Topping Out ceremony at Creek Golf Course
1992 - The Dubai Creek Golf Club and Marina Complex opened to the public with a Topping Out ceremony to celebrate the formal last stage of construction of the Golf Clubhouse. Engineer Stephen Trutch used a gold trowel to finish the last phase of the construction. The project, begun in September 1990, is scheduled to be completed later this year, possibly in November. “If you had seen this place before, it was just the most awful, scrappy piece of desert,” said Michael Limb, accounts director for Total Communications, the public relations firm that represents the club. Now, the 18-hole, full-scale championship golf course is an 80-hectare green carpet of grass sprinkled with trees, flowers and six lakes that serve as the reservoir.
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1812 - US declares war on Britain.
1817 - The first Waterloo Bridge opens in London.
1928 - Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
1940 - Germans capture French port of Cherbourg.
1952 - Britain announces plan to unite Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Malawi in Central African Federation.
1953 - Egypt becomes a republic and the monarchy is abolished, General Mohammad Naguib becomes the first president.
1975 - First North Sea oil pumps ashore in Britain.
1979 - US and Soviet Union sign the SALT II strategic arms limitation treaty in Vienna.
1983 - Li Xiannian is elected China’s first President since the 1960s.
1985 - US space shuttle Discovery, with Saudi Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdul Aziz, launches a satellite for the Arab world.
1990 - Civil war is officially declared in north-east Sri Lanka.
1993 - The United Nations Security Council approves sending 7,600 peacekeepers to six Bosnian cities.
2001 - About 30,000 Syrian troops pull out of Beirut and redeploy after 25 years.
2004 - European Union leaders agree on a constitution for their newly-reunited continent.
2007 - America and Europe lift aid embargo on Palestinians.
2008 - An abstract portrait by Pablo Picasso smashes the record for an artwork sold in Australia, netting $6.9 million at an auction.
2009 - Somali Minister of Security Omar Hashi Aden is killed by a suicide bomber in a hotel in Beledweyne, near the Ethiopia border.
2016 - An Egyptian court sentences former president Mohammad Mursi to 40 years in jail.
