Page 2: Historical Events In 1951

Jan 22   Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom on this day in history.   

Jan 22   Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Jan 22   The Canadian destroyer HMCS Huron is put under United Nations command for service off Korea in the year 1951.   

Jan 23   3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young &Gertrude Berg in the year 1951.   

Jan 23   On this day in history 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg   

Jan 24   On this day in history dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns   

Jan 24   Dutch govt Drees-van Schaik resigns in the year 1951.   

Jan 25   UN begins counter offensive in Korea in the year 1951.   

Jan 26   Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on this day in history.   

Jan 27   On this day in history "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 320 performances   

Jan 27   On this day in history "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances   

Jan 27   The Air Force tests a one-kiloton atomic bomb at Frenchman Flats in the Nevada desert on this day in history.   

Jan 28   In the year 1951 "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination &is the first X-rated movie, opened in London   

Jan 28   Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867) in the year 1951.   

Jan 28   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Jan 29   In the year 1951 "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances   

Jan 29   In the year 1951 james Bridie, [Osborne Henry Mavor], dramatist, dies   

Jan 29   Liz Taylor's first divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr) in the year 1951.   

Jan 30   Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio in the year 1951.   

Jan 30   On this day in history ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75   

Feb 01   -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record) on this day in history.   

Feb 01   On this day in history alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed   

Feb 01   In the year 1951 first telecast of atomic explosion   

Feb 01   The first X-ray moving picture process demonstrated in the year 1951.   

Feb 01   In the year 1951 uN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea   

Feb 01   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 02   On this day in history -35ºF (-37ºC), Greenburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)   

Feb 02   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site on this day in history.   

Feb 03   In the year 1951 "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV   

Feb 03   Dick Button win US skating title for 6th time on this day in history.   

Feb 04   On this day in history uS female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer   

Feb 04   US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button in the year 1951.   

Feb 06   In the year 1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84   

Feb 06   On this day in history radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of nadia Cassini, [Gianna Lou Muller], Woodstock NY, model (Oui)   

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of alexander Pogrebinsky, Russian painter   

Jan 03   Frank Chikane, sec-gen of S Afr Council of Churches was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   In the year 1951 birth of gary Nairn, Australian politician   

Jan 04   Barbara Ann Cochran, Claremont NH, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1972) was born in the year 1951.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of steve Arnold, English footballer   

Jan 07   Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut (TM-19, TM-27) was born in the year 1951.   

Jan 07   In the year 1951 birth of mike Ward, Democratic Congressman for Kentucky & radio talk show host   

Jan 02   In the year 1951 death of sir William Campion, Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)   

Jan 03   Fred Barlow, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51 in the year 1951.   

Jan 07   In the year 1951 johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim, painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76   

Jan 10   Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59 on this day in history.   

Jan 18   In the year 1951 robert Mark, US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41   

Jan 19   In the year 1951 constantin Nottara, composer, dies at 60   

Jan 22   Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.