1973 — Naval captain Nasser Abdulatif bin Issa died at 84 years of age. He sailed to India aboard an “Alboom” dhow in 1917.

1986 — The Kuwaiti oil tanker “Al-Fintas” came under attack some 35 nautical miles east of Al-Khafji. A fire erupts in a rear reservoir.

1992 — The theatrical actress Aisha Ibrahim died at 48 of age. She is an eminent actress that has taken part in theatrical works at the local, Arab and Gulf levels.

1993 — The UN commission for demarcating the Kuwait-Iraq borders was dissolved.

2001 — The Ministry of Health launched the electronic filed project.

2006 — Former MP Jassem Hamad Al-Sagr died at 88 of age. He is the first Kuwaiti youth to earn a university certificate in law. He has also run the mass circulation “Al-Qabas” as board chairman in 1977, has served as an honorary consult in Sweden for 15 years and as a parliament member in 1975, 1981 and 1992.

2008 — The Constitutional Court strips MP Mubarak Al-Waalan of his parliamentary membership; while Askar Al-Enezi won a seat
. Abdullah Al-Ajmi also lossed his membership and Saadoun Hammad wins a seat in the assembly.

2013 — Kuwait and the preparatory committee of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) inked an accord for managing the radioactive (RN-40) station, established at the premises of Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research.

2013 — Al-Tadamon Club won the Asian weightlifting tournament held in North Korea. It goes into the records as Kuwait’s first such achievement at the Asian level.

2018 — Kuwait Oil Company declared its success in producing 500 million feet of Jurassic gas and 175,000 barrels of light crude oil per day.

Source: Kuwait News Agency