Zayed returns after successful surgery
1996- President His Highness Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan thanked Supreme Council Members and Rulers of the emirates and the people of the UAE for the noble feelings they expressed upon his return to the country after the successful surgery he underwent in the United States. “It is my pleasure to express my gratitude for the sincere feelings of our people and my appreciation of their love and loyalty, which reflect nobility and deep-rooted national values among the people of one family. May God Almighty help me to serve the people of the UAE and to achieve their aspirations for glory, progress, prosperity, security and stability,” Shaikh Zayed said. Upon arrival at the Abu Dhabi International Airport, Shaikh Zayed was accorded a ceremonial welcome.
November 13
1832 - The first streetcar, a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason, goes into operation in New York City.
1913 - Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1918 - The Republic of Austria is proclaimed.
1927 - Holland Tunnel opens between New York and New Jersey.
1935 - US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims the Philippines as a free commonwealth.
1940 - Walt Disney’s Fantasia opens in New York.
1942 - British forces retake Tobruk, Libya, in Second World War.
1945 - Sukarno becomes President of Indonesia.
1970 - Hafeez Al Assad seizes power in a bloodless coup in Syria.
1975 - World Health Organisation announces that Asia is free of smallpox for the first time in history.
1988 - Palestinian National Council agrees unanimously on the draft of an independent state declaration.
1989 - Rohana Wijeweera, the leader of the People’s Liberation Front, dies in a shootout in Sri Lanka.
1994 - Swedish voters approve European Union membership in a referendum.
1995 - A bomb rips through a building inhabited by American and Saudi military personnel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing seven.
1999 - Peru signs an agreement with Chile to end a 120-year territorial dispute.
2000 - Philippines President Joseph Estrada becomes the first Philippines leader to be impeached.
2008 - The UAE government appoints Fatima Saeed Obaid Al Awani as the first female marriage registrar in the UAE.
2010 - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walks free after more than seven years under house arrest in Myanmar.
2011 - McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton wins Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix.
2012 - UAE government approves the draft of the Wudeema law to protect children’s rights.
2014 - Two car bombs shatter the UAE and Egyptian embassies in Libya’s militia-controlled capital of Tripoli.
