KUWAIT, June 17 (KUNA) --
1961 -- Kuwait Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah appoints Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah as head of police and public security, maintaining this position until January 17, 1962, then named Minister of Interior in Kuwait's first government.
1970 -- Sixteen Kuwaiti forces from Yarmouk Brigade get martyred while fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with Egyptian armed forces against the Israeli occupaying forces. A battle takes place at Suez Canal and a military funeral procession is held for the martyrs at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, burried in Martyrs Cemetery in Sulaibikhat area.
1976 -- Five people are injured, including the chief editor, in an explosion at Daily Al-Anbaa newspaper.
1976 -- Kuwaiti Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah issues a law decree turning the private sector into a state-owned sector.
1986 -- Four explosions take place at a number of oil facilities at Ahmadi Area causing huge fire in Ahmadi Port and Maqwaa oil fields, causing no casualties. Arab revolutionaries group claims responsbility for the blasts 1990 -- Ahmad Meshari Al-Adwani, a poet who wrote Kuwait national anthem poem, passes away at age of 67.
2000 -- A gas leak in one of the refining towers in Shuaiba Refinery kills two Kuwaiti engineers and injured others. Mohammad Al-Kanderi and Bader Al-Duyouli passes away after inhaling hydrogen sulfide gas when inspecting one of the units.
2000 -- Al-Arabi SC win Kuwait Football Association's (KFA) Martyr Fahad Al-Ahmad League after beating Al-Sahel SC 2-1.
2001 -- Kuwait Blood Bank is recognized by the American Association of Blood Banks as the first blood bank in the Middle East.
2001 -- American University in Cairo grants Director of Kuwait University Dr. Fayza Al-Kharafi an honorary doctorate.
2013 -- Abdullah Tergi Al-Resheedi, of Kuwait, wins gold in skeet competition of the world shooting championship in Cyprus.
2019 -- Eman Al-Shamma' wins Kuwait Amir shooting championship, held in Italy, and Abdulrahman Al-Faihan won the Trap competition in the same event.
2019 -- Kuwait inaugurates the Late Sheikha Salwa Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah Stem Cell and Umbilical Cord Center, the first in the Gulf region.
2020 -- Ahmad Yusuf Behbehani, former vice-chairman of board of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) and the honorary president of Kuwait Journalists Association, passes away at age of 79.
2020 -- Kuwait National Assembly postpones instalments on citizens for six months.
2020 -- Kuwaiti National Assembly passes amendments to the social security law.
2020 -- Kuwaiti National Assembly okays amendments to the procedural law 2020 -- Kuwait parliament amended the civil and commercial law to allow the public to file law suits against judges and prosecutors. (end) mt