Today in Kuwait's History : 17/04/2014

KUWAIT, April 17 (KUNA) -- 1966 -- Kuwait Handball Association was officially declared.
1977 -- Cabinet approved granting houses for middle-income citizens for the first time.
1979 -- His Highness the Amir, the late Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah issued decree number 17/1979 approving a 1972 agreement to prevent high seas accidents.
1992 -- Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission set the final map for the two countries' borders.
2000 -- Kuwait's first conference for the prevention of smoking was launched under the patronage of His Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister the late Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, organized by Kuwait Society for Smoking and Cancer Prevention.
2000 -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah inaugurated the Scientific Center, an establishment under the care of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
2001 -- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah issued draft decree 8/2001 to monitor and organize direct foreign capital investment in Kuwait.
2001 -- Kuwait and the US renewed their ten-year joint-defence agreement, for another decade.
2001 -- Kuwait hosted meetings of the executive committee of the Arab Federation for Sports Journalism for the first time.(end) ag