
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1948 1949 1950 - 1951 - 1952 1953 1954 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see common year starting on Monday. ==Events== ===January=== * January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City). * January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. * January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul. * January 20 - Avalanches in the Alps - 240 die and 45.000 are buried for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy * January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. ===February=== * February 1 - United Nations General Assembly declares that China is the aggressor in the Korean War * February 6 - A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more; one of the worst rail disasters in American history. * February 12 - Marriage of Muhammad Reza Shah to Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari * February 19- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia. When,Lee and her two pimps are hanged for the murder and tourture of a 73 year old bookmaker. * February 24 - [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=nestor&gwp=11&ver=1.0.2.84&method=2, Nestor] is born at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada * February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting President of the United States to two terms, is ratified. ===March=== * March 6 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. * March 7 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against the People's Republic of China "volunteers". * March 12 - The ''Dennis the Menace (US)'' comic strip appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time. * March 14 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul. * March 14 - West Germany joins UNESCO * March 29 - Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty. * March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. ===April=== * April 1 - Australia, New Zealand, United States security treaty signed in San Francisco. * April 1 - Female suffrage in Greece * April 11 - Stone of Scone found in Scottish church * April 18 - Treaty of Paris (1951) adopted, establishing European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); see EU. * April 21 - The National Olympic Committee of the USSR is formed * April 28 - Menzies Govt Re-elected for 2nd term ===May=== * May 1 - Opera house of Geneva almost destroyed in a fire * May 3 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens. * May 3 - 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 S. Truman. * May 14 - First volunteer-run passenger trains on Talyllyn Railway, Wales. * May 15 - Military coup in Bolivia ===June=== * June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by United States Bureau of the Census.[http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/] * June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres (several km²) of forests were destroyed in fires. ===July=== * July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor. * July 10 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin. * July 14 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. * July 16 - King Leopold III of Belgium signs the act of abdication in favour of his son Baudouin of Belgium. * July 17 - Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium, after his father abdicated the day before. * July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. ===September=== * September 1 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States"). * September 8 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. * September 10 - The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran. * September 20 - NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members * September 26-September 28 - Blue sun seen over Europe; effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires four months previously Á===October=== * October 3 - "Shot Heard 'Round the World" One of the greatest moments in baseball history occurs when the NY Giants Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth off of the Brooklyn Dodgers Ralph Branca,to win the pennant after being down 14 games. October 7 - Malayan Emergency - communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney * October 16 - Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan * October 21 - Storm in southern Italy - over 100 dead * October 26 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden * October 27 - Farouk of Egypt declares himself also as a king of Sudan - no support ===November=== * November 1 - First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert * November 11 - Juan Peron re-elected president of Argentina * November 20 - Po river floods in northern Italy * November 10 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. * November 24 - The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character. ===December=== * December 6 - State of emergency in Egypt due to increasing riots * December 13 - Water tank collapses in Tucamcari, New Mexico - 4 dead, 200 buildings destroyed * December 16 - Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. * December 24 - Libya becomes independent from Italy ===Undated=== * A fourth, and final, forest fire starts in the Tillamook Burn; but unlike earlier fires this one only burns 32,700 acres (132 km²), and within area already affected by the earlier fires. * IBM United Kingdom formed ==Year in topic== * 1951 in film **An American in Paris (movie) **The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn **A Streetcar Named Desire **''Flying Leathernecks'' starring John Wayne * 1951 in literature **The Catcher in the Rye * 1951 in music **The release of "Rocket 88", a song by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. Some music historians consider this record to be the first Rock and roll recording. * 1951 in rail transport **Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico de Mexico (predecessor of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico) is sold to the Mexico government. * 1951 in sports * 1951 in television **January 3 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC). **May 28 - The U. S. Supreme Court upholds the Federal Communications Commission's approval of the CBS color television system **June 25 ? CBS presents its first commercial color telecast with Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson. **June - RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system. **August 11 - The first baseball games televised in color, a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves **September 4 - The first coast-to-coast TV broadcast in the United States, featuring President Truman. **September 22 - 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 3 - The first live coast-to-coast network telecast of a World Series game in the United States **October 15 - I Love Lucy debuts on CBS. **December 24 - The first televised opera written for television, ''Amahl and the Night Visitor'', airs on NBC. **Ernie Kovacs' ''Time for Ernie'' and ''Ernie in Kovacsland'' television shows premiere. Kovacs pushes the limits of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects. ==Births== ===January-March=== * January 6 - Kim Wilson, blues singer and harmonica player * January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress **Rush Limbaugh, radio personality * January 30 - Phil Collins, English musician * February 6 - Princess Daphné of Belgium * February 14 - Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager * February 15 - Melissa Manchester, singer * February 15 - Jane Seymour (actress), actress *February 18 - Dale Earnhardt, American racing car driver (d. 2001) * February 19 - Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader * February 20 - Gordon Brown, Scottish politician * February 25 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter * March 4 - Kenny Dalglish Scottish footballer and football manager * March 4 - Chris Rea, British singer and musician * March 8 - Karen Kain, Canada ballerina * March 17 - Kurt Russell, actor * March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer ===April-June=== * April 6 - Bert Blyleven, baseball pitcher * April 7 - Janis Ian, singer and songwriter * April 10 - Steven Seagal, actor * April 11 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite and murder victim (d. 1997) * April 13 - Peabo Bryson, pop singer **Peter Davison, actor and the fifth Doctor Who **Max Weinberg, drummer * April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, stock car racing (NASCAR) (d. 2001) * May 10 - Michael Tarn, actor * May 13 - Sharon Sayles Belton, mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota * May 15 - Jonathan Richman, musician * May 19 - Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), American musician, vocalist with The Ramones (d. 2001) * May 23 - Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion * May 26 - Sally Ride, astronaut * May 30 - Stephen Tobolowsky, actor * June 2 - Larry Robinson, Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman * June 14 - Paul Boateng, British politician, first black Cabinet of the United Kingdom minister * June 17 - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland * June 20 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress ===July-September=== * July 3 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer * July 5 - Rich Gossage, baseball pitcher * July 8 - Anjelica Huston, actress * July 10 - Cheryl Wheeler, singer/songwriter * June 28 - Lloyd Maines, country music musician and record producer * July 24 - Chris Smith (UK politician), British politician, first "out" gay Member of Parliament * August 3 - Marcel Dionne, Hockey Hall of Famer * August 6 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality * August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author * August 23 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya * August 23 - Queen Noor of Jordan * August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author * September 7 - Julie Kavner, voice actress * September 12 - Joe Pantoliano, actor * September 22 - David Coverdale, singer * September 25 - Mark Hamill, actor * September 29 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977) * September 29 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler ===October-December=== * October 3 - Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer * October 3 - Keb Mo', blues musician * October 6 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver * October 7 - John Mellencamp, musician/songwriter * October 10 - Epeli Ganilau, Fiji soldier and statesman * October 11 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter * October 26 - Bootsy Collins, funk musician, singer, songwriter * October 30 - Harry Hamlin, actor * November 11 - Marc Summers, television host * November 15 - Alamgir Hashmi, poet, scholar, professor * November 19 - Lord Falconer, United Kingdom lawyer and politician * November 24 - Chet Edwards, American politician * November 26 - Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, erotic actress, politician * November 30 - Christian Bernard, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, Imperator of AMORC *December 12 - Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001) * December 17 - Ken Hitchcock, National Hockey League coach * December 30 - Meredith Viera, television host ==Deaths== ===January-March=== *January 7 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886) *January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, writer *January 29 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880). *February 9 - Eddy Duchin, musician *February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author *February 18 - Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer *February 19 - André Gide, French writer (b. 1869) *February 21 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895) *March 6 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer *March 10 - Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese prime minister *March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871) *March 25 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887) * March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, American filmmaker ===April-June=== *April 4 - Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer *April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist *April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist *April 23 - Charles G. Dawes, former U.S. vice-president *May 7 - Warner Baxter, actor *May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author *June 4 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874) *June 13 - Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister *June 21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (b. 1867) ===July-September=== *July 9 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1894) *July 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer *July 20 - Abdullah I of Jordan, King of Jordan *July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker *July 29 - Hozumi Shigeto, List of Japanese authors *August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher *August 15 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882) *August 21 - Constant Lambert, composer ===October-December=== *October 16 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan *November 5 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete *November 9 - Sigmund Romberg, composer *November 13 - Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Russian pianist/composer ==Nobel Prizes== * Nobel Prize in Physics - John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Edwin McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg * Nobel Prize in Medicine - Max Theiler * Nobel Prize in literature - Pär Lagerkvist * Nobel Peace Prize - Leon Jouhaux 1951 ga:1951 kw:1951 la:1951 simple:1951
== page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). User talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 14:28, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
1950s simple:Category:1951
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1951
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1948 1949 1950 - 1951 - 1952 1953 1954 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
|} 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see common year starting on Monday. ==Events== ===January=== * January 9 - United Nations headquarters officially opens (New York City). * January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. * January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul. * January 20 - Avalanches in the Alps - 240 die and 45.000 are buried for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy * January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. ===February=== * February 1 - United Nations General Assembly declares that China is the aggressor in the Korean War * February 6 - A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more; one of the worst rail disasters in American history. * February 12 - Marriage of Muhammad Reza Shah to Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari * February 19- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia. When,Lee and her two pimps are hanged for the murder and tourture of a 73 year old bookmaker. * February 24 - [http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=nestor&gwp=11&ver=1.0.2.84&method=2, Nestor] is born at St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada * February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting President of the United States to two terms, is ratified. ===March=== * March 6 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins. * March 7 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against the People's Republic of China "volunteers". * March 12 - The ''Dennis the Menace (US)'' comic strip appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time. * March 14 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul. * March 14 - West Germany joins UNESCO * March 29 - Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty. * March 30 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. ===April=== * April 1 - Australia, New Zealand, United States security treaty signed in San Francisco. * April 1 - Female suffrage in Greece * April 11 - Stone of Scone found in Scottish church * April 18 - Treaty of Paris (1951) adopted, establishing European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); see EU. * April 21 - The National Olympic Committee of the USSR is formed * April 28 - Menzies Govt Re-elected for 2nd term ===May=== * May 1 - Opera house of Geneva almost destroyed in a fire * May 3 - London's Royal Festival Hall opens. * May 3 - 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 S. Truman. * May 14 - First volunteer-run passenger trains on Talyllyn Railway, Wales. * May 15 - Military coup in Bolivia ===June=== * June 14 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by United States Bureau of the Census.[http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/] * June 15 - July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres (several km²) of forests were destroyed in fires. ===July=== * July 5 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor. * July 10 - Korean War: At Kaesong, armistice negotiations begin. * July 14 - In Joplin, Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. * July 16 - King Leopold III of Belgium signs the act of abdication in favour of his son Baudouin of Belgium. * July 17 - Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium, after his father abdicated the day before. * July 20 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. ===September=== * September 1 - The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty (for "Australia, New Zealand, United States"). * September 8 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign Sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War. * September 10 - The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran. * September 20 - NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members * September 26-September 28 - Blue sun seen over Europe; effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires four months previously Á===October=== * October 3 - "Shot Heard 'Round the World" One of the greatest moments in baseball history occurs when the NY Giants Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth off of the Brooklyn Dodgers Ralph Branca,to win the pennant after being down 14 games. October 7 - Malayan Emergency - communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney * October 16 - Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, president of Pakistan * October 21 - Storm in southern Italy - over 100 dead * October 26 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden * October 27 - Farouk of Egypt declares himself also as a king of Sudan - no support ===November=== * November 1 - First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert * November 11 - Juan Peron re-elected president of Argentina * November 20 - Po river floods in northern Italy * November 10 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. * November 24 - The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character. ===December=== * December 6 - State of emergency in Egypt due to increasing riots * December 13 - Water tank collapses in Tucamcari, New Mexico - 4 dead, 200 buildings destroyed * December 16 - Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. * December 24 - Libya becomes independent from Italy ===Undated=== * A fourth, and final, forest fire starts in the Tillamook Burn; but unlike earlier fires this one only burns 32,700 acres (132 km²), and within area already affected by the earlier fires. * IBM United Kingdom formed ==Year in topic== * 1951 in film **An American in Paris (movie) **The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn **A Streetcar Named Desire **''Flying Leathernecks'' starring John Wayne * 1951 in literature **The Catcher in the Rye * 1951 in music **The release of "Rocket 88", a song by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. Some music historians consider this record to be the first Rock and roll recording. * 1951 in rail transport **Southern Pacific Railroad subsidiary Sud Pacifico de Mexico (predecessor of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico) is sold to the Mexico government. * 1951 in sports * 1951 in television **January 3 - Dragnet airs on television for the first time (NBC). **May 28 - The U. S. Supreme Court upholds the Federal Communications Commission's approval of the CBS color television system **June 25 ? CBS presents its first commercial color telecast with Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan, and Faye Emerson. **June - RCA demonstrates its new electronic color system. **August 11 - The first baseball games televised in color, a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves **September 4 - The first coast-to-coast TV broadcast in the United States, featuring President Truman. **September 22 - 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 3 - The first live coast-to-coast network telecast of a World Series game in the United States **October 15 - I Love Lucy debuts on CBS. **December 24 - The first televised opera written for television, ''Amahl and the Night Visitor'', airs on NBC. **Ernie Kovacs' ''Time for Ernie'' and ''Ernie in Kovacsland'' television shows premiere. Kovacs pushes the limits of television technology with his use of camera tricks and special effects. ==Births== ===January-March=== * January 6 - Kim Wilson, blues singer and harmonica player * January 12 - Kirstie Alley, actress **Rush Limbaugh, radio personality * January 30 - Phil Collins, English musician * February 6 - Princess Daphné of Belgium * February 14 - Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager * February 15 - Melissa Manchester, singer * February 15 - Jane Seymour (actress), actress *February 18 - Dale Earnhardt, American racing car driver (d. 2001) * February 19 - Tahir-ul-Qadri, Islamic scholar and leader * February 20 - Gordon Brown, Scottish politician * February 25 - Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter * March 4 - Kenny Dalglish Scottish footballer and football manager * March 4 - Chris Rea, British singer and musician * March 8 - Karen Kain, Canada ballerina * March 17 - Kurt Russell, actor * March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer ===April-June=== * April 6 - Bert Blyleven, baseball pitcher * April 7 - Janis Ian, singer and songwriter * April 10 - Steven Seagal, actor * April 11 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite and murder victim (d. 1997) * April 13 - Peabo Bryson, pop singer **Peter Davison, actor and the fifth Doctor Who **Max Weinberg, drummer * April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, stock car racing (NASCAR) (d. 2001) * May 10 - Michael Tarn, actor * May 13 - Sharon Sayles Belton, mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota * May 15 - Jonathan Richman, musician * May 19 - Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hyman), American musician, vocalist with The Ramones (d. 2001) * May 23 - Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion * May 26 - Sally Ride, astronaut * May 30 - Stephen Tobolowsky, actor * June 2 - Larry Robinson, Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman * June 14 - Paul Boateng, British politician, first black Cabinet of the United Kingdom minister * June 17 - Mary McAleese, eighth President of Ireland * June 20 - Tress MacNeille, voice actress ===July-September=== * July 3 - Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer * July 5 - Rich Gossage, baseball pitcher * July 8 - Anjelica Huston, actress * July 10 - Cheryl Wheeler, singer/songwriter * June 28 - Lloyd Maines, country music musician and record producer * July 24 - Chris Smith (UK politician), British politician, first "out" gay Member of Parliament * August 3 - Marcel Dionne, Hockey Hall of Famer * August 6 - Daryl Somers, Australian television personality * August 20 - Greg Bear, science fiction author * August 23 - Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya * August 23 - Queen Noor of Jordan * August 24 - Orson Scott Card, science fiction author * September 7 - Julie Kavner, voice actress * September 12 - Joe Pantoliano, actor * September 22 - David Coverdale, singer * September 25 - Mark Hamill, actor * September 29 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977) * September 29 - Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler ===October-December=== * October 3 - Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer * October 3 - Keb Mo', blues musician * October 6 - Manfred Winkelhock, auto racing driver * October 7 - John Mellencamp, musician/songwriter * October 10 - Epeli Ganilau, Fiji soldier and statesman * October 11 - Jean-Jacques Goldman, French pop singer, songwriter * October 26 - Bootsy Collins, funk musician, singer, songwriter * October 30 - Harry Hamlin, actor * November 11 - Marc Summers, television host * November 15 - Alamgir Hashmi, poet, scholar, professor * November 19 - Lord Falconer, United Kingdom lawyer and politician * November 24 - Chet Edwards, American politician * November 26 - Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, erotic actress, politician * November 30 - Christian Bernard, F.R.C., Rosicrucian, Imperator of AMORC *December 12 - Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001) * December 17 - Ken Hitchcock, National Hockey League coach * December 30 - Meredith Viera, television host ==Deaths== ===January-March=== *January 7 - René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886) *January 10 - Sinclair Lewis, writer *January 29 - Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880). *February 9 - Eddy Duchin, musician *February 13 - Lloyd C. Douglas, author *February 18 - Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer *February 19 - André Gide, French writer (b. 1869) *February 21 - Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founding father of Pakistan (b. 1895) *March 6 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, composer *March 10 - Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese prime minister *March 21 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871) *March 25 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1887) * March 25 - Oscar Micheaux, American filmmaker ===April-June=== *April 4 - Al Christie, early Hollywood director/producer *April 6 - Robert Broom, paleontologist *April 22 - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist *April 23 - Charles G. Dawes, former U.S. vice-president *May 7 - Warner Baxter, actor *May 30 - Hermann Broch, Austrian author *June 4 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874) *June 13 - Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister *June 21 - Charles Dillon Perrine, astronomer (b. 1867) ===July-September=== *July 9 - Harry Heilmann, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1894) *July 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer *July 20 - Abdullah I of Jordan, King of Jordan *July 23 - Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker *July 29 - Hozumi Shigeto, List of Japanese authors *August 14 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher *August 15 - Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882) *August 21 - Constant Lambert, composer ===October-December=== *October 16 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan *November 5 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete *November 9 - Sigmund Romberg, composer *November 13 - Nikolai Karlovich Medtner, Russian pianist/composer ==Nobel Prizes== * Nobel Prize in Physics - John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton * Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Edwin McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg * Nobel Prize in Medicine - Max Theiler * Nobel Prize in literature - Pär Lagerkvist * Nobel Peace Prize - Leon Jouhaux 1951 ga:1951 kw:1951 la:1951 simple:1951
1951
== page layout years== There is a discussion on my talk page on page layout. For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages. Prior to 1950 I am pretty convinced we can painlessly (except for sore fingers) delete all of the year in topic paragraphs and ensure that the material goes into a "see also" box, creating such a box where none exists. Post 1950, particularly from the "year in US television" link a lot of material has been added to this paragraph as highlights (sometimes making up most of the page content pointed at). Personally I think we should still delete the paragraph, keep the box linking to the topic sites and move any particularly important parts of the year in topic paragraph to the main chronological list. This does involve undoing quite a bit of work which someone has done. Therefore, unlike for prior to 1950 (where I've said no objection= I do it) for post 1950 I won't touch these pages unless a significant number of people agree with the change. (I am also unlikely to get the pre 1950 stuff done before summer unless the service speed improves dramatically). User talk:BozMo--User:BozMo 14:28, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
1951
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