On this day in 1989, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was reopened as East and West Germany continued moving toward reunification. Berliners had been unable to use the gate since 1961, when the newly built Berlin Wall blocked access to it. 1989.
The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia was promulgated, granting such civil rights as freedom of speech, religion, information, and association, as well as guaranteeing the equality of nationalities. 1990.
Rescue helicopters arrived at the crash site of Uruguayan Air Force flight 571 and evacuated a first group of survivors, two months after the plane went down in the Andes Mountains in Argentina. Of the 45 people aboard the plane, only 16 survived. 1972.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met in Washington, D.C., to discuss World War II, two weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack. 1941
Srinivasa Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian mathematician who made many pioneering discoveries and whose story was told in the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015), was born in Erode in what is today Tamil Nadu. 1887.
Frank B. Kellogg, a U.S. secretary of state who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1929, was born in Potsdam, New York. 1856.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (born December 22, 1960, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 1988, New York City) was an American painter known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text.
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