Youtube star Alicia Grimes

Events in 1971 and 10-9

Events in US in the birth year of Alicia Grimes

• 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 Alicia Grimes (10-9) in history

• Day 10-9 year 1813: Commander Oliver Hazard Perry delivered his famous message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours," after defeating the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.
• Day 10-9 year 1846: Massachusetts inventor Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.
• Day 10-9 year 1939: Canada declared war on Germany, entering WWII.
• Day 10-9 year 1963: Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff with Alabama Governor George Wallace.
• Day 10-9 year 1988: Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S. Open women's final.
• Day 10-9 year 2002: Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.