1993 - Dubai’s spanking new landmark, the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club, was officially inaugurated by Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Minister of Defence. After opening the complex, Shaikh Mohammad toured the facility, and watched a sensational fireworks display that highlighted the magnificent landscape of the golf course and the impressive architecture of the clubhouse with its floodlit, sail-shaped facade. The Dubai Creek complex represents a lush green landscape created beside the creek, an outstanding feat of engineering involving the reshaping of 80 hectares of desert. A Government of Dubai project, the Creek complex is expected to be a major attraction in the city, and a major enhancement to the emirate’s business and tourism infrastructure.
Other important events
1547 - England’s King Henry VIII dies and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Edward VI.
1871 - France surrenders in the Franco-Prussian War.
1885 - British relief force reaches Khartoum, and the Sudan is evacuated.
1909 - US control of Cuba ends.
1911 - Frenchman Henri Rougier wins first Rally of Monte Carlo.
1912 - A lynch mob drags former president General Eloy Alfaro and his lieutenants through the streets of Quito, Ecuador, and burns them to death.
1932 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai in China.
1949 - UN Security Council adopts resolution to establish a ceasefire in Indonesia.
1961 - Rwanda’s provisional government proclaims republic.
1973 - A ceasefire officially goes into effect in the Vietnam War.
1981 - UAE and Sweden sign agreement to cooperate in agriculture and fisheries.
1982 - US General James Dozier is freed by Red Brigades in Padua, Italy.
1986 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes 75 seconds after lift-off, killing all crew members.
1995 - US and Vietnam finally bury the hatchet nearly 20 years after the war.
1997 - Algeria’s top trade union leader Abdelhak Benhamouda is killed in central Algiers.
1999 - India and Pakistan conduct their first cricket match in the subcontinent in 12 years.
2001 - A Ukrainian vessel sinks in the Black Sea, killing at least 14 people.
2006 - Insulin inhaler to fight diabetes gets Food and Drug Administration’s approval in US.
2007 - Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein votes ‘yes’ for Police Service of Northern Ireland in the British-run province.
2013 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands announces her abdication from the throne, ending her reign of 33 years.
2014 - District One of the Dh30 billion Mohammad Bin Rashid City project is officially inaugurated in Dubai.
2016 - Sudan opens its border with South Sudan for the first time since the south’s secession from Sudan in 2011.
