Pakistan wins the Singer Champions Trophy with an emphatic 41-run victory against New Zealand in the final at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. With this win Pakistan ended their 30-month-old title draught at Sharjah. English umpire George Sharpe aided the Wasim Akram-led team with three questionable leg before decisions. Kiwi coach Steve Rixon, however, didn’t seek refuge in the rank bad decisions against his team. Instead he said:” Good and bad decisions are part of the game. We didn’t capitalise on a good start while chasing a modest Pakistani total of 160.” Opener Mark Greatbatch had put New Zealand in a pretty strong position at 98 for three, but they lost the seven remaining wickets for the addition of only 21 runs in 50 balls to crash to a sensational defeat. Despite having packed the side with 11 batsmen they were bowled out for 119 on a wicket which played good. The Man-of-the-Match award had to go to a bowler in a low scoring match and it went to Wasim Akram for taking three wickets with his second spell.
Other important events
1865 The first gold certificates are issued in US.
1889 Brazil’s King Pedro II abdicates and Brazil is proclaimed a republic.
1920 League of Nations Assembly holds first meeting in Geneva.
1926 The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network is launched in the US.
1928 Fascist Grand Council becomes part of Italian constitution.
1935 The Philippines becomes a self-governing commonwealth.
1936 The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1939 US President Franklin Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington.
1940 The Queens-Midtown Tunnel opens in New York City, US.
1941 The first heredity clinic in the US opens at the University of Michigan.
1948 Louis Stephen St. Laurent becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1956 Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia joined the United Nations.
1961 UN bans nuclear arms.
1969 A Vietnam War protest gathers 250,000 people in Washington.
1976 Syrian army takes control of Beirut, bringing a lull to the civil war in Lebanon.
1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 charter flight crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
1985 Britain and Ireland sign an accord on governing Northern Ireland.
1986 UAE and Yugoslavia establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level.
1988 The independent state of Palestine is proclaimed in Algiers.
1993 Gunmen in Lebanon kill a senior aide of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
1994 The German parliament re-elect Helmut Kohl as chancellor.
1995 European Union ambassadors approve a total arms embargo to punish Nigeria’s military regime for the execution of nine political activists.
1996 Voters in Sao Paulo, Brazil, elect Celso Pitta as their first black mayor.
2000 Abu Dhabi Securities Market trading floor opens.
2002 Colombian army troops rescue Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez and another priest after a gun battle with their rebel captors in the Andean mountains.
2005 UN peacekeepers and gang members trade gunfire in the Cite Soleil slum of the Haitian capital, leaving at least two people dead.
2006 RTA announces toll system on Shaikh Zayed Road and Al Garhoud Bridge in Dubai.
2009 Kosovo citizens vote for the first time since the ethnic Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia.
2010 A 28 storey building is gutted by fire leaving 58 dead in Shanghai, China.
2013 Former Cyprus president Glafcos Clerides dies at the age of 94.
2015 Nico Rosberg wins the Brazilian Grand Prix at the Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo.
