1951 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1951?
- January 6, 1951 – Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
- 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.
- February 6, 1951 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 27, 1951 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
- March 6, 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- April 11, 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
- April 23, 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- May 3, 1951 – London’s Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain
- May 14, 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.
- 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.
- May 23, 1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People’s Republic of China.
- June 14, 1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- 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 22, 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
- September 4, 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- September 8, 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.
- October 15, 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 two oral contraceptives.
- October 20, 1951 – The “Johnny Bright Incident” occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- 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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