This Day in Kuwait History

Kuwait City, September 26 (KUNA) -- September 26: 1962 - The death of Judge Abdulaziz Hamada at the age of 68. He was a judge, teacher, imam, and orator, and was the first to propose the establishment of a Waqf (Endowments) Department in 1948 to preserve and invest orphan funds. 1992 - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issued a decree establishing the Kuwait Center for Studies and Research, with the aim of collecting, studying, analyzing, and documenting documents and records related to the Iraqi aggression and its various dimensions, to be utilized in the present and future. 1994 - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah issued a decree establishing a police academy that awards a bachelor’s degree in police sciences after four years of study. 2011 - The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development signed two grant agreements, each valued at eight million US dollars, with the Republic of The Gambia and the Republic of Benin, funded from the resources of the Life Well-Lived Fund. 2012 - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah inaugurated the headquarters building of the Arab Open University in Kuwait. 2018 - Kuwait Airways signed a five-year contract with Korean Air for the operation and service level development of the new passenger terminal (T4). 2019 - The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research announced that its Nanotechnology Program had obtained a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for storing and releasing hydrogen gas at low temperatures, which are the lowest recorded to date. (End) M.B.R. / N.S.N.