KUWAIT, May 17 (KUNA) --
1896 -- Sheikh Mubarak bin Sabah bin Jaber, Jaber "The Great", becomes the seventh ruler of Kuwait.
1920 -- Building of third wall surrounding Kuwait commences.
1954 -- Kuwait Airways Corporation starts regular flights to Basra.
1963 -- Kuwait establishes diplomatic relations with Poland.
1980 -- An Amiri decree is issued establishing Kuwait University's College of Education.
1997 -- Kuwaiti mission to the UN inaugurates its internet Website.
1999 -- Establishment of the Direct Aid Society is declared.
1999 -- The Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) launches its roaming service.
1999 -- A team of Kuwaiti doctors succeed in carrying out the first blood vessel surgery in the country on a patient suffering from sever expansion in a major artery linked to the spleen and pancreas.
1999 -- Kuwait's Justice Ministry signs with the Arab League a memorandum of understanding over cooperation in legal and judicial information fields.
2000 -- Kuwaiti shooter Fahad Al-Dihani wins a gold medal at the world shooting championship held in Italy.
2002 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) elects Kuwait as member of its executive council in appreciation to Kuwait's prominent role in the public health field.
2006 -- MPs Ahmad Al-Saadoun, Ahmad Al-Mulaifi, and Dr. Faisal Al-Mislem file an interpellation motion against HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah in line with Article 100 of the Constitution. The interpellation, the first in the country's history to be filed against a premier, comes after the government referred to the Constitutional Court its own draft bill over amending the number of electoral constituencies and bringing them down from 25 to 10 -- a move that is considered an intentional stalling of efforts to amend constituencies.
