English Woman's Journal - Kuwait marks key events and anniversaries from national history

Kuwait marks key events and anniversaries from national history


Kuwait marks key events and anniversaries from national history
Kuwait marks key events and anniversaries from national history

KUWAIT: Following are events that took place in Kuwait on November 4: 1984 — Poet Abdullah Al-Sanan, whose poems reflected social, economic and political changes, died at the age of 67. 1990 — Syrian forces arrived in the Saudi port of Yanbu to join the international coalition troops stationed in Saudi Arabia to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation.

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KUWAIT: Following are events that took place in Kuwait on November 4: 1984 — Poet Abdullah Al-Sanan, whose poems reflected social, economic and political changes, died at the age of 67.

1990 — Syrian forces arrived in the Saudi port of Yanbu to join the international coalition troops stationed in Saudi Arabia to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi occupation. 1998 — Kuwait won the Arab Housing and Construction Ministers’ Award for the Al-Naeem residential project in Jahra, one of the main housing projects of 1990-1995, which consisted of 2,592 units.

2000 — The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) approved the establishment of a students’ union. 2008 — North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) warships docked at Shuwaikh Port for a six-day drill as part of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI).

2012 — Former Kuwait Airways chairman Ahmad Al-Zaben, who had been elected president of the London-based International Safety Organization as the first Arab in the post, died at the age of 66. — KUNA

St.Ch.Russell--EWJ

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