Kuwait - Notable Historical Events
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Kuwait - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1960-09-14 |
Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) |
1961-06-19 |
Kuwait declares independence from UK |
1961-06-24 |
Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait |
1961-06-25 |
Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees) |
1962-11-11 |
Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. |
1962-11-16 |
Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic) |
1963-05-14 |
Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations |
1964-08-14 |
Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market |
1972-10-27 |
OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all Western oil interests operating within Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia |
1973-10-16 |
The Gulf Six (Iran, Iraq, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar) unilaterally raise the posted price of Saudi Light marker crude-oil by 17 percent |
1973-12-17 |
Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait |
1974-01-29 |
Kuwait announces 60 percent government participation in BP-Gulf concession |
1975-12-01 |
Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization |
1977-12-31 |
Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait |
1978-02-08 |
Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait |
1983-12-12 |
A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait |
1984-12-04 |
Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers. |
1986-07-03 |
Kuwait's National Assembly (Majlis al Umma) dissolves |
1990-07-17 |
Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq |
1990-07-24 |
US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait |
1990-07-25 |
US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute |
1990-08-01 |
Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait |
1990-08-02 |
Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia |
1990-08-03 |
Radio Kuwait resigns air, due to Iraqi invasion |
1990-08-08 |
Iraq annexes Kuwait as its 19th province |
1990-08-16 |
Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq |
1990-08-24 |
Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City |
1990-09-06 |
US citizen is shot in Kuwait; oil markets surge on aggressive U.S. statements toward Iraq |
1990-09-09 |
George H W Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Helsinki & urge Iraq to leave Kuwait |
1990-09-13 |
Iraqi troops storm residence of French ambassador in Kuwait |
1990-09-24 |
Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President Mitterrand called the action a violation of international law; a U.S. warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah |
1990-09-27 |
Deposed emir of Kuwait address UN General Assembly |
1990-09-28 |
Exiled emir of Kuwait visits White House |
1990-10-01 |
US President Bush at UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait |
1990-10-01 |
Saddam Hussein says he may be willing to negotiate the occupation of Kuwait and would consider foreign participation in negotiations |
1990-10-11 |
UK Foreign Secretary Hurd says force would be used if Iraq does not withdrawal from Kuwait |
1990-11-08 |
Unconfirmed rumors emerge that Bush might announce an airlift of supplies to US embassy in Kuwait, which could ultimately trigger a military clash |
1990-11-26 |
Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait |
1990-11-26 |
US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1 |
1990-11-29 |
UN Security Council approves US-sponsored resolution authorizing the use of force in the Persian Gulf if Iraq does not withdrawal from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991 |
1990-12-12 |
US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait |
1990-12-22 |
Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait |
1991-01-15 |
UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) |
1991-01-16 |
US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US time) |
1991-01-23 |
World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait |
1991-02-22 |
Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal |
1991-02-23 |
US insists Iraq publicly announce it is leaving Kuwait by 12 PM EST |
1991-02-27 |
Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat and Kuwait is re-taken by the US |
1991-02-28 |
United Nations troops move into Kuwait City and Saddam Hussein orders troops out of Kuwait; Iraqi soldiers ignite Kuwaiti oil fields during their retreat |
1991-03-01 |
US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens |
1991-03-05 |
Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait |
1991-03-07 |
Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait |
1991-03-14 |
Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave |
1991-03-24 |
Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait |
1991-03-31 |
The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait. |
1991-06-03 |
Kuwait asks Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to produce 800,000 bbl/d (130,000 m3/d) of oil on its behalf |
1991-11-01 |
Last of Kuwait oil well fires extinguished by well control teams |
1993-06-26 |
The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H.W. Bush in April in Kuwait. |
1997-06-04 |
UN Security renews its "oilforfood" initiative whereby Iraq may sell $2 billion worth of oil to buy food, medicine and other necessities to alleviate civilian suffering under the sanctions imposed when it invaded Kuwait in 1990 |
2001-06-11 |
Saudi Arabia seizes ownership, effective June 7, of the 1.6-million-barrels-per-day IPSA pipeline that had carried Iraqi crude oil to the Saudi Red Sea port of Mu'jiz prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait |
2005-03-07 |
Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait. |
2005-05-16 |
Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote. |
2010-08-19 |
Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. |
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Kuwait - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1902-01-12 |
Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud, Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia) |
1915-06-18 |
Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait) |
1926-06-29 |
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006) |
1926-06-29 |
Emir of Kuwait, |
1928-05-04 |
Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak of Egypt/Nursing Shortage/Kuwait Ten Years Later |
1934-05-20 |
Charles Moskos, Chemical Plant Insecurity/They Didn't Ask, He Didn't Tell/The Kuwait of Africa |
1938-08-30 |
Peter Houghton, The U.S. Border Patrol/The Pump/Kuwait: Ten Years Later |
1942-01-01 |
Nahed Sherif, Kuwait Connection |
1946-05-11 |
Robert Jarvik, The U.S. Border Patrol/The Pump/Kuwait: Ten Years Later |
1947-01-01 |
Jon Corzine, Chemical Plant Insecurity/They Didn't Ask, He Didn't Tell/The Kuwait of Africa |
1988-07-08 |
Abdulrahman Algharabally, Kuwait Police Academy 40 |
Kuwait - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1915-11-28 |
Mubarak Al-Sabah "The Great", Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896) |
1917-02-05 |
Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860) |
1921-02-22 |
Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864) |
1950-01-29 |
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885) |
1965-11-24 |
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895) |
1977-12-31 |
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924) |
1981-04-07 |
Nahed Sherif, Kuwait Connection |
2006-01-15 |
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926) |
2006-01-15 |
Emir of Kuwait, |
2007-11-25 |
Peter Houghton, The U.S. Border Patrol/The Pump/Kuwait: Ten Years Later |
2008-05-13 |
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Sheikh of Kuwait (b. 1930) |
2008-05-31 |
Charles Moskos, Chemical Plant Insecurity/They Didn't Ask, He Didn't Tell/The Kuwait of Africa |
