2003 - Shaikh Hamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Economic Department, officially opened the Shaikh Zayed Hospital in Kosovo, which was established and built by the UAE Armed Forces serving in the United Nations peace-keeping forces in Kosovo, Kfor, in cooperation with the UAE Red Crescent Authority (RCA). Shaikh Hamed said the UAE always provided medical care to Kosovo in line with the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The President wanted the UAE Armed Forces and the RCA to work together to establish a field hospital at the UAE Armed Forces Camp in Kukes, Kosovo, to provide health care and shelter to refugees.
Other important events
1793 - France’s King Louis XVI, condemned for treason, is executed on the guillotine.
1908 - New York City women are prohibited from smoking in public.
1919 - Sinn Fein Congress in Dublin, Ireland, adopts Declaration of Independence.
1924 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin dies of a stroke at age 55.
1949 - Chiang Kai-Shek resigns from China presidency following Nationalist Party reversals.
1950 - Author George Orwell dies in London.
1954 - The first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus is launched at Groton, Connecticut, US.
1970 - World’s largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes its first commercial flight.
1972 - Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states in the Indian union.
1976 - The supersonic Concorde jet is put into commercial service by Britain and France.
1977 - US President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.
1986 - A car bomb blast kills 27 in east Beirut, near the office of President Ameen Gemayel’s Phalange Party.
1990 - East Germany’s Communist Party expels Egon Krenz, the leader who oversaw opening of Berlin Wall.
1994 - Syrian President Hafez Al Assad’s eldest son Bassel is killed in a car crash.
1996 - Palestine Liberation Organisation chief Yasser Arafat becomes the first democratically elected leader of Palestinians.
1998 - Pope John Paul II arrives on a historic five-day visit to Cuba.
2000 - Former Lebanese prime minister Saeb Salam dies of heart failure at the age of 95.
2005 - A car bomb outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad kills at least 14.
2006 - Ebrahim Rugova, the first president of Kosovo, dies at the age of 62.
2013 - US President Barack Obama takes his second oath of office at the US Capitol in Washington.
2015 - The US and Cuba open two days of historic talks to end decades of Cold War-era animosity in Havana.
2017 - A bomb blast at a market in Parachinar city in Pakistan kills at least 24 people.
