Khalifa for higher military pursuits
2003 - His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, said the UAE’s Higher Military Command was closely following up the international developments in the military field. He said this following the graduation ceremony held at the Khalifa Bin Zayed Airforce College for the 28th and 29th batches of pilot cadets. He pointed out that the Higher Command of the UAE Armed Forces was highly aware of the need to make the necessary adjustments to the country’s military strategy to enable the Armed Forces to deal positively with the ongoing revolution in the field of information and weapons technology. Shaikh Khalifa urged the UAE Armed Forces to continue working hard.
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1841 - The island of Hong Kong is ceded to Great Britain.
1921 - The new Parliament in Ankara declares that the country will be called Turkey.
1936 - Britain’s King George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII.
1937 - Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President of the United States for a second term.
1952 - Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France.
1961 - John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States.
1969 - Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated as US president.
1980 - US President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow.
1982 - The new Sharjah Continental Hotel is officially opened.
1986 - Lesotho’s military forces seize power in a bloodless coup, ending Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan’s 20 years of controversial rule.
1987 - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite disappears in Beirut, Lebanon, while attempting to negotiate the release of western hostages.
1991 - In Moscow, hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens protest bloody crackdown on Lithuania and demand resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1993 - Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd US President.
2001 - Vice-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is sworn in as new Philippines President.
2002 - Two US Marines are killed when their helicopter crashes in a rugged mountain region in Afghanistan.
2003 - Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic surrenders to the UN International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
2005 - George W. Bush is sworn in as US President for a second term.
2007 - Paul Casey wins the title of Abu Dhabi Golf Championship.
2009 - Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th US President.
2014 - A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 13 people in a market next to Pakistan’s military headquarters in Rawalpindi.
2016 - Armed militants storm a university in Pakistan, killing 21 people.
2017 - Donald Trump is sworn in as 45th US President in Washington.
