KUWAIT, March 7 (KUNA) --
1959 -- Director of Kuwait Public Health Department Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah opened the Chest Hospital.
1965 -- Ministry of Social Affairs approved official establishment of Al-Yarmouk Sporting Club in Failaka Island. The club was initially founded in 1963.
1997 -- Kuwait national football team player Farouk Ibrahim, who retired in 1980, passed away at age of 47.
1998 -- Kuwait National Assembly approved a draft law that banned unofficial elections held before the legislative elections, with the aim of choosing a candidate.
2012 -- Kuwait petroleum corporation signed a memorandum of understanding with French Total to build a refinery in southern China for processing Kuwaiti crude oil. The refinery's projected production was 300,000 barrels per day (bpd). The two sides also agreed to build a petrochemicals complex with a production capacity of a million tons per year.
2016 -- Kuwait national team won the Amir's international shooting championship, bagging three gold, three silver and two bronze medals.
2022 -- Kuwait government approved a USD five million donation in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan and a USD million for relief assistance for Ukrainian refugees, through UN and its agencies as well as the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC). (end) bs