The new Business Bay bridge over Dubai Creek was fully opened, providing easy access to motorists travelling between Bur Dubai and Deira. All 13 lanes of the bridge were opened, said an official at the Roads and Transport Authority. Six of the 13 lanes of the bridge were opened to traffic last month. It is the third bridge over the creek and has been built 30 years after the last bridge, Al Garhoud, was constructed. The Business Bay Crossing is located some 1.5 km South of Al Garhoud Bridge near the Festival City and will provide a new road corridor to motorists travelling between Bur Dubai and Deira and to Sharjah, in addition to Emirates Road and Shaikh Zayed Road. The total length of the comprehensive road network is 15km.
Other important events:
1707 Kingdom of Great Britain is created as a treaty merges England, Wales and Scotland.
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden.
1896 Charles Tupper is sworn in as the 6th Prime Minister of Canada.
1898 A US naval force destroys a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
1919 Mount Kelud erupts in Indonesia, killing 5,000 people.
1925 Cyprus becomes a British colony.
1931 The 102-story Empire State Building opens in New York City.
1933 The first telephone link between Britain and India is established
1948 The People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) is proclaimed.
1960 India’s Bombay state splits into Gujarat and Maharashtra states.
1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua.
1971 Amtrak Railroad begins operating in US.
1979 Greenland gains home rule from Denmark.
1989 The government of Kampuchea changes country’s name to Cambodia.
1990 Soviet protesters heckle President Mikhail Gorbachev at May Day parade in Red Square.
1991 Angola’s leftist government and US-backed rebels reaches a peace agreement to end 16 years of civil war
1993 Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa is killed in a suicide bombing in Colombo.
1994 Ayrton Senna dies in hospital after a high-speed crash on the seventh lap of the San Marino Grand Prix.
1997 Sinn Fein leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness win two of Northern Ireland’s 18 seats in British parliament.
1999 The UAE and Oman sign an agreement defining the border between the two countries.
2001 The Philippines declares a “state of rebellion”, two stages down from martial law in Manila.
2004 Ten new members from eastern Europe and the Mediterranean join the European Union.
2005 The Qatar Financial Centre opens for business in Doha.
2008 China opens the world’s longest cross-sea bridge between Shanghai and Ningbo.
2010 Floyd Mayweather Jr wins a welterweight boxing match against Shane Mosley and keeps his unbeaten record of 41-0.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son and three grandchildren are killed in a Nato air strike.
2014 Twin bombs planted on a train kill one person in Chennai, India.
