1992 - The Indonesia Solo Exhibition ‘92 opened on the ship Caraka Jaya III at Mina Zayed, showcasing industrial and high-technology goods from ten of Indonesia’s strategic industries. “We expect the exhibition to lead to an increase in trade transactions between Indonesia and the UAE,” said Giri Hadihardjono, vice-chairman of the Indonesian Agency for Strategic Industries (BPIS), at the opening. BPIS supports the ten strategic industries which are showing their wares in the four-day exhibition, staged aboard a converted container vessel at the port. Among other goods on display are heavy machinery, explosives, rail rolling stock, aircraft from IPTN, steel from Krakatau Steel, weapons from Pindad and vessels from Pal Indonesia.
Other important events
1558 - Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England after death of Mary I.
1800 - John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House.
1831 - New Grenada becomes an independent state.
1869 - Suez Canal opens in Egypt, linking Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.
1929 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio is elected President of Mexico.
1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, age 15, was enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama.
1954 - General Jamal Abdul Nasser becomes head of state in Egypt.
1963 - Army in Iraq revolts and sets up new revolutionary government headed by Abdul Salam Arif.
1967 - French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia.
1969 - The Strategic Arms Limitation talks between the United States and Russia begin in Helsinki, Finland.
1970 - The Soviet Luna 17, an unmanned and remote-controlled vehicle, lands on the moon.
1971 - Vemij Thanon Kittikachorn seizes power in Thailand.
1972 - Former Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron returns to his homeland after spending 17 years in exile.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party registers a convincing victory in parliamentary elections.
1991 - Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao is elected to parliament.
1993 - South African leaders endorse a new constitution to end apartheid.
1997 - Militants kill at least 70 people, including 60 foreign tourists, outside an ancient temple in Luxor, Egypt.
2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is sworn in as Governor of California.
2007 - Australian batsmen Adam Gilchrist establishes a record as the first person to hit 100 sixes in Test cricket.
2008 - Iraq signs a pact allowing US troops to stay until 2011.
2012 - Fifty people, mostly children, are killed when a train slams into a school bus as it was crossing tracks in a city south of Cairo.
2016 - World’s first Bollywood theme park is inaugurated in Dubai.
