Actress Jennifer Schwalbach Smith

Events in 1971 and 7-4

Events in US in the birth year of Jennifer Schwalbach Smith

• US Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation (April 20).
• Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington (May 3)—police and military units arrest as many as 12,000; most are later released.
• Pentagon Papers published (June 13).
• Twenty-sixth Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18. (June 30).

Birthday Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (7-4) in history

• Day 7-4 year 1862: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
• Day 7-4 year 1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
• Day 7-4 year 1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
• Day 7-4 year 1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
• Day 7-4 year 1949: Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
• Day 7-4 year 1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
• Day 7-4 year 2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
• Day 7-4 year 2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.