This Day in Kuwait History
Kuwait City, Aug 8 (KUNA) -- August 8:
1964: Kuwait’s Deputy Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issues a law regulating the legal profession before the courts.
1990: University student Sanaa Al-Fudairi is martyred by Iraqi occupation forces after participating in a peaceful protest in the Jabriya area against the occupation, alongside a group of citizens. She was 21 years old.
1990: The so-called “Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council” decides on an irreversible merger with Kuwait, in an attempt to impose the reality of its aggression and justify its occupation of the State of Kuwait.
1996: Kuwait Oil Company announces the renewal of its agreement with British Petroleum (BP) for a period of three years.
2003: The Childhood and Motherhood Center, affiliated with the Kuwait National Commission for Education, Science and Culture and the Ministry of Education, is recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a “semi-regional center for the Gulf Arab countries.”
2011: Kuwait decides to recall its ambassador to Damascus for consultations following the outbreak of the political crisis in Syria.
2012: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development signs a loan agreement with Vietnam worth four million Kuwaiti dinars to help finance the costs of a multi-component rural development project.
2018: The UN Security Council calls for intensified efforts to activate investigations and resolve the file of missing Kuwaitis and citizens of other countries, as well as missing Kuwaiti property, in Iraq.
2018: Kuwait Airways launches its first flight from the new passenger terminal (T4), bound for Bahrain International Airport.
2020: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters announces that it has won a grant from the Getty Foundation to study the sustainable conservation of the design and execution of the metal cladding covering the spherical structures of the Kuwait Towers, designed by Danish architect Melina Bjørn in 1968. (End) M.B.R. / N.S.N.
