2003 - Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief-of-Staff of the UAE Armed Forces, arrived in the Indian capital of New Delhi on his first official visit to the country. Shaikh Mohammad’s three-day visit, at the head of a high-ranking delegation that includes Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Information and Culture, and Shaikh Hamid Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Head of the Economic Department, is expected to boost bilateral ties. Shaikh Mohammad held talks with Indian Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister L.K. Advani and reviewed with him the distinguished ties between the UAE and India in various fields.
Other important events
1859 - Frenchman Charles Blondin makes the first crossing of the Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1876 - Serbia declares war on Turkey.
1894 - Korea declares independence from China.
1930 - Britain recognises independence of Iraq.
1936 - Margaret Mitchell’s epic Gone with the Wind is published.
1937 - The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
1965 - India and Pakistan sign ceasefire agreement.
1975 - Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Bugner in Malaysia.
1998 - Joseph Ejercito Estrada sworn in as president of Philippines.
2005 - The 1.5km Dubai Airport tunnel is inaugurated.
2009 - A Yemenia Airways carrying 154 passengers crashes in the Indian Ocean, killing 153 people.
2010 - Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino is sworn in as the 15th President of the Philippines.
2014 - India launches five foreign satellites.
2015 - An Indonesian military C-130 Hercules crashes into a residential area in Medan, killing all 113 on board.
