The Persian Gulf War begins. A U.S. led international coalition launched the First Gulf War a.k.a Operation Desert Storm primarily to remove Saddam Hussain’s invading forces from oil-rich Kuwait. The war ended in abject defeat for Saddam’s forces.
The Kuwait invasion mattered at that time because a number of Indian and South Asian expatriates suffered as a result of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait. [link]
On a personal and slightly lighter note, my neighborhood had a couple of kids who came back to India from Kuwait. One of them named Shankar was renamed to Saddu, short for Saddam, by the local kids including yours truly and to this day carries that name. For some reason, it seemed humorous at that time.
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