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Each of the following events happened on August 11. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) Hip-hop is born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx, New York, where DJ Kool Herc—aka Clive Campbell—introduces the technique of playing the same album on two turntables and extending the drum section. The night is widely recognized as the birth of hip-hop.
• B) Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary first opens its doors, with a group of prisoners classified as “most dangerous” arriving at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop ~1.5 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. The convicts join a few dozen military prisoners left over from the island’s days as a US military prison.
• C) NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits his 500th career homerun, becoming the first baseball player ever to reach that milestone.
• D) American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for an electronic device that minimizes the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

Hint: It’s almost a 2-mile swim to shore if you escape Alcatraz

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The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Prehistoric hometown of the Flintstone family; also means a strong, fundamental base or set of principles on which to build”...

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The lights go down, one person walks onstage, and the screaming starts before they’ve even done anything.

These are the music stars who made entire eras feel like theirs. Now, the 12 biggest titans of pop are facing off on GOATWars to determine which icon deserves the crown.

Showdowns include:

• Michael Jackson 🆚 Madonna 
• The Beatles 🆚 Beyoncé 
• Prince 🆚 Taylor Swift 

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C, B, D, A

• C) 1929 – Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run.
• B) 1934 – Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary first opens its doors.
• D) 1942 – Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil—aka “The Parents of Wi-Fi”—receive a patent for a device that minimizes radio jamming.
• A) 1973 – DJ Kool Herc gives birth to the music genre of hip-hop.

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