Basketball players Brent Barry

Events in 1971 and 31-12

Events in US in the birth year of Brent Barry

• 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 Brent Barry (31-12) in history

• Day 31-12 year 1879: Thomas Edison gave the first public demonstration of an electric incandescent lamp.
• Day 31-12 year 1938: The first breath test for drivers, "drunkometer," was introduced in Indianapolis.
• Day 31-12 year 1946: President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
• Day 31-12 year 1961: The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
• Day 31-12 year 1963: Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formally dissolved.
• Day 31-12 year 1964: The al-Fatah guerrillas of Yasser Arafat launched their first terrorist raid on Israel.
• Day 31-12 year 1987: Robert Mugabe sworn in as Zimbabwe's president.