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Today in Kuwait history

KUWAIT, March 4 (KUNA) -- 1965 -- Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signs a law regulating crafts, industrial facilities and licenses.

1976 -- Abdulhameed Al-Sanee -- a prominent figure in Kuwait's literary history, a former head of Public Health Department, member of the high council to administrate state affairs in 1959, founder of Kadhma magazine published in 1948, and once head of the municipality -- passes away at age 82.

1981 -- Kuwait Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah signs a decree forming Kuwait's 11th cabinet led by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah.

1991 -- Crown Prince and Prime Minister Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah returns home following the liberation of Kuwait from the heinous Iraqi invasion.

1997 -- Kuwait Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah signs a decree setting up the National Security Council chaired by the prime minister and comprises eight members.

2000 -- Al-Arabi Sporting Club wins the Seventh Crown Prince Football Cup by beating Kazma SC 2-1.

2003 -- Sulaibikhat Sporting Club wins the Seventh Arab Handball Championship of Club Winners' Cup in Casablanca, Morocco.

2017 -- Kuwaiti Jet-skier Yousef Al-Abdulrazzaq receives honors from international powerboating union (UIM), crowning him as the 2016 World Jet-ski Champion in the tournament held in Principality of Monaco. (end) gta