1951 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1951?
- January 15, 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.
- January 27, 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
- February 6, 1951 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 9, 1951 – Geochang massacre: Korean War
- February 25, 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- February 27, 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- March 3, 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.
- March 14, 1951 – Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- April 11, 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.
- April 17, 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom’s first National Park.
- April 29, 1951 – Tibetan delegates to the Central People’s Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.
- May 3, 1951 – London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
- May 28, 1951 – British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.
- July 10, 1951 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- July 16, 1951 – King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
- July 26, 1951 – Walt Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom.
- October 16, 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- November 1, 1951 – Operation Buster-Jangle: 6,500 American soldiers are exposed to ‘Desert Rock’atomic explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary.
- December 24, 1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
- December 31, 1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
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