Sirdal, captained by Ahmad Thani Murshid Al Rumaithi, won the third and final heat of the Seventh Dubai Open Traditional Dhow Sailing Race (60ft.) event at the Dubai International Marine Club. By virtue of this win, Sirdal, which was placed third in the championship points, won the overall championship. Al Azeeab, captained by Bilal Al Noobi Saeed, and Deane, captained by Saeed Mohammad Al Qamzi, came in second and third, respectively. The traditional race was held under the patronage of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and Industry. Gauging by the interest and the high level of participation in the seventh edition of the event this year, Shaikh Hamdan was confident the event would attract more participants in the future.
Other important events:
1819 The American steamboat Savannah makes its first trans-Atlantic crossing.
1822 The US and Korea sign a treaty of peace and friendship.
1840 Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales officially ends.
1867 Canada becomes the first dominion of the British Empire.
1868 The ‘Great Train Robbery’ takes place near Marshfield, Indiana, led by Frank Reno.
1914 Britain acquires control of oil properties in the Gulf from Anglo-Arabian Oil Company.
1915 Three passenger trains collide due to a signalling error at Quintinshill, Scotland, killing 226 people.
1936 Aer Lingus, Ireland’s national airline, begins operating.
1939 Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini sign ‘Pact of Steel’.
1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its Constitution is ratified.
1975 Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) is expelled from the Olympics because of its racial policies.
1979 Hungary’s ruling Communist Party elects 57-year-old Prime Minister Karoly Grosz to succeed Janos Kadar as general secretary.
1985 A car bomb explodes in a Beirut suburb, killing 60 people and wounding 190 others.
1989 India successfully test-fires its first medium-range surface-to-surface missile Agni.
1990 North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen.
1994 Rwandan rebels capture the government army barracks in the capital Kigali.
1996 A second powerful bomb kills at least 14 people on a bus in Rajasthan, India.
1999 Former Sudanese dictator Gaafar Numeiri returns home from 14 years in exile.
2003 The United Nations votes to lift crippling sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990.
2010 An Air India Express plane from Dubai crash-lands in Mangalore, India, killing 158.
2011 Defending world champion Sebastian Vettel wins the title in the Spanish Grand Prix.
2013 Dubai launches the Mobile Government initiative, marking a new era in the UAE’s development march.
2015 A suicide attacker detonates a bomb at a mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing at least 19 people.
2016 17 girls die in fire at a school dormitory in northern Thailand
