Dubai signs Silicon Oasis project
2003 - Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority signed an agreement with the American firm CH2M Hill International Ltd to prepare a masterplan for the Dubai Silicon Oasis project. The contract for the masterplan, which will be finalised this year, was signed by Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Dubai Silicon Oasis chairman, and Robert Sheh, CH2M Hill president. In a written message on this occasion, General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Defence Minister, said the project reflects the future outlook for Dubai and the UAE in their quest for universality through technology and knowledge economics. Shaikh Mohammad directed Dubai Silicon Oasis to appoint an advisory board.
April 21
1789 - John Adams is sworn in as the first US Vice-President.
1898 - United States recognises independence of Cuba.
1918 - German air ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is shot down and killed over the Western Front during a dogfight.
1926 - Birth of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
1956 - Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign military alliance in Jeddah.
1960 - Brazil moves its capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia.
1967 - Army officers led by Col Georgios Papadopoulos seize power in Greece.
1972 - Two US Apollo 16 astronauts spend seven hours exploring highlands of the Moon.
1975 - South Vietnam’s President Nguyen van Thieu resigns.
1980 - South Yemen’s Marxist President Abdul Fateh Esmail resigns and is succeeded by Prime Minister Ali Nasser Mohammad.
1981 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher makes a historic visit to the UAE.
1987 - A bomb blast kills at least 150 people and injures 200 in Colombo.
1989 - Thousands of students, shouting for democracy and human rights, march from campuses to converge on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.
1990 - Lech Walesa, hero of Solidarity’s 10-year struggle for power, is re-elected as the union’s leader.
1992 - Robert Alton Harris is put to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin prison in US — first execution in 25 years.
1993 - The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail.
2004 - A suicide attack on Saudi police headquarters kills at least nine people.
2008 - US becomes the second country with which the UAE signs an agreement on peaceful nuclear energy cooperation.
2010 - An explosion rocks BP’s offshore oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers.
2015 - Toppled Egyptian leader Mohammad Mursi is sentenced to 20 years in prison.
2016 - Pop superstar Prince dies at home aged 57.
