1987 - The six-day impasse over Sharjah was resolved amicably following a meeting between His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi and his brother Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi. The meeting, which was held at Al Maqam Palace in Al Ain under the auspices of President His Highness Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, was the culmination of four days of intense and wide-reaching deliberations by the Supreme Council, keeping uppermost in mind priorities that were best for the federation and the people of the UAE. Under the new arrangement, Shaikh Abdul Aziz stays as Crown Prince of Sharjah. However, he also becomes the Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and in addition enjoys the stature of attending Supreme Council meetings.
Other important events
1868 - American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes is granted a patent for a device he calls a “type-writer”.
1934 - Saudi Arabia and Yemen sign peace treaty after seven-week border war.
1938 - The world’s first oceanarium, ‘Marineland’, opens in Florida, US.
1952 - US Air Force bombs hydroelectric plants in North Korea.
1956 - Colonel Jamal Abdul Nasser is elected President of Egypt.
1979 - West Indies beat England by 92 runs in the final to retain the Prudential cricket World Cup at Lords.
1980 - Sanjay Gandhi, son of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, dies in a plane crash.
1983 - A 21-hour hijack drama ends peacefully in Larnaca, Cyprus, after two teenage Lebanese hijackers surrender to the police.
1985 - Air India Flight 182, named Kanishka, crashes into the North Atlantic off Ireland, killing all 329 on board.
1988 - Landslide hits a Turkish village near the Black Sea killing about 300 people.
1990 - The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty and changes its name from Moldavia to Moldova.
1994 - South Africa reclaims its seat at the United Nations.
1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the 200-metre world record by 19.66 seconds.
2000 - Fifteen tourists are killed and three missing in a fire at a historic Australian hostel north of Brisbane.
2010 - Twelve people are killed when a passenger train slams into a group of young revellers crossing a railway track in Spain.
2015 - Daesh destroys ancient shrines in Syria’s Palmyra city.
