This Day in Kuwait History
Kuwait City, July 8 (KUNA) -- July 8, 1965: Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah issues a law establishing the Housing and Savings Bank as an independent public institution with legal personality, under the supervision of the Minister of Finance. The bank facilitates housing and agricultural credit for citizens through loans.
1966: Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah issues a law approving the agreement concluded between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia regarding the division of the Neutral Zone, dated July 7, 1965.
1975: Kuwaiti Deputy Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issues a law granting citizens of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates the same treatment as Kuwaiti nationals.
1995: Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issues a law concerning the contribution of the private sector to developing state-owned vacant lands for housing care purposes. The Public Authority for Housing Welfare is to invite local or international companies and institutions to submit bids for developing residential lands prepared by the Kuwait Municipality for this purpose.
1997: Sudanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mustafa Uthman Ismail arrives in Kuwait on the first visit by a Sudanese official since Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
2000: Yusuf Abdulwahab Suwaidan dies at the age of 63. He was one of Kuwait’s most famous football players and the first national to obtain an international refereeing badge in the sport, having begun his refereeing career in 1960.
2003: Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issues four decrees-laws authorizing the establishment of the American University in Kuwait and a private graduate college as a branch of Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands, named Maastricht School of Management – Kuwait. The decrees also authorize the establishment of the Australian College in Kuwait and the American Gulf College, which was later renamed the American University of the Middle East.
2008: Eye disease specialist Dr. Mubarak Al-Ajmi performs a unique procedure in Kuwait and the world, removing a clot from the main artery of the eye network from a 22-year-old girl who suddenly lost vision in one eye due to the clot.
2018: The Court of Cassation rules to modify the appeal judgment issued on November 27, 2017, in the (National Assembly) case. The court sentences 13 defendants to three years and six months in prison, three defendants to two years in prison, exempts 30 defendants from punishment, and acquits the others of the charges against them.
2025: The Ministry of Health announces that a surgical team at Jabir Al-Ahmad Hospital successfully performed the country’s first procedure of its kind to remove a breast cancer tumor using laparoscopic surgery, accompanied by breast reconstruction. The integrated surgical intervention combines tumor removal with cosmetic results, minimizing pain and complications.
2025: Kuwait Petroleum International announces the launch of its operations at the Eastern and Western Birchrim service stations on the highway in Luxembourg, which are the largest in Europe. (End) M.B.R. / N.S.N.
