1951 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1951?
- January 27, 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
- February 6, 1951 – The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- February 9, 1951 – Geochang massacre: Korean War
- 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 29, 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 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 19, 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
- May 3, 1951 – The United States Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
- May 23, 1951 – Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People’s Republic of China.
- July 5, 1951 – William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
- July 16, 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
- 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 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.
- September 28, 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- October 3, 1951 – The “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.
- December 20, 1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
- December 24, 1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
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