KUWAIT, May 5 (KUNA) --
1974 -- Kuwait Judo and Taekwondo Federation was established.
1974 -- Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was elected Chairman of Kuwaiti Olympic Committee, remaining in this post until his martyrdom on August 2, 1990.
1992 -- Kuwaiti Charge d'Affaires in India Miteb Al-Rumaih survived an assassination attempt.
2002 -- Kuwait's first iron manufacturing factory was launched, having an annual production capacity of 450,000 tons.
2015 -- Some 800 historic and rare Kuwaiti documents were archived in the Ottoman archive center in Istanbul.
2015 -- The National Assembly passed a law establishing the national livestock trading company.
2019 -- Athletes representing the Kuwait Oil Company's (KOC) fire team win an international competition for firefighters held in New Zealand.
2021 -- Kuwait's National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters (NCCAL) signed an agreement to establish a museum dedicated to the country's football history in Rumaithya area.
2023 -- Kuwait hearing-impaired futsal team qualified to World Cup tournament after beating Kyrgyzstan by 6-3 at the Asian and Oceana tournament held in Iran. (end) gta