Saeed’s house reopens
1996 - Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance and Industry, reopened the house of the late Shaikh Saeed Bin Maktoum. Shaikh Hamdan stressed the importance of “preserving tradition through the renovation of old buildings across the country”. The opening of the house marks the UAE’s Silver Jubilee and the 30th Accession Day of President Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan. One of the key historic sites in the emirate, the 100-year-old two-storey house spreads across about 3,600 square metres in the Shindagha area. A historic national edifice, the house represents the finest in traditional architecture and Arabic and Islamic art. The facade is dominated by what is perhaps the world’s earliest form of air-conditioning, four wind towers.
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1874 - Barbed wire is patented by American Joseph F. Glidden.
1935 - King George II of Greece returns to his homeland after 12 years in exile in London.
1942 - Germans suffer heavy losses in Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Union in the Second World War.
1948 - Ireland votes for independence from United Kingdom.
1955 - The Fokker F-27 Friendship turboprop airliner makes its first flight.
1956 - The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt.
1958 - Mali becomes an autonomous state within French community.
1961 - UN Security Council calls on UN members to make Africa a nuclear weapons-free zone.
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of US president John F. Kennedy, is shot dead.
1975 - Earthquake in eastern Turkey kills at least 574 people.
1979 - The UAE’s first electric cable factory opens in Jebel Ali, Dubai.
1987 - US and the Soviet Union agree to scrap short and medium-range missiles in the first superpower treaty.
1988 - Bangladesh is hit by the worst cyclone, killing more than 5,000 people.
1989 - Elias Hrawi is elected President of Lebanon following assassination of Rene Mouawad.
1991 - Rock star Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS in London.
1999 - The European Union and Mexico reach an accord establishing the most comprehensive free trade deal.
2001 - Malaysian police arrest Nur Misuari, leader of the Moro National Liberation Front.
2006 - China signs a five-year free trade pact with Pakistan.
2007 - Labour leader Kevin Rudd is elected Australia’s Prime Minister.
2010 - Rolls Royce inks $1.2 billion (Dh4.41 billion) Emirates airline deal.
2013 - Iran strikes a historic agreement with the US and five other world powers, accepting strict constraints on its nuclear programme.
2014 - The US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announces his resignation.
