1951 - Definition


1951 - Definition

Years:
1948 1949 1950 - 1951 - 1952 1953 1954

Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1951 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science - Television
Other topics
Canada - Ireland - Sport

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

Global Metrics

Human security

Major Armed Conflicts:
Total Deaths in Battle: 700,000 people
Violent Deaths caused by Government (Other than War):
Violent Deaths caused by other humans:
Juvenile Violent Crime:

Political security

Nations Holding Multi-party Elections:
Percentage Living under a Fully Democratic System of Governance:
"Free" Countries:
Percentage Living in "Free" Countries:

Human wellbeing

Life Expectancy:
Teen Birthrates:
Mortality Rates of Children Under Five:
Concentration Levels of Major Air Pollutants:
Green Ceiling per Capita GDP:

Events

January events

January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City).
January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
January 20 - Avalanches in the Alps - 240 die and 45.000 are buried for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy
January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

February events

February 1 - United Nations General Assembly declares that China is the aggressor in the Korean War
February 12 - Marriage of Muhammad Reza Shah to Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
February 24 - Nestor (http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=nestor&gwp=11&ver=1.0.2.84&method=2,) is born at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

March events

March 1 - the city Yaizu, located in Shizuoka, Japan, is founded
March 6 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
March 7 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against the Chinese "volunteers".
March 12 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.
March 14 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
March 14 - West Germany joins UNESCO
March 29 - Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.
March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.

April events

April 1 - Australia, New Zealand, United States security treaty signed in San Francisco.
April 1 - Female suffrage in Greece
April 11 - Stone of Scone found in Scottish church
April 18 - Treaty of Paris (1951) adopted, establishing European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); see EU.

May events

May 1 - Opera house of Geneva almost destroyed in a fire
May 14 - First volunteer-run passenger trains on Talyllyn Railway, Wales.
May 15 - Military coup in Bolivia

June events

June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.[1] (http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/)
June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres (several km²) of forests were destroyed in fires.

July events

July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
July 10 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
July 14 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
July 16 - King Leopold III of Belgium signs the act of abdication in favour of his son Baudouin.
July 17 - Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium, after his father abdicated the day before.
July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.

September events

September 1 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States").
September 8 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
September 10 - The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.
September 20 - NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members
September 26-28 - Blue sun seen over Europe; effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires four months previously

October events

October 7 - Malayan Emergency - communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney
October 16 - Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan
October 18 - Yitzhak Bezner, Israeli official, meets leading Japanese industrialists as part of a mission to establish Israeli-Japanese economic ties.
October 21 - Storm in southern Italy - over 100 dead
October 26 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden
October 27 - Farouk of Egypt declares himself also as a king of Sudan - no support

November events

November 1 - First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert
November 11 - Juan Peron re-elected president of Argentina
November 20 - Po river floods in northern Italy
November 10 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
November 24 - The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character.

December events

December 6 - State of emergency in Egypt due to increasing riots
December 13 - Water tank collapses in Tucamcari, New Mexico - 4 dead, 200 buildings destroyed
December 16 - Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
December 24 - Libya becomes independent from Italy

Undated events

A fourth, and final, forest fire starts in the Tillamook Burn; but unlike earlier fires this one only burns 32,700 acres (132 km²), and within area already affected by the earlier fires.
IBM United Kingdom formed

Year in topic

1951 in film
- An American in Paris
- The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Flying Leathernecks starring John Wayne
1951 in literature
- The Catcher in the Rye
1951 in music
- The release of "Rocket 88", a song by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. Some music historians consider this record to be the first rock and roll recording.
1951 in rail transport
- Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico de Mexico (predecessor of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico) is sold to the Mexican government.
1951 in sports
1951 in television
- January 3 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC).
- May 28 - The U. S. Supreme Court upholds the FCC's approval of the CBS color television system
- June 25 ? CBS presents its first commercial color telecast with Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson.
- June - RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system.
- August 11 - The first baseball games televised in color, a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves
- September 4 - The first coast-to-coast TV broadcast in the United States, featuring President Truman.
- September 22 - The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
- October 3 - The first live coast-to-coast network telecast of a World Series game in the United States
- October 15 - I Love Lucy debuts on CBS.
- December 24 - The first televised opera written for television, Amahl and the Night Visitor, airs on NBC.
- Ernie Kovacs' Time for Ernie and Ernie in Kovacsland television shows premiere. Kovacs pushes the limits of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects.

Births

January 6 - Kim Wilson, blues singer and harmonica player
January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress
January 12 - Rush Limbaugh, radio personality
January 30 - Phil Collins, musician
February 6 - Princess Daphn� of Belgium
February 14 - Kevin Keegan, footballer and football manager
February 15 - Melissa Manchester, singer
February 15 - Jane Seymour, actress
February 20 - Gordon Brown, British politician
February 25 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
March 4 - Kenny Dalglish footballer and football manager
March 4 - Chris Rea, British singer and musician
March 17 - Kurt Russell, actor
March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
April 6 - Bert Blyleven, baseball pitcher
April 7 - Janis Ian, singer and songwriter
April 10 - Steven Seagal, actor
April 11 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite (d. 1997)
April 13 - Peabo Bryson, pop singer
April 13 - Peter Davison, actor and the fifth Doctor Who
April 13 - Max Weinberg, drummer
April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, stock car racer (NASCAR) (d. 2001)
May 10 - Michael Tarn, actor
May 15 - Jonathan Richman, musician
May 23 - Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion
May 26 - Sally Ride, astronaut
May 30 - Stephen Tobolowsky, actor
June 2 - Larry Robinson, Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman
June 14 - Paul Boateng, British politician, first black Cabinet minister
June 17 - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland
June 20 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress
July 3 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
July 5 - Rich "Goose" Gossage, baseball pitcher
July 8 - Anjelica Huston, actress
July 10 - Cheryl Wheeler, singer/songwriter
June 28 - Lloyd Maines, country music musician and record producer
July 24 - Chris Smith, British politician, first "out" gay MP
August 3 - Marcel Dionne, Hockey Hall of Famer
August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author
August 23 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
August 23 - Queen Noor of Jordan
August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author
September 7 - Julie Kavner, voice actress
September 12 - Joe Pantoliano, actor
September 22 - David Coverdale, singer
September 29 - Andr�s Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
September 29 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
October 3 - Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer
October 3 - Keb Mo', blues musician
October 6 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver
October 7 - John Mellencamp, musician/songwriter
October 10 - Ratu Epeli Ganilau, Fijian soldier and statesman
October 11 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter
October 26 - Bootsy Collins, funk musician, singer, songwriter
November 11 - Marc Summers, television host
November 15 - Alamgir Hashmi, poet, scholar, professor
November 19 - Lord Falconer, British lawyer and politician
November 24 - Chet Edwards, American politician
November 26 - Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, pornographic film actress, politician
November 30 - Christian Bernard, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, Imperator of AMORC
December 17 - Ken Hitchcock, NHL coach
December 30 - Meredith Viera, television host

Deaths

January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, writer
February 9 - Eddy Duchin, musician
February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author
February 18 - Lyman Gilmore, Choctaw Native American airplane pioneer
February 19 - Andr� Gide, author
February 21 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895)
March 6 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer
March 10 - Shidehara Kijuro, Japanese prime minister
March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
March 25 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, pioneer African-American, filmmaker/author
April 4 - Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer
April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist
April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist
April 23 - Charles G. Dawes, former U.S. vice-president
May 7 - Warner Baxter, actor
May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author
June 4 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
June 13 - Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister
June 21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (b. 1867)
July 9 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1894)
July 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
July 20 - King Abdullah, King of Jordan
July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker
July 29 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher
August 15 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
August 21 - Constant Lambert, composer
October 16 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
November 5 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete
November 9 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
November 13 - Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist/composer

Nobel Prizes

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Deaths

January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, writer
February 9 - Eddy Duchin, musician
February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author
February 18 - Lyman Gilmore, Choctaw Native American airplane pioneer
February 19 - Andr� Gide, author
February 21 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895)
March 6 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer
March 10 - Shidehara Kijuro, Japanese prime minister
March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
March 25 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887)
March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, pioneer African-American, filmmaker/author
April 4 - Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer
April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist
April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist
April 23 - Charles G. Dawes, former U.S. vice-president
May 7 - Warner Baxter, actor
May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author
June 4 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
June 13 - Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister
June 21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (b. 1867)
July 9 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1894)
July 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer
July 20 - King Abdullah, King of Jordan
July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker
July 29 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author
August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher
August 15 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
August 21 - Constant Lambert, composer
October 16 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan
November 5 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete
November 9 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
November 13 - Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist/composer

Nobel Prizes

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