1993 - The people of Sharjah should feel proud of the history of this region because their grandfathers played a constructive role in the life of mankind through the years, His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, said at the opening of the Sharjah Museum. He said that the history of the Arab nation was written by foreigners who were sometimes not accurate while writing about the civilisation of the Arab and the Islamic nations because they were influenced by their religious and national backgrounds.
Other important events
1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X-rays.
1925 - Nellie T. Ross succeeds her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the first female governor in US history.
1940 - Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrates FM radio broadcasting over a long-distance relay network, using five radio stations each in a different US state.
1941 - Amy Johnson, a pioneering British aviator, dies after bailing out of her plane which had run out of fuel.
1953 - Passenger ships Willem Ruys and Orange collide in the Red Sea.
1961 - US severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
1971 - The first One-Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1976 - Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
1978 - Bülent Ecevit becomes Prime Minister of Turkey for the third time.
1991 - Cuba and the Soviet Union sign agreement ending trade on easy terms and artificially low prices.
1996 - Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama announces his resignation.
2000 - Palestinians hoist their flag over a former Israeli military camp following a deal over West Bank land transfers.
2002 - Younes Al Aynaoui becomes the first Arab player to win the Qatar Open after beating Spain’s Felix Mantilla in the final.
2003 - China space mission is successful when its unmanned spaceship Shenzhou IV returns safely to earth.
2006 - His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum is elected Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE.
2007 - Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer bow out on a high as Australia win fifth and final Ashes Test to complete their first Ashes whitewash in 86 years.
2009 - Russia cuts off natural gas to Ukraine, forcing several European countries to dip into their reserves.
2012 - A fight among inmates armed with makeshift knives, clubs and stones kills 31 people in a prison in a drug-plagued state in Altamira, northern Mexico.
2013 - A gunman who barricaded himself inside a townhouse after killing three people in the home is shot to death by police in Aurora, Colorado.
2014 - Portugal’s football legend Eusebio dies at the age of 71.
2016 - Egyptian actor Mamdouh Abdul Aleem dies in Cairo.
