Liverpool lift Dubai Cup after penalty shootout
1986 - Liverpool lifted the Dubai Super Cup after sinking Celtic 5-3 in a penalty shootout. Fifteen thousand fans saw Scottish marksman Mo Johnston thump his spot-kick against a post to end the “Best of British battle” at Al Wasl Stadium in Dubai, in favour of the English champions after the scores had ended 1-1 at full-time. “It was just one of those things,” said second-half substitute Johnston whose penalty miss was matched by teammate Owen Archdeacon seconds later. Liverpool were right on target in the best-of-five shoot-out with Steve McMahon, Jim Beglin, Ronnie Whelan and Steve Nicol all netting from the spot while only Paul McStay and Peter Grant grabbed goals for Celtic in the breathtaking finale.
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1913 - Gaston Doumergue becomes Prime Minister of France.
1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz is elected Polish President.
1946 - Indian Constituent Assembly is boycotted by Muslim League.
1966 - Barbados joins the United Nations.
1971 - UAE joins the United Nations.
1972 - North Vietnam and Soviet Union conclude agreement for economic and military aid to Hanoi.
1979 - Dubai’s first multi-storey municipal car park is inaugurated in Deira.
1981 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky restore relations at a mini-summit in Abu Dhabi.
1985 - Former Argentine president Jorge Videla is sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the war against communist guerrillas.
1988 - West Germans demand curbs on Nato military flights over their densely populated country.
1989 - Czechoslovakia’s hardline Communist President Gustav Husak resigns after swearing in a new government.
1992 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana of Britain announce their separation but have no plans to divorce.
1994 - At least 310 people, mostly children, die in blaze while watching a cultural show in a cinema in China.
1997 - Spain softens its long-standing claim to the British colony of Gibraltar, saying it can accept shared sovereignty.
2002 - The Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement sign a peace agreement to end the rebel group’s 26-year-old separatist insurgency in Aceh province.
2005 - World’s largest Islamic bond worth $2.8 billion is issued for Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation.
2006 - US Congress gives its final approval to landmark legislation allowing exports of civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India for the first time in 30 years.
2009 - Jordan’s King Abdullah II names former royal court minister Samir Rifai as the new Prime Minister.
2011 - At least 89 people are killed when an early-morning fire guts AMRI Hospital in Kolkata, India.
2015 - Sharjah becomes the world’s first baby-friendly city.
