1988 The Dubai Medical College for Girls was officially inaugurated by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Minister of Finance and Industry and President of the Dubai Department of Health and Medical Services. The college located in Lootah City, which now has 80 full-time students, was set up by the prominent Dubai businessman Haji Saeed Lootah in October 1986. Shaikh Hamdan praised the development of health and medical teaching facilities in the UAE over the past two decades after unveiling the commemorative plaque. He said that it was a positive sign that the college had been established with the prime aim of providing higher education to women in medicine. The teaching and training facilities at these hospitals will be provided to some 44 girls starting later this year. On completion of their four-year intensive course, successful students will be awarded an MBBCh degree. The course normally takes six years to complete. The college provides education in English to UAE students as well as those from other parts of the world.
Other important events
1854 A sewing machine that can stitch buttonholes is patented by Charles Miller of St Louis.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his telephone.
1911 American inventor Willis Farsworth patents the first coin-operated locker.
1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation takes place, between New York City and London.
1935 Restoration of Saar to Germany marks beginning of German expansion.
1941 British troops invade Italian-occupied Ethiopia in Second World War.
1947 Terrorist attack on police headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay, sparks bloody five-month civil war.
1951 Iran’s Prime Minister Ali Razmara is assassinated.
1982 UAE and Tunisia sign an agreement to set up $100 million (Dh357 million) joint investment bank in Tunisia.
1987 Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs.
1988 Three Palestinian commandos hijack a bus and kill a hostage in Israel before police stormed the bus and shot them dead.
1989 Iran suspends diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses.
1991 Iraq frees 2,000 captives near Kuwaiti border.
1993 Afghanistan’s rival leaders sign a peace accord to end months of fighting in Kabul.
1994 Multinational African army installs new government in Liberia.
2002 Hindu-Muslim rioting in the western Indian state of Gujarat leaves more than 600 people dead.
2003 Vaclav Klaus becomes President of the Czech Republic.
2005 A fire set by rioting gang members kills 134 inmates of a provincial jail in the Dominican Republic.
2006 A series of coordinated bombings rock a packed railway station and crowded temple in Varanasi, India, killing 20 people.
2007 A Garuda Airlines Boeing 737-400 burst into flames after careening off a runway in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 passengers.
2008 Dubai Cultural and Art Authority (now Dubai Culture) is established.
2009 Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigns to try to pave the way for the formation of a national unity government with Hamas.
2010 Yas Marina Circuit’s drag racing centre officially opens in Abu Dhabi.
2013 An Italian court sentences former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to a year in prison over the publication of leaked transcripts from a police wiretap.
2016 Tennis star Maria Sharapova announces that she failed a drug test at the Australian Open.
