TV actress Shannen Doherty

Events in 1971 and 12-4

Events in US in the birth year of Shannen Doherty

• 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 Shannen Doherty (12-4) in history

• Day 12-4 year 1861: The Civil War began when Fort Sumter was attacked.
• Day 12-4 year 1862: James J. Andrews led the raiding party that stole the Confederate locomotive "The General," inspiring the 1926 Buster Keaton movie.
• Day 12-4 year 1945: President Franklin Roosevelt died.
• Day 12-4 year 1955: The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was called "safe, effective, and potent."
• Day 12-4 year 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin became the first human in space and also the first human to orbit the earth in a spacecraft.
• Day 12-4 year 1981: The first space shuttle, Columbia, took its first test flight.
• Day 12-4 year 1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first African-American mayor.
• Day 12-4 year 1999: Arkansas federal judge Susan Webber Wright found President Clinton in contempt of court for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.