1951 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1951?
- January 4, 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
- January 13, 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
- February 6, 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.
- February 13, 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the “high-water mark” of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
- February 27, 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- March 14, 1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- March 31, 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- April 5, 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union.
- April 17, 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom’s first National Park.
- May 21, 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.
- July 10, 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- July 22, 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
- September 1, 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- September 29, 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.
- November 10, 1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- November 15, 1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
- December 20, 1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
- December 22, 1951 – The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
- December 24, 1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
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