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Today in Kuwait's history

KUWAIT, June 27 (KUNA) -- 1961 -- Women stage their first-ever demonstration, passing through the country's main streets as they chant slogans against statements by Iraq's Prime Minister Abdulkarim Qassim on annexing Kuwait.
1963 -- The first Japanese Ambassador presents credentials to the Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah.
1975 -- Cabinet decides to compose an official national anthem instead of the Amiri antham.
1984 -- The Child Evaluation and Education Center was promulgated.
1995 -- Decree 21/95 was issued on establishing the Environment Public Authority, entrusted with environment protection and laying out strategies and a work plan for achieving sustainable development according to scientific, environmental, and health standards suitable for human living.
2003 -- Seminal artist Khalifa Al-Qattan passes away at the age of 69. He was a pioneer in the country's formative art movement in the 1950s and was the first Kuwaiti formative artist to hold a solo exhibition in the country. He was known for his surreal painting.
2005 -- The National Assembly unanimously approves a proposal to cross out a sum of KD 2,000 on each private resident's long-overdue power and water bill if the concerned national pledged, in writing, to pay back the rest of the sum in monthly installments regularly, where the installment does not exceed KD 50 a month.
2011 -- Ministry of Oil said Kuwait eager to bring production of oil to about four million barrels by 2020.
2013 -- The Security Council votes unanimously on resolution 2107 which removed Iraq from its obligations under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter concerning the return of Kuwaiti and third-State nationals or their remains and their property seized by Iraq's former regime during its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. (end) hb