1951 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1951?
- January 6, 1951 – Ganghwa massacre: Korean War.
- January 13, 1951 – First Indochina War: The Battle of Vinh Yen begins, which will end in a major victory for France.
- 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 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.
- April 23, 1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
- 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 13, 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.
- June 14, 1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- July 5, 1951 – William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- November 10, 1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- 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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