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9th December

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1987: Intifada begins on Gaza Strip


The first riots of the Palestinian intifada,or shaking in Arabic, begin in the Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967. The uprising soon spread to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and Palestinian demonstrators marched while youths threw stones at Israeli police, troops, and citizens. Palestinian leaders called for the creation of an independent Palestine, and terrorist attacks against Israel increased. Israel used force to combat the intifada, and arrested and deported thousands. Israel suppressed many expressions of the intifada, but violence persisted. In 1993, the Palestinian mainstream, led by Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat, drastically changed course and acknowledged the right of Israel to co-exist with Palestine. Later that year, Arafat signed a peace accord with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and a major peace agreement in 1994. In 2000, the peace process stalled and Palestinian-Israeli violence resumed.

1997

Problems for Richard Branson in his attempt to fly around the world in a ot-air balloon - the canope breaks free and blows away in the strong winds above the Moroccan desert.

1995

British soldier, Sgt Timothy Cowley, is freed by police more than 100 days after being kidnapped by Colombian bandits.

1991

It is revealed that £420 million pounds is missing from company pension funds controlled by media & business tycoon Robert Maxwell.

1990

Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa is elected President of Poland.

1978

Pioneer Venus 2 reaches planet Venus and measures the atmosphere as it lands.

1978

Signing of the Sunningdale Agreement in Northern Ireland.

1962

Former British colony Tanganyika becomes the Republic of Tanzania.

1960

British TV: first episode of soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast on ITV in the north of England.

1955

American boxer Sugar Ray Robinson regains his world middleweight title knocking out Carl Olsen.

1941

World War II: Japanese troops begin their invasion of Malaya.

1941

World War II: China declares war on the Axis powers: Japan, Germany and Italy.

1893

Anarchist Auguste Vailland explodes a bomb inside the Paris Chamber of Deputies.

1884

Mr L.Richardson of Chicago patents roller skates.

1868

William Ewart Gladstone becomes British Prime Minister - the first of his four terms in office.

1783

First executions take place at Newgate Prison, London.

1950

Singer Joan Armatrading.

1934

British actress Judi Dench.

1929

Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

1916

American film actor Kirk Douglas ( real name Issur Danielovitch).

1909

American actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

1905

Swedish statesman and diplomat Dag Hammarskjold. Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61).

1902

British politician Richard Austin (RAB) Butler born in India.

1897

Actress Hermoine Gingold

1886

Clarence Birdseye - American inventor of the deep-freezing process to preserve food.

1608

Writer John Milton.

1979

Boxing promotor Jack Solomons.

1970

French President Charles de Gaulle.

1964

English actress Dame Edith Sitwell.