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- B) President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill meet on board a ship in Newfoundland to discuss issues ranging from support for Russia, to threatening Japan, to postwar peace. What came from it is the Atlantic Charter, which would be the founding principles of the United Nations.
- C) Jean-Michel Basquiat, a self-taught artist who rose from notorious graffiti tagger to one of the most important American painters of the 20th century, is found dead of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27 in his NYC apartment.
- D) MLB players go on an in-season strike that lasts for 232 days. The World Series this year has to be canceled for the first time in 90 years.
Hint: 3 bones sticking out of a cliff led to Sue’s discovery |
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📜 Answers | | B, C, A, D - B) 1941 – FDR and Winston Churchill meet to map out the Atlantic Charter.
- C) 1988 – Jean-Michel Basquiat is found dead.
- A) 1990 – Susan Hendrickson unearths the most complete T-Rex fossil ever.
- D) 1994 – MLB players go on an in-season strike.
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