Published on 12:00 AM, December 03, 2018

BITS OF HISTORY

(DECEMBER 02)

1971: The United Arab Emirates was formed.

1990: After German reunification, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's coalition of CDU/CSU and FDP won the first free all-German elections since 1932.

1993: Pablo Escobar, boss of the Medellin cocaine cartel in Colombia, was killed in a shootout as police tried to arrest him.