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Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1951
January
February
February 1 - United Nations General Assembly declares that China is the aggressor in the Korean War.
February 4-8 - Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in 96-hour long operation in Chicago. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg / 308 lb.
February 6
February 12 - Marriage of Muhammad Reza Shah to Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari.
February 19- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her two pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73 year old bookmaker.
February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
February 28 - Linus Pauling, Robert Corey, and Herman Branson publish the findings of the α-helix and the β-sheet.
March
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
March 29 - Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they're sentenced to receive the death penalty.
March 29 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for three years. It is the first Rodgers and Hammerstein show specifically written for someone - actress Gertrude Lawrence. Lawrence is stricken with cancer during the run of the show and dies halfway through its run. The show makes a star of Yul Brynner.
March 31 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. The system was later demonstrated to reporter Walter Cronkite.
April
April 1 - Female suffrage begins in Greece.
April 11 - President Truman relieves General MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
April 18 - Treaty of Paris (1951) adopted, establishing European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); see EU.
April 21 - The National Olympic Committee of the USSR is formed. The USSR first participates in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952.
April 24 - In Yokohama, Japan a fire on a train leaves more than 100 dead.
April 28 - Robert Menzies' Liberal Party government in Australia is re-elected for a second term.
May
May 1 - Opera house of Geneva, Switzerland is almost destroyed in a fire.
May 3
May 9 - The first test of a nuclear weapon with thermonuclear materials, the "George" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, by the United States.
May 14 - First volunteer-run passenger trains run on Talyllyn Railway, Wales.
May 15 - Military coup in Bolivia
May 21 - Ninth Street Show otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition was a gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
May 25 - The first test of an atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the U.S.A.
June
June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.(External Link )
June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of hectares (many square miles) of forests were destroyed in fires.
July
July 1 - Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.
July 5 - William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention of the junction transistor.
July 10 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
July 13
July 14 - In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
July 16 - King Léopold III of Belgium signs the act of abdication in favour of his son Baudouin.
July 17
July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
July 30 - David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after ten minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut. The film is a critical success, but a financial flop in the United States, and receives few bookings in U.S. theatres, mostly due to the anti-Semitic charges leveled against it. The film isn't shown uncut in the U.S. until 1970.
August
August 11 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
August 20- Edna Nerney gives birth to Colin Nerney.
September
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 a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
September 9 - Chinese communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
September 10 - The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.
September 18 - The film A Streetcar Named Desire, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Marlon Brando playing Stanley Kowalski, arguably his most famous role ("Hey, Stella!"), premieres and becomes a critical and box-office smash. Vivien Leigh wins her second Oscar for her performance.
September 20 - NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.
September 26-28 - Blue sun seen over Europe: the effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires four months previously.
October
October 3 - "Shot Heard 'Round the World" One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
October 3 - Real Estate Mogul Gordon Halteman born in Oslo, Norway. The 1st son of the King Helgo Halteman and Queen Ezmerelda Halteman. He would later lose his title as Prince when caught sleeping with a chamber maid.
October 4
- The Gene Kelly film An American in Paris premieres in New York. It will eventually receive the Oscar for Best Picture of 1951.
- Henrietta Lacks dies of cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. The cancer cells, named HeLa, became an important immortal cell line for cancer research.
Shoppers World opens in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is one the first shopping malls in the U.S.
October 7 - Malayan Emergency - communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney
October 15
October 16
October 20 - The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma
October 21 - Storm in southern Italy - over 100 dead
October 24 - President Truman declares official end to war with Germany.
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
October 31 - The 1951 version of Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England. In this version, unlike the 1935 one, the ghosts are vividly shown.
November
November 1 - First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert
November 10 - Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
November 11 - Juan Peron re-elected president of Argentina
November 12 - The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time on the Eaton Auditorium
November 20 - Po river floods in northern Italy
November 24 - The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character. This version isn't a musical.
November 28 - Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol. Virtually unnoticed then, except for a favorable review in the New York Times, the film will become a classic upon its first television showings on local PBS stations in the early 1970s.
December
December 3 - The Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon
December 6 - State of emergency in Egypt due to increasing riots
December 13 - Water storage tank collapses in Tucumcari, 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 20
December 23 - The film The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in Hollywood. Bogart will win a Best Actor Oscar for his performance.
December 24
Undated
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.
The most complete recording of Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess made until then, a 3-LP Columbia Masterworks Records 129-minute album in mono, is released to great critical acclaim. There will be no truly complete recording of Porgy and Bess until 1976.
A research team publishes the Interlingua-English Dictionary.
IBM United Kingdom is formed.
1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute lasts for 151 days.
Munich Germany – A collection of mementos and personal papers belonging to Adolf Hitler are turned over to Bayerische Landesbank for authentication and eventual sale. Among the documents are his appointment as Chancellor signed by President von Hindenburg, his Austrian passport, as well as an assortment of swastika insignia pins and medals. An initial offer of $200,000.00 was made for the collection.
Stockholm, Sweden – An 18-year-old sailor is fined for kissing in public. The court calls his actions “obnoxious behavior repulsive to the public morals.”
Ongoing
Marshall Plan
Births
January-February
January 1 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
January 5 - Steve Arnold, English footballer
January 6 - Kim Wilson, American singer and harmonica player
January 8
January 12
January 20 - Ian Hill, English bassist (Judas Priest)
January 25 - Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
January 30 - Phil Collins, English musician and producer
January 31 - Harry Wayne Casey, American musician, songwriter, and producer
February 3 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
February 14 - Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager
February 15
February 19 - Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader
February 20
February 25 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
February 27 - Steve Harley, British musician (Cockney Rebel)
February 16 - Mike Flanagan, baseball pitcher
March-April
March 1 - Mike Read, British television presenter and radio disc jockey
March 4
March 6 - Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
March 8 - Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
March 12 - Susan Musgrave Canadian poet and children's writer
March 13 - Fred Berry, American actor (d. 2003)
March 14 - Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
March 17
March 18 - Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
March 26 - Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
April 5 - Joe Bowen, Canadian Hockey Broadcaster
April 6 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch Major League Baseball player
April 7 - Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
April 10
April 11 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite and murder victim (d. 1997)
April 13
April 14 - Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist and composer
April 16 - Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer
April 17 - Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress
April 19 - Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
April 20 - Louise Jameson, British actress
April 27 - Ace Frehley, Guitarist for the Rock band Kiss
April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
May-June
May 4 - Mick Mars, American musician
May 9 - Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet
May 13 - Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 15
May 19 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
May 23 - Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
May 26
May 30 - Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
June 2 - Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
June 5 - Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
June 8 - Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
June 12 - Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
June 12 - Brad Delp, lead vocalist of Boston (d. 2007)
June 14 - Paul Boateng, British politician
June 16 - Roberto Duran, Panamanian boxer
June 20 - Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
June 20 - Paul Muldoon, Irish poet
June 27 - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland
June 28 - Lalla Ward, British actress
June 28 - Lloyd Maines, American musician and record producer
June 29 - Keno Don Rosa, American comic book author
June 30 - Stanley Clarke, American bassist
July-August
July 3 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
July 5 - Rich "Goose" Gossage, baseball player
July 8 - Anjelica Huston, American actress
July 10 - Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
July 14 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
July 16 - Stewart Copeland, American drummer
July 18 - Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
July 19 - Joseph Pally, Indian Software Scientist
July 21 - Robin Williams, American actor
July 23 - Michael McConnohie, American actor
July 24 - Chris Smith, British politician
July 25 - Yuriy Kovalchuk, Russian oligarch
August 3 - Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player
August 6 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
August 8
August 12 - Willie Horton, American criminal
August 16 - Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
August 19 - John Deacon, English bassist (Queen)
August 20 - Greg Bear, American author
August 21 - Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
August 23
August 24 - Orson Scott Card, American writer
August 25 - Rob Halford, English singer (Judas Priest)
August 26 - Edward Witten, American mathematician and Fields medalist
September-October
September 5 - Michael Keaton, American actor
September 7
September 12 - Joe Pantoliano, American actor
September 13 - Linda Wong, pornstar (d. 1987)
September 18 - Darryl Stingley, Former American football player for the NFL New England Patriots (d. 2007)
September 21 - Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya
September 22 - David Coverdale, English singer
September 25 - Mark Hamill, American actor
September 26 - Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
September 27 - Paul Craig, English professor of law
September 29
September 30 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
October 2 - Sting, British musician
October 3
October 4 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
October 5 - Bob Geldof, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats)
October 6 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver
October 7 - John Mellencamp, American musician and songwriter
October 10 - Epeli Ganilau, Fiji soldier and statesman
October 11 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer and songwriter
October 18
October 25 - Richard Lloyd, American guitarist of Television
October 26 - Bootsy Collins, American musician, singer, and songwriter
October 27 - K. K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
October 30 - Harry Hamlin, American actor
November-December
November 2 - Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
November 3 - Diego Traibel, Uruguayan politician
November 3 - Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
November 11 - Marc Summers, American television host
November 15 - Alamgir Hashmi, English poet
November 16
November 18 - Justin Raimondo, American author
November 19 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British politician
November 24 - Chet Edwards, American politician
November 26 - Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
November 30 - Christian Bernard, French-born mystic
December 1
December 2 - Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
December 6 - Tomson Highway, Canadian writer
December 8
December 10 - Doug Allder, English footballer
December 12 - Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001)
December 14 - Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
December 17 - Ken Hitchcock, Canadian hockey coach
December 20 - Peter May, Scottish novelist and television dramatist
December 30 - Meredith Vieira, American television host
Unknown dates
Matt Cates, American voice actor
Brian Keenan, Irish writer and hostage in Lebanon
John Kindness, Irish artist
Mr. Butch, homeless person and icon (d. 2007)
Deaths
Musa Jan Khan, Emir of Ghazni (b. 1868)
January-June
January 7 - René Guénon, French-born author (b. 1886)
January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
January 18 - Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India (b. 1867)
January 21 - Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
January 28 - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (b. 1867)
January 29 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
January 30 - Ferdinand Porsche, German engineer (b. 1875)
February 9 - Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1909)
February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
February 18 - Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
February 19 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
February 12 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan (b. 1895)
March 6 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
March 10 - Kijūrō Shidehara ("Shidehara Kijūrō"), Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
March 25 - Eddie Collins, baseball player (b. 1887)
March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
April 4
April 6 - Robert Broom, Scottish paleontologist (b. 1866)
April 14 - Ernest Bevin, British labour leader, politician, and statesman (b. 1881)
April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist (b. 1870)
April 23 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b.1889)
May 7 - Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
May 27 - Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Australian soldier (b. 1884)
May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
June 4 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
June 13 - Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
June 21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (b. 1867)
July - December
July 9 - Harry Heilmann, baseball player (b. 1894)
July 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
July 23
July 29 - Hozumi Shigeto, Japanese author (b. 1883)
August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (b. 1863)
August 15 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
August 21 - Constant Lambert, British composer (b. 1905)
August 26 - Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player (b. 1927)
October 6 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
October 16 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1896)
November 5 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
November 9 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
November 13 - Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1880)
December 5 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (b. 1889)
December 6 - Harold Ross, American editor (b.1892)
Nobel prizes
Physics - John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton
Chemistry - Edwin McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg
Physiology or Medicine - Max Theiler
Literature - Pär Lagerkvist
Peace - Léon Jouhaux
Ship events
List of ship launches in 1951
List of ship commissionings in 1951
List of ship decommissionings in 1951
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