1993 A rough sea and strong winds posed a very tricky challenge for the competitors in the second Abu Dhabi Offshore Powerboat Race, but Saeed Al Tayer and Shaikh Saeed Al Maktoum, in Victory 60, showed tactical superiority to win the top prize of Dh150,000 for the Class M inboard race. The Hamly brothers (Rashid and Obaid), in Abu Dhabi Aviation boat, retained their hold over the Class S in Abu Dhabi, winning the race comfortably after close challenger Victory Marine 3, crewed by Suhail Jumah Al Tayer and Jabber Mohammad Jabber Al Tayer, went out in the penultimate lap. The all-conquering Victory team held sway from the start as Victory 1, Victory 5, Victory 60 and Victory 4 stayed close to each other. Victory 1, crewed by Hamad Buhaleiba and Randy Seism, was leading the pack until the third round but engine trouble forced them out after that. Saeed Al Tayer and Sheikh Saeed then went full throttle in the last two laps to leave behind Victory 5 and Victory 4 for the championship and a Range Rover.
Other important events
1770 Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay, Australia.
1783 Tipu Sultan of Mysore forces British to surrender Bednore.
1833 First US tax-supported public library is founded in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1865 General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the American Civil War.
1918 Latvia proclaims independence.
1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway during the Second World War.
1957 Suez Canal is cleared for all shipping.
1963 Winston Churchill is made an honorary US citizen.
1967 The Boeing 737 made its first flight.
1968 Martin Luther King Jr., is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
1974 India, Pakistan and Bangladesh sign agreement to repatriate 195 Pakistani prisoners of war.
1978 Troops in Somalia crush attempted coup by army officers.
1988 China’s National Peoples Congress names Li Peng as premier.
1989 Sixteen people are reported killed as Soviet troops rush crowd of protesters in a central square of Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
1990 A three-decade ban on political activity is lifted in Nepal.
1991 Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 Former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega is convicted in Miami of eight drug and racketeering charges.
1995 President Alberto Fujimori wins a second term in Peru’s first peaceful polls since 1980.
1997 Botanical garden opens in Sharjah.
1999 Niger President Ebrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated at Niamey airport.
2003 US forces take control of Baghdad, ending Saddam Hussain’s rule over Iraq.
2005 Haitian police shoot and kill Remissainthe Ravix, a prominent rebel leader.
2006 A capsule carrying Brazil’s first astronaut, along with a Russian and an American, lands in the Kazakh steppe after separating from the international space.
2007 Iran announces a dramatic expansion of uranium enrichment, saying it has begun operating 3,000 centrifuges.
2012 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes historic trip to China and signs two nuclear agreements.
2014 A bomb blast at a fruit and vegetable market in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing at least 22 people.
2013 One dead and six more are injured after a fishing boat explodes at the port in Ras Al Khaimah.
2017 Bomb explodes at two Egyptian churches of Mar Girgis church and Saint Mark church, killing 43 people.
