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Today In Kuwait History:


(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT, March 18 (KUNA) --

1962 -- Al-Arabi theatrical troupe displayed its first play "Gasr Quraish."

1975 -- Rate of the Kuwaiti Dinar was pegged to a balanced basket of major currencies.
1978 -- The Amir sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah's Amiri decree issued on March 16, 1976 on compulsory military service came to effect.
1993 -- An international committee for demarcating the Kuwaiti-Iraqi borders concluded a blueprint for demarcating marine borderlines between Kuwait and Iraq.
2000 -- The Kuwaiti writer and playwright Hussein Al-Saleh Al-Haddad died at the age of 69.
2014 -- The Kuwaiti photographer Ali Al-Zaidi won Hamdan bin Mohammad bin Rashed Al-Maktoum Photograpy Award.
2016 -- The Kuwaiti artist Saleh Al-Hraibi died at the age of 71.
2018 -- Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, during his visit to Kuwait, decorated the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with the highly esteemed medal, the "Yaroslav Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise."

2022 -- Dr. Turki Al-Otaibi was elected chairman of the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, becoming the first Kuwaiti doctor to win this post.
2024 -- Kuwait University (KU) registered a patent for "Secure Baggage Claim System" at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which facilitated the luggage claim process. (end)
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