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Events on the year of 1951 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1951 Massive Chinese / North Korean assault on UN-lines
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03 Jan 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British / US agents
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03 Jan 1951 Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950)
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04 Jan 1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul
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04 Jan 1951 Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
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06 Jan 1951 "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
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06 Jan 1951 Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes
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06 Jan 1951 Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
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08 Jan 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda
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09 Jan 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres
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09 Jan 1951 Washington Capitals NBA club folds
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10 Jan 1951 UN headquarters opens in Manhattan, New York
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10 Jan 1951 1st jet passenger trip made
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12 Jan 1951 Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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13 Jan 1951 First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
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13 Jan 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents; known as the Doctors' Plot
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13 Jan 1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
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14 Jan 1951 NFL Pro Bowl 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27
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15 Jan 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
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15 Jan 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest
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15 Jan 1951 Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
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16 Jan 1951 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi
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16 Jan 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville TX, to 134th St, New York City NY)
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17 Jan 1951 China refuses cease-fire in Korea
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18 Jan 1951 1st use of lie detector in the Netherlands
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18 Jan 1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
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18 Jan 1951 Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against German Democratic Republic"
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18 Jan 1951 NFL takes control of the failing Baltimore Colts
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18 Jan 1951 NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
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21 Jan 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open
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22 Jan 1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
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22 Jan 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
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23 Jan 1951 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
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24 Jan 1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
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25 Jan 1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
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26 Jan 1951 Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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27 Jan 1951 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
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27 Jan 1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
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27 Jan 1951 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 320 performances
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27 Jan 1951 US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
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28 Jan 1951 "La Vie Commence Demain, " which depicted artificial insemination and is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
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29 Jan 1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
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29 Jan 1951 "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 56 performances
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29 Jan 1951 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
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30 Jan 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
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01 Feb 1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion
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01 Feb 1951 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
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01 Feb 1951 Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed
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03 Feb 1951 "Victor Borge Show, " debuts on NBC TV
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03 Feb 1951 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
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03 Feb 1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
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04 Feb 1951 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
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06 Feb 1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
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06 Feb 1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into
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06 Feb 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
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06 Feb 1951 The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
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07 Feb 1951 Korean War: 705 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.
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09 Feb 1951 St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
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09 Feb 1951 Korean War: Geochang massacre
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10 Feb 1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
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10 Feb 1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
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10 Feb 1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
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11 Feb 1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana)
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13 Feb 1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
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14 Feb 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
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16 Feb 1951 New York City passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
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16 Feb 1951 San Francisco City Hall dome fire
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18 Feb 1951 Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy
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18 Feb 1951 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes
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18 Feb 1951 Nep
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18 Feb 1951 Netherlands Radio School forms
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21 Feb 1951 SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
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21 Feb 1951 South Carolina House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
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24 Feb 1951 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
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24 Feb 1951 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of Germany
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24 Feb 1951 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain
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24 Feb 1951 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
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25 Feb 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament
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25 Feb 1951 The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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25 Feb 1951 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina)
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25 Feb 1951 "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
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26 Feb 1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified
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26 Feb 1951 Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
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27 Feb 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting President to 2 terms
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27 Feb 1951 The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
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27 Feb 1951 22nd amendment to the Constitution is ratified, limiting President to 2 terms in office
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28 Feb 1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
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28 Feb 1951 French government of Pleven dissolves
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02 Mar 1951 1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston
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03 Mar 1951 Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts
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03 Mar 1951 Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
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06 Mar 1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
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06 Mar 1951 The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
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07 Mar 1951 Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
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08 Mar 1951 International Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
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10 Mar 1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
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10 Mar 1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
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12 Mar 1951 Baseball Commissioner Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
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12 Mar 1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
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13 Mar 1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
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13 Mar 1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
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14 Mar 1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
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14 Mar 1951 During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
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14 Mar 1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
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15 Mar 1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
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17 Mar 1951 Government of Drees takes power
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17 Mar 1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs New Zealand Christchurch
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18 Mar 1951 Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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19 Mar 1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny" is published
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20 Mar 1951 Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
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20 Mar 1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java
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21 Mar 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
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21 Mar 1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
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23 Mar 1951 Wages in France increase 11%
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25 Mar 1951 5th Tony Awards: Guys and Dolls and Rose Tattoo win
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25 Mar 1951 E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
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26 Mar 1951 Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
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26 Mar 1951 USAF flag approved
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27 Mar 1951 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
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27 Mar 1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
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28 Mar 1951 First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mạo Khê, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
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29 Mar 1951 "King & I" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
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29 Mar 1951 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve, " Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win
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29 Mar 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying
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29 Mar 1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
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29 Mar 1951 23rd Academy Awards: "All About Eve", Jose Ferrer & Judy Holliday win
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31 Mar 1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
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31 Mar 1951 US tanks exceed 38
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05 Apr 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
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05 Apr 1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
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07 Apr 1951 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280
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07 Apr 1951 American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament
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11 Apr 1951 The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.
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11 Apr 1951 Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
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11 Apr 1951 President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur
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12 Apr 1951 Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day
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15 Apr 1951 Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
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16 Apr 1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
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17 Apr 1951 The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.
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17 Apr 1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4
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18 Apr 1951 "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
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18 Apr 1951 France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community
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18 Apr 1951 Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
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18 Apr 1951 New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game
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19 Apr 1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
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19 Apr 1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
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19 Apr 1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
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19 Apr 1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
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20 Apr 1951 Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ.
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20 Apr 1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak Atoll
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20 Apr 1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
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21 Apr 1951 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
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21 Apr 1951 Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1
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21 Apr 1951 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montr
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22 Apr 1951 Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in New York City
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22 Apr 1951 Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
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23 Apr 1951 American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
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23 Apr 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open
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24 Apr 1951 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
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25 Apr 1951 Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
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26 Apr 1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
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27 Apr 1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia
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29 Apr 1951 Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
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01 May 1951 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany
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01 May 1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
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01 May 1951 Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
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03 May 1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
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03 May 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
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03 May 1951 The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
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03 May 1951 London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
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05 May 1951 "Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
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05 May 1951 77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6
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06 May 1951 Pittsburgh Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
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07 May 1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
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07 May 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
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09 May 1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River
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10 May 1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
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11 May 1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
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12 May 1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
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13 May 1951 The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
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14 May 1951 "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
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14 May 1951 Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
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14 May 1951 Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
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14 May 1951 Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley" premieres at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
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15 May 1951 AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders
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15 May 1951 The Polish cultural attaché in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
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15 May 1951 AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have one million stockholders
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16 May 1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
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18 May 1951 UN moves HQ to New York City
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18 May 1951 UN moves HQ to NYC
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18 May 1951 US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
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19 May 1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4
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19 May 1951 UN begins counter offensive in Korea
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21 May 1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
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23 May 1951 Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with China.
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23 May 1951 Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London
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24 May 1951 Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal
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24 May 1951 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
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24 May 1951 Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants
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25 May 1951 New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
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26 May 1951 Vaughan Williams "Pilgrim's Progress" premieres in London
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27 May 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
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27 May 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Fransisco opens
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28 May 1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st HR
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28 May 1951 Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
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28 May 1951 The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
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28 May 1951 After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st homerun (also his 1st major league hit)
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28 May 1951 Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's assistant of Utrecht
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28 May 1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
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29 May 1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
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30 May 1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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31 May 1951 Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord
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01 Jun 1951 1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada)
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01 Jun 1951 International Cheese treaty signed
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04 Jun 1951 Mississippi Valley State University founded
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09 Jun 1951 "Doodles Weaver Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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11 Jun 1951 New York Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found
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11 Jun 1951 Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
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13 Jun 1951 UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea
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14 Jun 1951 UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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14 Jun 1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
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15 Jun 1951 1st coml electronic computer dedicated Philadelphia
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15 Jun 1951 Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory
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16 Jun 1951 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
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16 Jun 1951 Ben Hogan wins golf's US open for 2nd year in a row
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17 Jun 1951 "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
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18 Jun 1951 De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election
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20 Jun 1951 Cleveland Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double and single vs. Red Sox
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21 Jun 1951 "17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances
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22 Jun 1951 Gene Rayburn and Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio
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23 Jun 1951 Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
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23 Jun 1951 British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR
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24 Jun 1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
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25 Jun 1951 1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities
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27 Jun 1951 M Itzigsohn discovers asteroid #1588 Descamisada
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28 Jun 1951 "Amos 'n' Andy" premiers on CBS TV
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30 Jun 1951 "Victor Borge Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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30 Jun 1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination
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01 Jul 1951 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 2-1
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02 Jul 1951 Bill Veeck buys St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt
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02 Jul 1951 Bob and Ray show premieres on NBC radio
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02 Jul 1951 Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester vs. Scotland
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02 Jul 1951 Island advisor of Curacao installed
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02 Jul 1951 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
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03 Jul 1951 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont Country Club - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
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04 Jul 1951 A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage.
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04 Jul 1951 William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor.
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05 Jul 1951 Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ)
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06 Jul 1951 65th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (64 64 64)
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07 Jul 1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
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08 Jul 1951 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and mgr Casey Stengel feud
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09 Jul 1951 President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
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10 Jul 1951 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
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10 Jul 1951 Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
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10 Jul 1951 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
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10 Jul 1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1609 Brenda
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10 Jul 1951 NL beats AL 8-3 in 18th All Star Game (Briggs Stadium, Detroit)
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12 Jul 1951 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois
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12 Jul 1951 New York Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
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14 Jul 1951 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
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14 Jul 1951 George Washington Carver monument unveiled
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14 Jul 1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
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14 Jul 1951 Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
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16 Jul 1951 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
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16 Jul 1951 King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates
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16 Jul 1951 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks vs. Surrey at The Oval
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16 Jul 1951 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by JD Salinger published
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16 Jul 1951 King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
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16 Jul 1951 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
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16 Jul 1951 Novel "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger published
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17 Jul 1951 King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
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18 Jul 1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 7 for hw boxing title
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18 Jul 1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
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18 Jul 1951 Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Ezzard Charles in 5 for heavyweight belt
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18 Jul 1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
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19 Jul 1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
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20 Jul 1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
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21 Jul 1951 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
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22 Jul 1951 Gen Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
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22 Jul 1951 Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
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25 Jul 1951 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1714 Sy
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26 Jul 1951 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
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26 Jul 1951 Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom.
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28 Jul 1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances
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28 Jul 1951 Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released
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30 Jul 1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
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30 Jul 1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718
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03 Aug 1951 William H Jackson, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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05 Aug 1951 Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
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06 Aug 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria
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07 Aug 1951 Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 km/h
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07 Aug 1951 US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record)
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09 Aug 1951 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
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11 Aug 1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois
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11 Aug 1951 New York Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa
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11 Aug 1951 1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC)
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11 Aug 1951 NY Giants lose & 13
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12 Aug 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
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13 Aug 1951 Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract
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17 Aug 1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180)
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17 Aug 1951 Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica
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19 Aug 1951 Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
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22 Aug 1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
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25 Aug 1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
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26 Aug 1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
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28 Aug 1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
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28 Aug 1951 Pirates snap New York Giants 16 game win streak
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30 Aug 1951 US and Philippines sign mutual defense pact
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01 Sep 1951 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
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01 Sep 1951 US, Australia and New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty
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01 Sep 1951 The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
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02 Sep 1951 Australia, New Zealand and US sign ANZUS-pact
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03 Sep 1951 TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS
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03 Sep 1951 The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
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04 Sep 1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
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04 Sep 1951 71st US Mens Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
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04 Sep 1951 NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network
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04 Sep 1951 President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
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04 Sep 1951 The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
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05 Sep 1951 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (63 16 64)
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05 Sep 1951 71st US Mens Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (64 61 61)
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08 Sep 1951 Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (San Francisco)
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08 Sep 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex
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08 Sep 1951 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.
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09 Sep 1951 1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV
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09 Sep 1951 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open
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10 Sep 1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran
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11 Sep 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
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13 Sep 1951 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9 / 12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
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14 Sep 1951 Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats
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15 Sep 1951 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 performances
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15 Sep 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
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15 Sep 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
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16 Sep 1951 NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
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16 Sep 1951 Betsy Rawls wins the US Women's Open Golf title
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17 Sep 1951 "Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances
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17 Sep 1951 Romanian Bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years
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19 Sep 1951 1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV
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19 Sep 1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
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20 Sep 1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
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20 Sep 1951 Swiss males votes against female suffrage
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20 Sep 1951 1st North Pole jet crossing
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20 Sep 1951 Ford Frick elected commissioner of baseball
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21 Sep 1951 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000 m. in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
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24 Sep 1951 Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
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26 Sep 1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
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27 Sep 1951 Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
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28 Sep 1951 Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton
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28 Sep 1951 CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
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28 Sep 1951 Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18
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28 Sep 1951 Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards
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29 Sep 1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Philadelphia (CBS)
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29 Sep 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m and 10 mile
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29 Sep 1951 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.
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29 Sep 1951 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
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01 Oct 1951 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1
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01 Oct 1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson
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01 Oct 1951 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
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02 Oct 1951 1st Netherlands TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
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02 Oct 1951 Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
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03 Oct 1951 Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
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04 Oct 1951 In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
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06 Oct 1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
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07 Oct 1951 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
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08 Oct 1951 "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
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09 Oct 1951 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
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10 Oct 1951 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in world series, DiMaggio's final game (World Series #48)
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14 Oct 1951 Detroit Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs. LA Rams
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14 Oct 1951 Organization of Central American States forms
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15 Oct 1951 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
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15 Oct 1951 Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
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15 Oct 1951 Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
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15 Oct 1951 The first episode of I Love Lucy, an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley, airs on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
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15 Oct 1951 "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
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16 Oct 1951 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
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17 Oct 1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops
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19 Oct 1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
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20 Oct 1951 The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
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22 Oct 1951 Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
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24 Oct 1951 United Nations publishes its 1st postage stamps
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25 Oct 1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom
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26 Oct 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles
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26 Oct 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
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26 Oct 1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
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31 Oct 1951 Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman
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01 Nov 1951 "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
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01 Nov 1951 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico
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01 Nov 1951 Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP
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01 Nov 1951 Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP
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01 Nov 1951 Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
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01 Nov 1951 Johnny Mercers "Top Banana, " premieres in New York City
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01 Nov 1951 Operation Buster–Jangle: Six thousand five hundred American soldiers are exposed to 'Desert Rock' atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
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02 Nov 1951 Korean War: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.
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04 Nov 1951 New York Giants and New York Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
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07 Nov 1951 Constitution of Jordan passes
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08 Nov 1951 New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
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10 Nov 1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
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12 Nov 1951 "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
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12 Nov 1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL
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15 Nov 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
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18 Nov 1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
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18 Nov 1951 British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt
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18 Nov 1951 Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft
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18 Nov 1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
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19 Nov 1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
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20 Nov 1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park
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24 Nov 1951 "17" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
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24 Nov 1951 "Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 56 performances
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24 Nov 1951 39th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 21-14
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24 Nov 1951 British auto manufacturers Austin / Moris Motors merge
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25 Nov 1951 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
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25 Nov 1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL
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25 Nov 1951 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
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27 Nov 1951 1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico
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27 Nov 1951 Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
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28 Nov 1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
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29 Nov 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Premier
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29 Nov 1951 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
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01 Dec 1951 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)
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01 Dec 1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
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02 Dec 1951 "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
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02 Dec 1951 Philadelphia sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
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04 Dec 1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500
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05 Dec 1951 "Dragnet" premieres
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08 Dec 1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 performances
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11 Dec 1951 Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement
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12 Dec 1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
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13 Dec 1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
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17 Dec 1951 The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
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17 Dec 1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
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19 Dec 1951 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
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20 Dec 1951 The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
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21 Dec 1951 Libya becomes an independent country.
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21 Dec 1951 Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement
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22 Dec 1951 The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
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22 Dec 1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs West Indies at Adelaide
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23 Dec 1951 1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000); Los Angeles Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game
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23 Dec 1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity
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24 Dec 1951 Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
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24 Dec 1951 1st televised opera (Amahl & the Night Visitor)
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24 Dec 1951 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via the UN
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25 Dec 1951 West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wickets on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket
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27 Dec 1951 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2)
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29 Dec 1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
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31 Dec 1951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
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