Leading Islamic bankers honoured
1996 - Delegates from the Islamic banking industry honoured two of the industry’s leading figures at the first Islamic Banking and Finance Forum awards. The awards were presented by Ahmad Al Tayer (left), UAE Minister of State for Finance and Industry, to Shaikh Saleh Kamel, president of Saudi-based Dallah Albaraka Group, who received the Lifetime Achievement award, and Nabeel A. Nassief (right), president and chief executive of the Faysal Islamic Bank of Bahrain, who was named Islamic Banker of the Year. The forum is recognised as the foremost international event for the industry and leading professional services firm Ernst & Young hosted the awards at a gala dinner on the opening day of the third annual forum.
November 11
1836 - Chile declares war on Peru-Bolivia Federation.
1889 - Washington becomes the 42nd state of the United States.
1918 — The First World War ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice in a railroad car at Compiegne, France.
1951 - Juan Peron is elected for his second of three presidential terms in Argentina.
1965 - Ian Smith declares Rhodesian (Zimbabwe) independence, but Britain says the regime is illegal.
1966 - Nasa launches its Gemini 12 manned spacecraft.
1975 - Australian Governor General Sir John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and dissolves parliament.
1979 - Basaam Shaka, Mayor of Nablus, is taken to a maximum security prison by Israeli authorities.
1986 - Two French hostages Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari are freed in Beirut.
1987 - UAE restores diplomatic relations with Egypt.
1992 - The Church of England votes to ordain women as priests.
1993 - At least 15 people are killed when 52 vehicles are involved in a blazing pileup on a highway in western France.
1995 - An avalanche buries a Japanese trekking group in the Mount Everest region in Nepal, killing 26.
1996 - Guatemalan President Alvaro Arzu makes peace with the guerrilla movement, ending 36 years of fighting.
2000 - Some 170 people are killed when an inferno engulfs a funicular train in a tunnel in the Austrian Alps.
2002 - A Fokker-27 aircraft crashes into Manila Bay less than five minutes after take-off from Pasay City, killing 16 people.
2004 - Palestinian president Yasser Arafat dies at the age of 75.
2005 - Mahinda Rajapakse is elected the new President of Sri Lanka.
2008 - Mohammad Nasheed is sworn in as Maldives’ first democratically elected President.
2014 - Dubai’s newest mode of transport, Dubai Tram, is inaugurated.
2015 - Oman’s Salalah Airport is officially inaugurated.
