Rock singer Matt Berninger

Events in 1971 and 13-2

Events in US in the birth year of Matt Berninger

• 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 Matt Berninger (13-2) in history

• Day 13-2 year 1866: The gang that included Jesse James and Cole Younger committed their first bank robbery in Liberty, Mo.
• Day 13-2 year 1867: Johann Strauss's Blue Danube waltz premiered in Vienna.
• Day 13-2 year 1935: Bruno Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
• Day 13-2 year 1960: France exploded its first atomic bomb.
• Day 13-2 year 1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was deported from the Soviet Union.
• Day 13-2 year 2002: The French judge was accused of throwing the pairs skating decision to the Russians at the Olympics.