2002 - The police in India filed new charges of culpable homicide against Bollywood actor Salman Khan who had last month allegedly rammed his car onto a Mumbai sidewalk, where a group of workers had been sleeping. One person was killed and three were hospitalised with major injuries in the incident. Salman was placed under arrest after he surrendered and was remanded to police custody until October 10 by the Metropolitan Magistrate’s court. Goolam Vahnavati, Advocate General of Maharashtra, told the court of the cancellation of the Rs950 (Dh53) bail granted earlier to the actor by the Bandra police. He narrated the entire sequence of events, including the police investigation that indicated Salman was driving the vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
Other important events
1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand for the first time, at Poverty Bay.
1826 - The first gravity-powered American railroad runs from Quincy to Milton, Massachusetts, carrying granite rock.
1879 - Britain invades Afghanistan.
1935 - League of Nations declares Italy the aggressor in Ethiopia.
1941 - John Curtin becomes Prime Minister of Australia.
1949 - The Democratic Republic of Germany is formed.
1950 - China invasion of Tibet.
1955 - Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign a joint defence agreement in Cairo.
1958 - President Iskander Mirza proclaims martial law in Pakistan.
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy signs nuclear test ban treaty between the United States, Britain and Soviet Union.
1971 - Oman joins United Nations.
1976 - Hua Guofeng becomes Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
1981 - Egypt’s Vice-President Hosni Mubarak is nominated as successor to slain president Anwar Sadat.
1990 - Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum passes away.
1996 - Two car bombs explode inside the British army’s heavily-guarded headquarters in Northern Ireland, injuring 31 people.
1998 - Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Jehangir Karamat resigns.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica takes oath of office as Yugoslav President.
2001 - US and Britain launch powerful air and missile strikes on Afghanistan.
2003 - California votes in a special election to recall Democratic Governor Gray Davis from office and replace him with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2005 - Mohammad Al Baradei and his International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2006 - Latvians vote in first election since joining European Union.
2011 - Tawakul Karman becomes the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2013 - Four Saudi women make history by becoming the first women to be allowed to practice law in the kingdom’s courts.
2015 - UAE opens new diplomatic mission in Havana, Cuba.
