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** The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, returns to Kuwait after seven months of exile while his country was occupied by Iraq.
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** and Emir
** The Abbadid Emir of Seville, Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Abbad, declares independence from Muhammad III, Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba.
** A new Berber dynasty, the Almohads, led by Emir Abd al-Mu ' min al-Kumi, takes North Africa from the Almoravids and soon invades the Iberian Peninsula.
** The Umayyad Emir Abd al-Rahman III, faced with the threat of invasion by the Fatimids, proclaims himself Caliph of Córdoba.
** and Kuwait
** Arabia: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones.
** U. S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U. S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.
** United States Secretary of State James Baker meets with the Foreign Minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz, but fails to produce a plan for Iraq to withdraw its troops from Kuwait.
** The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
** Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Kuwait, thus starting the ground phase of the war.
** For meritorious operational service in the Persian Gulf during enforcement of sanctions in support of United Nations Security Council Resolutions and the subsequent period of hostilities against Iraq to liberate Kuwait in 1990-91.
** For meritorious operational service in the Persian Gulf during enforcement of sanctions in support of United Nations Security Council Resolutions and the subsequent period of hostilities against Iraq to liberate Kuwait in 1990-91.
** and Al-Sabah
** and returns
** Itemized deduction, eligible expense that individual taxpayers in the United States can report on their Federal income tax returns
** At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the First Supply and about 100 new settlers ; he finds only 38 survivors.
** Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
** The Soviet Union returns Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom in exchange for spies Peter and Helen Kroger ( Morris and Lona Cohen ).
** Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for $ 24 ( he leaves the island January 1970 ).
** The United States returns Okinawa, occupied and governed since the World War II Battle of Okinawa, to Japan.
** The United States Railroad Administration returns control of American railroads to its constituent railroad companies.
** The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
** A coroner's jury returns a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.
** Henry, Count of Chambord, refuses to be crowned " King Henry V of France " until France abandons its tricolor and returns to the old Bourbon flag.
** South African general election, 1989: the last held under apartheid returns the National Party to power with a much-reduced majority.
** Siege of Alexandria: Queen Cleopatra VII returns to the palace rolled into a Persian carpet and has it presented to Caesar by her servant.
** While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.
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