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Christa McAuliffe was 37 and a popular teacher from New Hampshire when she and six others died in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on Jan. 28, 1986, Amy Calder writes.
50 Years Ago■A confrontation with police was avoided late last night as protesting students voluntarily and quietly evacuated the University of Massachusetts School of Education building which they had occupied for five days. At 6 p.m. yesterday.