1951 Calendar
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1951 Historical Event(s)
February 6, 1951
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
February 25, 1951
– The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
May 15, 1951
– The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
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.
July 4, 1951
– A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on a charge of espionage.
July 5, 1951
– William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
July 10, 1951
– Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
July 16, 1951
– The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company.
October 16, 1951
– The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
November 15, 1951
– Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
Who Were Born On 1951?
January 4, 1951
– Bob Black, American author, anarchist
March 4, 1951
– Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
July 1, 1951
– Trevor Eve, British actor
July 8, 1951
– Anjelica Huston, American actress
August 15, 1951
– John Childs, England cricketer
September 27, 1951
– Jim Shooter, American comic book writer
October 6, 1951
– Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)
October 14, 1951
– Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
November 4, 1951
– Traian Băsescu, President of Romania