Today in History: December 9th

[EbonyExperience]

December 9, 1987 - In the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, the first riots of the Palestinian intifada, or "shaking off" in Arabic, begin one day after an Israeli truck crashed into a station wagon carrying Palestinian workers in the Jabalya refugee district of Gaza, killing four and wounding 10. Gaza Palestinians saw the incident as a deliberate act of retaliation against the killing of a Jew in Gaza several days before, and on December 9 they took to the streets in protest, burning tires and throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at Israeli police and troops. At Jabalya, an Israeli army patrol car fired on Palestinian attackers, killing a 17-year-old and wounding 16 others. The next day, crack Israeli paratroopers were sent into Gaza to quell the violence, and riots spread to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

 

[EbonyExperience]

On December 9, 1998, Doug Englebart, inventor of the mouse, was honored at a daylong public symposium at Stanford University. In the early 1960s, while working at Stanford Research Institute on a grant from the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Englebart had envisioned computers that could help augment human intelligence. He developed a computer system operated by a mouse, after experimenting with dozens of odd steering devices, including joysticks, light pens, and a steering wheel. In 1968, Englebart demonstrated the system in a legendary presentation at the Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco. Englebart also predicted the development of personal computers, networks, and word processors.

 

[Jerboy]

 

[MrCodeDude]

Heh.. Okay.
-- mrcodedude

 

[olds]

December 9th 1958 oldsmoboat was born.

 

Happy Birthday oldsmoboat

I thought I was old

 

[rival]

<< December 9 2001 - Orcish posted two of his far-from-the-best threads and was called a 'nef'. He really didn't deserve it, but that's what he was called >>



Quit whining.

 

[EbonyExperience]

December 9, 1981: Mumia Abu-Jamal's struggle begins

Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner is found dead on the street with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a well-known activist and occasional journalist, lying severely wounded nearby. In 1982, Abu-Jamal was tried for and convicted of Faulkner's murder, but because of the murky circumstances surrounding the incident and a trial that many believe was unfair, activists have protested that Abu-Jamal has been wrongly imprisoned for years.

Reportedly, Abu-Jamal, a journalist who had been fired by National Public Radio for his outspokenness, was driving a cab at 4 a.m., when he saw his brother engaged in an altercation with Faulkner on the street. Evidence used in the trial suggested that Abu-Jamal intervened with a gun and then exchanged shots with Faulkner.