Jehangir makes history
1985 - Jehangir Khan won the world open individual squash championship final and became the first player to win the title five times when he beat Ross Norman of New Zealand 9-4, 4-9, 9-5, 9-1 in Cairo. Third-placed Gawain Briars of England had beaten Glen Brumby of Australia 9-7, 9-2, 9-5. There were, however, some worrying minutes among the 89 minutes that it took the Pakistani to end a spirited challenge. Just past the 70-minute mark, Norman looked to have a real chance when he came from 0-6 to 5-6 in the third game and was still somehow matching the champion for pace. Jehangir, however, could not repeat last year’s achievement of becoming the only player ever to win the title without losing a game.
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1783 - British evacuate New York, their last military position in the United States, during the Revolutionary War.
1867 - Dynamite is patented in the US by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel.
1897 - Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.
1952 - The world’s longest-running play, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, opens in London.
1967 - More than 65 people die in Colombian town after eating bread contaminated by insecticide.
1973 - Greece’s President George Papadopoulos is ousted in a bloodless military coup.
1979 - Saudi Arabia retakes the Grand Mosque in Makkah from extremists.
1986 - The Iran-Contra affair erupts that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
1986 - UAE offshore oilfield Abu Al Bukhoosh is raided by unidentified aircraft.
1996 - The Emirates Group Training College is inaugurated.
1998 - President Jiang Zemin arrives in Tokyo for the first visit to Japan by a Chinese head of state since the Second World War.
2006 - UAE opens its first credit bureau.
2007 - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years exile in Saudi Arabia.
2010 - Shaikh Zayed Bridge is inaugurated in Abu Dhabi.
2012 - German Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest triple champion in Formula One history after finishing sixth in Brazilian Grand Prix.
2014 - Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes is in critical condition in a Sydney hospital after being hit by bouncer during a domestic match. He died two days later.
