This Day in History
This Day in History (1995): Dhahran Health Exhibit Opens
Annul exhibition worked hard to help employees make the "smart move" toward better and healthy habits.
From the Jan. 18, 1995, edition of The Arabian Sun
The 14th Annual Health Exhibition, held under the theme "Start Move," was inaugurated this past week by Nabil Al-Bassam, executive vice president of Finance and Relations, near Gate Four in the core area.
The event, which was coordinated by Health Education in collaboration with several medical and other departments, contains a wealth of information to encourage employees to make a "smart move" toward a better health regimen.
In the smoking section, visitors learned about the deadly hazards of cigarette and hubbly bubbly smoking, carbon monoxide testing, and tips on how to quit smoking.
Preventive measures for lead medicine and drug poisoning are vividly shown to educate people on how to avoid such health hazards.
The nutrition wheel informs employees about food, exercise, and energy expenditure in the most practical, easily obtained method.
At the fitness section, visitors could interact with computer programs, play the strength game, and test their health age. A living room setting with a couch, junk food, and VCR/TV playing fitness programs promotes fitness awareness messages.
Caption for top photo: The Dhahran Health Exhibition was inaugurated Jan. 14 by Nabil I. Al-Bassam, second from left, executive vice president of Finance and Relations. Here he is seen with Ahmad S. Humaid, right, senior vice president of Industrial Relations, and Ibrahim Al-Khowaiter, second from right, executive director of Medical Services.
Also on this day (Jan. 18)
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2005 — The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France
1993 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed in all 50 United States for the first time
1983 — The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family
1977 — Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease
1967 — Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment
1958 — Willie O'Ree, the first Black Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins
1919 — The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France
1896 — An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H.L. Smith
1871 — Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) toward the end of the Franco-Prussian War
1788 — The first elements of the First fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrive at Botany Bay
1778 — James Cook becomes the first-known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands"
1586 — A massive earthquake strikes Honshu, Japan, killing 8,000 people and triggering a tsunami
474 — Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies 10 months later.
