November 8, 2001: Shaikh Mohammad receives award

Shaikh Mohammad receives award

2001 - General Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister, was presented with a ‘Rings of Friendship Award for Inspirational Leadership’ by the American Business Council in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. The presentation was made during the American Business Council’s annual gala dinner by its president, Mac McClelland, who praised Shaikh Mohammad’s inspirational leadership and vision. Shaikh Mohammad had, he said, created an environment of peace, prosperity, security and stability in which diverse expatriate communities have been able to live and work. Shaikh Mohammad thanked the Council and said that Dubai and the UAE would continue to be a safe and happy place where everybody could do business. He thanked everybody for their trust and confidence in the UAE people and said that the UAE would continue to be worthy of that trust.

November 8

Louvre Museum in Paris opens to the public.

Abraham Lincoln is re-elected as President of the United States for a second term.

Montana becomes the 41st state of the United States.

Grover Cleveland becomes the first president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, German physicist, discovers X-rays.

Vladimir I. Lenin becomes chief commissar in Russia and Leon Trotsky is named premier.

Adolf Hitler stages unsuccessful coup in Munich, Germany.

New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected US president.

UN General Assembly demands that Soviet troops withdraw from Hungary.

John F. Kennedy beats Richard M. Nixon to the US presidency.

Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts becomes the first black to be elected to the US Senate by popular vote.

Amir Abbas Hoveyda, Iran’s Prime Minister for most of the past 13 years is arrested.

A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army kills 11 people at a memorial service for Britain’s war dead in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

US President George Bush orders 200,000 more US troops to the Gulf.

Alexander Dubcek, leader of ‘Prague Spring’ reform movement, dies in a Prague hospital.

France arrests 95 people in its biggest sweep against militants.

The Sharjah Natural History Museum opens in Sharjah.

Al Qasba Canal linking Khalid and Al Khan lagoons opens in Sharjah.

A car bomb detonates in a residential compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing at least 17 people.

In a suicide attack on the Pakistani military, a man with explosives blows himself up, killing at least 42 troops.

At least 16 people are killed in a horrific stampede at a religious event in Haridwar, India.

Nigeria wins the Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Abu Dhabi.

Iran appoints its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming Marzieh Afkham to head its embassy in Malaysia.