Angry Klibi resigns
1990 - Arab League Secretary General Chadli Klibi resigned after 11 years in office, the secretariat said. The resignation came amid divisions in the Arab world over the Gulf crisis. Klibi, 64, a Tunisian, held the post since 1979 when the League headquarters was transferred from Cairo to Tunis, following Egypt’s signing of a peace treaty with Israel. His term was extended for another five years in March 1989. There was no official reason given for his resignation. Arab diplomatic sources said Klibi was angry at criticism of him by some ministers at a League foreign ministers’ meeting on the Gulf crisis in Cairo last week. Klibi resigned one week before the next Cairo conference because he did not want to oversee the division of the organisation, according to analysts.
September 3
1783 - Treaty of Paris between US and Great Britain officially ends the Revolutionary War.
1871 - Japan and China sign the Treaty of Tianjin.
1879 - Afghans massacre British legation at Kabul, leading to British occupation of the city.
1904 - Japan defeats Russian forces at Liaoyang in China.
1925 - The first international handball game is played in Germany.
1935 - British driver Malcolm Campbell sets a new world land speed record of 484.62km/h
1943 - The British 8th Army invades Italy during the Second World War. The same day Italy signs a secret armistice with the Allies.
1945 - Singapore is returned to British control after being occupied by the Japanese since 1942.
1957 - Egyptian President Jamal Abdul Nasser begins talks in Cairo on negotiations for international control of the Suez Canal.
1976 - US Viking II spacecraft lands on Mars.
1984 - Typhoon Ike hits the southern Philippines, killing more than 4,000 people.
1998 - Swissair jet crashes off Canada’s Atlantic coast, killing all 229 people on board.
1997 - A Vietnam Airlines plane crashes at Phnom Penh airport, killing 65 people.
2004 - Commandos storm a school in southern Russian town of Beslan. More than 330 adults and children are killed.
2008 - Dubai government launches Noor Dubai campaign for ‘world free from blindness’.
2010 - UPS cargo plane crashes near Dubai-Al Ain road in Dubai after fire in the cockpit, killing the two pilots.
2012 - An explosives-laden car rams into a US Consulate vehicle in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing two people.
