September 3
1783 Treaty of Paris between US and Great Britain officially ends the Revolutionary War.
1871 Japan and China sign the Treaty of Tianjin.
1879 Afghans massacre British legation at Kabul, leading to British occupation of the city.
1904 Japan defeats Russian forces at Liaoyang in China.
1916 The first German Zeppelin bomber is shot down over England.
1925 The first international handball game is played in Germany.
1935 British driver Malcolm Campbell set a new world land speed record of 484.62km/h
1939 The first and only Yugoslavian Grand Prix is held at Kalemagdan Park in Belgrade.
1943 The British 8th Army invades Italy during World War II, the same day Italy signs a secret armistice with the Allies.
1945 Singapore is returned to British control after being occupied by the Japanese since 1942.
1962 Katanga government accepts UN Secretary General U Thant’s plan for Congolese reunification.
1967 Nguyen Van-thieu is elected president of South Vietnam under a new constitution.
1976 US Viking II spacecraft lands on Mars.
1984 Typhoon Ike hits the southern Philippines, killing more than 4,000 people.
1987 Colonel Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, President of Burundi is overthrown by the Central African country’s military leadership.
1992 Kevin Maxwell, youngest son of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, becomes Britain’s biggest-ever bankrupt.
1996 Ruth Perry becomes the first female head of state of Liberia.
1997 A Vietnam Airlines plane crashes at Phnom Penh airport, killing 65 people.
1998 Swissair jet crashes into rough seas off Canada’s Atlantic coast, killing all 229 people on board.
2004 Commandos storm a school in southern Russian town of Beslan. More than 330 adults and children are killed.
2006 Europe’s first lunar mission crash lands on the moon.
2007 British troops withdraw from Basra city in Iraq.
2008 Dubai government launches Noor Dubai campaign for ‘world free from blindness’.
2010 UPS Cargo plane crashes near Dubai-Al Ain road in Dubai after fire in the cockpit occur killing the two pilots on board.
2012 An explosives-laden car rams into a US Consulate vehicle in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing two people.
2015 An overloaded wooden boat believed to be carrying dozens of Indonesian illegal immigrants sinks off the coast of Malaysia, killing at least 14 people.
HIGHLIGHT
2002
UAE calls to protect planet at Earth Summit
The UAE called for the countries of the world to live up to their responsibilities toward the environment and each other and to cooperate to end poverty, desertification, drought, social problems, unemployment, debt and aggression and crimes committed against humans in order to create a fair and just international socio-economic environment. Addressing the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, His Highness Shaikh Hamad Bin Mohammad Al Sharqi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Fujairah, said these factors, including occupation and illegal settlements, were obstacles to sustainable development. In a wide-ranging and pertinent speech, the head of the UAE delegation took strong stand on international concerns such as the need for security and peace in the Middle East and the burden placed on developing countries by the industrial nations and national issues including the development of women in the UAE and the protection of endangered species. Shaikh Hamad also emphasised the common but differentiated responsibilities every country had to protecting the planet and sustainable development.
