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1951

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1951 by topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Archaeology - Aviation - Meteorology - Rail transport - Radio - Science
By country
Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - Mexico - South Africa
Other topics
Awards - Sport - Law - State leaders - Religious leaders Video gaming
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths

1951 (MCMLI in Roman) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar.

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Events

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January

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.

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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, Illinois. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg / 308 lbs
February 6 - A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more; one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
February 6 - Paul Harvey arrested for trying to break into Argonne National Laboratory.
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 tourture of a 73 year old bookmaker.
February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

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March

March 1 - Japanese cities Uji, Kyoto and Muroto, Kochi are 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.

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April

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.
April 21 - The National Olympic Committee of the USSR is formed
April 28 - Robert Menzies' Liberal Party government in Australia is re-elected for a second term.

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May

May 1 - Opera house of Geneva, Switzerland almost destroyed in a fire
May 3 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens.
May 3 - The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
May 14 - First volunteer-run passenger trains on Talyllyn Railway, Wales.
May 15 - Military coup in Bolivia

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June

June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.[1]
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.

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July

July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
July 10 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin.
July 13 - The Great Flood of 1951 reaches its highest point in Northeast Kansas, culminating in the greatest flood damage to date in the Midwestern United States.
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 Léopold 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.

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August

August 11 - René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France

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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 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

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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 7 - Malayan Emergency - communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney
October 15 - First oral contraceptive invented by Luis E. Miramontes
October 16 - Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan
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

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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 20 - Po river floods in northern Italy
November 24 - The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character.

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December

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 - EBR-1, World's first (experimental) nuclear power plant.
December 24 - Libya becomes independent from Italy

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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.
IBM United Kingdom formed
1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute lasts for 151 days

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