KUWAIT, Sept 13 (KUNA)

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1973 -- Kuwait Aircraft Engineers and Pilots Association (KAEPA) was proclaimed.
1997 -- Kuwaiti karate champion Bader Al-Otaibi won gold medal and his fellow citizen, Hussein Al-Qattan, bagged silver in the 55-kg competition of the World Karate Cup tournament held in Manila, the Philippines.
2004 -- The Ministry of Education applied the educational levels' system (five elementary, four intermediate and three secondary levels) for the school year 2004-05, the first time to be set up in Kuwait history.
2011 -- Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) inked an agreement with Mauritania, according to which KAFED would lend the African country KD 11 million (around USD 36 million) for co-financing construction of a drinking water network. 2022 -- Kuwaiti poet Amer Al-Sahlool, a co-founder of Nabat Poets' Diwaniya, died at 80. (end) mt