Arthur T. Smith (born October 12, 1981) is an American-born athlete and current spirit coordinator at Purdue University. Events 539 BC - The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 He was born in Wichita, Kansas and resides in Lafayette, Indiana. Wichita (ˈwɪtʃɪtaː is the most populous City in the US state of Kansas, and the county seat of Sedgwick County. Lafayette (ˌlɑːfijˈɛt is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, U