Zayed University launches E-MBA programme
2001 - Zayed University launched a new executive MBA programme in electronic commerce (E-MBA), the first activity under a partnership agreement with the Dubai Technology, Electronic and Media Free Zone Authority. Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and President of Zayed University, said: “The E-MBA programme has been planned and is being implemented with special attention to quality, careful articulation with the UAE business community, clear commitment to the principal tenets of life-long learning, and the prospect of networking with some of the prominent universities of the world.” Shaikh Nahyan made his comments during an inauguration ceremony at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel.
February 13
1689 - English Parliament adopts a Bill of Rights.
1795 - The first US state university opens in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
1856 - Britain annexes Oudh, in India, further increasing hostility to British rule.
1920 - The League of Nations recognises Switzerland’s neutrality.
1935 - American cardiac surgeon Claude Beck carries out the first surgical operation to successfully relieve angina in humans in Cleveland, Ohio.
1945 - Allied forces capture Budapest, Hungary, in the Second World War.
1960 - France detonates its first atomic bomb.
1976 - Nigerian junta leader General Murtala Ramat Mohammad is assassinated.
1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as Soviet leader.
1990 - The American space probe Voyager I snaps a photo of the entire solar system.
1994 - Somali gunmen kidnap two Italian aid workers and an Egyptian UN peacekeeper is killed.
2000 - Top seed Nicolas Kiefer lifts the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Open trophy.
2003 - Police arrest a Venezuelan man carrying a live hand grenade at Britain’s Gatwick airport.
2005 - A Shiite bloc wins Iraq’s first election since Saddam Hussain’s overthrow.
2006 - RAK Airways is launched in Ras Al Khaimah.
2008 - One of the world’s most wanted and elusive terrorists, Imad Mugniyeh, is killed in Syria.
2010 - A bomb rips through a packed restaurant in the Indian city of Pune, killing at least eight.
2015 - Taliban militants storm a Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 18 people.
