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.
- 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.
- March 20, 1951 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
- March 29, 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- April 11, 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
- April 19, 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- July 16, 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
- July 20, 1951 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- July 26, 1951 – Walt Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom.
- September 1, 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- September 3, 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
- September 4, 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- 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.
- October 16, 1951 – The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
- October 20, 1951 – The “Johnny Bright Incident” occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
- 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 22, 1951 – The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
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