Today in History: December 13th

[EbonyExperience]

December 13, 1999 - Vice President Al Gore announced that he was opposed to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and, if elected, would propose legislation to end discrimination against gays and lesbians in the military.

 

[EbonyExperience]

1994 First World Wide Web Consortium meeting at MIT

The first meeting of the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium took place in Cambridge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on December 13, 1994. The group was established as an international association to promote common protocols on the World Wide Web, whose creator Tim Berners-Lee, became the group's first director. Berners-Lee developed the Web while a fellow at CERN, the European particle physics lab, in the early 1990s.

 

[perry]

Today in history.

 

[fatalbert]

I read a dumb thread!

 

[MissSuperb]

Is it gay pride month again?

 

[Amused]

<< December 13, 1999 - Vice President Al Gore announced that he was opposed to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy and, if elected, would propose legislation to end discrimination against gays and lesbians in the military. >>



Yet he and his buddy, Clinton, did nothing about that in their 8 years in office.

 

[Aves]

2000 - U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceeded the 2000 Presidential election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush. The Florida electoral votes were won by only 537 votes, which decided the election. The election had been contested up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which said that the Florida recount (supported by the Florida Supreme Court) was unconstitutional.