KUWAIT, Feb 8 (KUNA)
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1942 -- The British Bank started operations in State of Kuwait. It changed its name to the British Bank of the Middle East in 1971 but left the country after the nationalization of all foreign banks. It returned to the State of Kuwait on October 2, 2005 under the name HSBC Middle East Limited.
1952 -- Kuwait Teachers Club launched a project to eliminate illiteracy in four schools, where 70 teachers work at night time to educate 1,100 persons.
1955 -- Abdulmohsen Al-Kharafi, one of Kuwait's renowned figures in trade and public service and member in the first Council of the Department of Knowledge, passed away at the age of 60.
1965 -- Osrati (Family) Magazine, specialized in women affairs, issued its first edition.
1965 -- More than 200 Arab journalists met in the first conference of the Federation of Arab Journalists to write a single Arab press bill.
1981 -- Kuwait Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah signed a decree to establish the Arab Fisheries Company.
2003 -- Defense and Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries approved, during a meeting held in the Saudi city of Jeddah, Kuwait's request to deploy Peninsula Shield Forces to confront continued threats posed by Iraq against the State of Kuwait.
2006 -- Kuwait Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah signed a decree bestowing His Highness title on Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah.
2010 -- Air Vice Marshal (retired) Marzouq Al-Ajeel, the first Kuwaiti pilot to obtain a degree from Britain in 1954, passed away at the age of 75.
2012 -- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed two 26.6 million Kuwaiti Dinar (KD) agreement to finance water network development project in Bahrain.
2012 -- KFAED signed a KD 7.4 million loan agreement to fund development of a teachers college in China.
2015 -- Kuwait Oil Tankers Company (KOTC) said its tanker, Burgan, succeeded in repelling an attack by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The tanker was on a trip from Kuwait to Djibouti.
2017 -- Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) signed a 30-month contract with Gulfspic General Trading and Contracting Company to build sulphur treatment facilities in Al-Ahmadi Refinery, with a daily production capacity of 1,000 tons worth KD 29.646 million.
2020 -- Stars Club of Kuwait won the Arab Ice Hockey championship after beating UAE's Theebs 6-4.
2022 -- The Ministry of Health said Abdulaziz Al-Rashed Center for Allergy Diseases in Kuwait was chosen as a distinguished center in the field of allergy and immunology worldwide.
2024 -- The Ministry of Health announced that the Global Allergy and Asthma European Network (GA2LEN) had chosen Assad Al-Hamad Dermatology Center as Center of Excellence in the field of atopic ecsema worldwide. (end) bs