Today, as people across the UAE take time off to join nationwide Eid Al Etihad celebrations, it is worth reflecting on how the world looked in 1971 as a group of emirates in the Arabian Peninsula historically came together to create a new and distinctive society.
That year, the US secretly opened channels of communication with China, paving the way for president Richard Nixon’s ground-breaking 1972 visit. The space race between the Soviet Union and the US was in full swing, and in January and February, two crewed Apollo missions landed o
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