Other important events
1845 - Texas is admitted as 28th US state.
1857 - British and French forces take Canton in China.
1891 - Thomas Alva Edison patents transmission of signals electrically.
1911 - Mongolia gains independence.
1920 - Yugoslav government bans Communist Party.
1921 - United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan sign the Washington naval treaty.
1922 - The Dutch Constitution is proclaimed.
1940 - Germany began dropping incendiary bombs on London during the Second World War.
1972 - An Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes into the Florida Everglades near Miami International Airport, killing 101 of the 176 people aboard.
1973 - Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos ends his elected term and begins to rule on basis of a takeover decree.
1975 - A bomb explodes near the TWA baggage reclaim terminal at LaGuardia Airport, New York, killing 11 people.
1984 - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi wins a landslide victory in general elections.
1986 - Former British prime minister Harold Macmillan dies at the age of 92.
1992 - Premier Milan Panic is ousted by parliament in a vote to strengthen Serbia’s hardline President Slobodan Milosevic.
1994 - A Turkish Airlines jet crashes in Turkey with 76 people aboard.
2001 - Fireworks spark a massive fire in downtown Lima, Peru, killing 291 people.
2002 - Mwai Kibaki becomes Kenyan President ending 40 years of Kenya African National Union’s rule.
2007 - Dubai explorer Adrian Hayes finally reaches the South Pole after 47 days of travelling on foot.
2012 - New Delhi gang-rape victim dies in Singapore.
2013 - Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a head injury in a skiing accident in the French Alps.
2015 - A Taliban suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills 22 people after crashing into the main gate of a government office in Mardan, Pakistan.
2016 - US expels 35 Russian agents for cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 presidential campaign.
