June 29, 1998: Mohammad receives honorary doctorate

Mohammad receives honorary doctorate

1998 - Major General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister, received an honorary doctorate in education, culture, economy, politics, poetry, sports and sociology from Wern-hagen University in Germany. The doctorate was awarded to Shaikh Mohammad during a meeting with the university delegation headed by Professor Dr Helmut Huer, Chancellor of the University, in London. Shaikh Mohammad is the first senior Arab official to receive such recognition from a German university. “This is a decoration for the scientific and cultural movement in the UAE,” Shaikh Mohammad said.

June 29

1938 - Olympic National Park is established in Washington.

1939 - The first commercial flight from US to Europe is completed when the Dixie Clipper lands in Lisbon, Portugal.

1943 - US forces land on New Guinea in the Pacific in the Second World War.

1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid.

1956 - With a leap of seven feet, 5/8 inches, Charles Dumas becomes the first high jumper to clear the seven-foot barrier.

1974 - Isabel Peron is sworn in as the first woman President of Argentina.

2001 - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is unanimously re-elected to a second term.

2006 - Female voters in Kuwait cast ballots in parliamentary elections for the first time.

2007 - India’s Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batsman to score 15,000 runs in one-day International matches.