This Day in Kuwait History

Kuwait City, Sept 19 (KUNA) – Historical events:

1960 – The Kuwait Municipality distributed 32 plots of the South Shuikh residential area to their rightful owners.

1962 – The Kuwaiti government began supplying fresh water from the Al-Ruwaidah fields to Kuwaiti cities.

1977 – Kuwait’s Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, issued Decree-Law No. 124 of 1977, terminating the concession granted to the Independent American Oil Company under the agreement dated June 28, 1948. Consequently, all rights, funds, assets, facilities, and operations, including refining facilities and other assets related to the concession, reverted to the state.

2000 – Former Member of Parliament Mohammed Hamad Al-Barak passed away at the age of 70. He had participated in parliamentary life since the first National Assembly in 1963 and served as a member of the Constitution Revision Committee established in 1980.

2001 – The Ministry of Interior inaugurated the DNA Forensic Laboratory at the General Directorate of Criminal Evidence, the first of its kind in the Middle East.

2001 – The Kuwait Olympic Committee, in cooperation with the Qatar Olympic Committee and the General Authority for Youth and Sports in Bahrain, signed a memorandum of understanding allowing Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) athletes to compete in GCC member states as local players.

2012 – Kuwait won the “E-Government Shield” award presented by the Arab League’s Arab Organization for E-Government, following the victory of its Facebook page as the best interactive platform on social media in the category of official and public government entities.

2013 – Kuwait and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed a cooperation agreement in Vienna, regulating protection activities in nuclear applications in medical and industrial fields, environmental protection, food and water security, technical capacity building, education, training, and raising public awareness.

2013 – Kuwait and Iraq deposited with the United Nations the bilateral agreement on regulating maritime navigation in the Khawr Abd Allah, which had been ratified by both countries.

2019 – The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development signed a grant agreement with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) worth three million US dollars to contribute to providing clean and safe water to residents in two areas of the Gaza Strip. (End) M.B.R. / N.S.N.