Notable Historical Events - 1951
1951 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines |
Jan 2 |
Philip Barry's "Second Threshold," premieres in NYC |
Jan 3 |
9 Jewish Kremlin physicians "exposed" as British/US agents |
Jan 3 |
Fred Wilt wins AAU Sullivan Memorial Trophy (US athlete of 1950) |
Jan 4 |
During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul |
Jan 5 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open |
Jan 6 |
"Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 perfs |
Jan 6 |
Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes |
Jan 8 |
Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda |
Jan 9 |
Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres |
Jan 9 |
Washington Capitals NBA club folds |
Jan 10 |
1st jet passenger trip made |
Jan 10 |
UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY |
Jan 12 |
Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jan 13 |
German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison |
Jan 14 |
NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27 |
Jan 15 |
"Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 |
Jan 15 |
Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest |
Jan 16 |
Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi |
Jan 16 |
World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC) |
Jan 17 |
China refuses ceases-fire in Korea |
Jan 18 |
1st use of lie detector in Netherlands |
Jan 18 |
Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" |
Jan 18 |
NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass |
Jan 18 |
NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts |
Jan 21 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
Jan 22 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom |
Jan 22 |
Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter |
Jan 23 |
3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg win |
Jan 24 |
Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns |
Jan 25 |
UN begins counter offensive in Korea |
Jan 26 |
Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 27 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances |
Jan 27 |
US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 28 |
"La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination & is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London |
Jan 29 |
"Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances |
Jan 29 |
Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million |
Jan 30 |
Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio |
Feb 1 |
-50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record) |
Feb 1 |
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated |
Feb 1 |
1st telecast of atomic explosion |
Feb 1 |
Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed |
Feb 1 |
UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea |
Feb 1 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 2 |
-35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994) |
Feb 2 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 3 |
"Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV |
Feb 3 |
Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time |
Feb 3 |
Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle |
Feb 3 |
Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC |
Feb 4 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer |
Feb 4 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
Feb 6 |
"Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84 |
Feb 6 |
Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago |
Feb 6 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security |
Feb 9 |
St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45 |
Feb 10 |
"John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 |
Feb 11 |
Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) |
Feb 14 |
Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title |
Feb 16 |
NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing |
Feb 16 |
SF City Hall dome fire |
Feb 18 |
3 City College of NY basketball players admit to accepting bribes |
Feb 18 |
Nepal becomes a constitutional monarchy |
Feb 18 |
Netherlands Radio School forms |
Feb 21 |
SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated |
Feb 24 |
"Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs |
Feb 24 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER |
Feb 24 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB |
Feb 24 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA |
Feb 25 |
"Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf |
Feb 25 |
1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina) |
Feb 25 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament |
Feb 26 |
Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia |
Feb 27 |
22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms |
Feb 28 |
French government of Pleven dissolves |
Feb 28 |
Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates |
Mar 2 |
1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston |
Mar 3 |
Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts |
Mar 6 |
Belgium extends conscription to 24 months |
Mar 7 |
Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for hw boxing title |
Mar 7 |
Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden" premieres in NYC |
Mar 8 |
Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel) |
Mar 9 |
Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb |
Mar 10 |
"Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 perfs |
Mar 10 |
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner |
Mar 12 |
Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office |
Mar 12 |
Communist troops driven out of Seoul |
Mar 13 |
2nd Dutch government of Drees forms |
Mar 13 |
Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany |
Mar 14 |
During Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul |
Mar 14 |
Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany |
Mar 15 |
Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company |
Mar 17 |
Government of Drees takes power |
Mar 17 |
Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch |
Mar 18 |
Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Mar 19 |
Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny" published |
Mar 20 |
Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java |
Mar 20 |
Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded. |
Mar 21 |
2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea |
Mar 21 |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage |
Mar 23 |
Wages in France increase 11% |
Mar 25 |
5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win |
Mar 25 |
E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab |
Mar 26 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open |
Mar 26 |
USAF flag approved |
Mar 27 |
13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58 |
Mar 27 |
Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You" |
Mar 29 |
"King & I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances |
Mar 29 |
23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve", Judy Holliday & J Ferrer win |
Mar 29 |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of spying |
Mar 31 |
US tanks exceed 38° of latitude in Korea |
Apr 3 |
Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners" premieres in Oxford |
Apr 4 |
Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan & Eva Peron in Buenos Aires |
Apr 5 |
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death |
Apr 7 |
15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 7 |
American Bowling Congress begins 1st masters tournament |
Apr 7 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
Apr 11 |
US President Harry Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur |
Apr 12 |
Israeli Knesset officially designated April 13 as Holocaust Day |
Apr 15 |
Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao |
Apr 16 |
British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75 |
Apr 17 |
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle's 1st game, he goes 1 for 4 |
Apr 18 |
"Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances |
Apr 18 |
Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms |
Apr 18 |
France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community |
Apr 19 |
"Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 perfs |
Apr 19 |
55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45 |
Apr 19 |
Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career |
Apr 20 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
Apr 20 |
Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators |
Apr 21 |
5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 21 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 1 |
Apr 22 |
Ticker-tape parade for General MacArthur in NYC |
Apr 23 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open |
Apr 24 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open |
Apr 26 |
Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum |
Apr 27 |
Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia |
May 1 |
600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany |
May 1 |
Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir |
May 1 |
Mickey Mantle's 1st HR |
May 1 |
Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox |
May 3 |
Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning |
May 3 |
NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th) |
May 3 |
Royal Festival Hall opens in London |
May 3 |
The Festival of Britain opens. |
May 5 |
"Out of This World" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 perfs |
May 5 |
77th Kentucky Derby: Conn McCreary aboard Count Turf wins in 2:02.6 |
May 6 |
Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0 |
May 7 |
Intl Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) |
May 8 |
Dacron men's suits introduced |
May 8 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak |
May 9 |
Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River |
May 10 |
Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council |
May 11 |
Jay Forrester patents computer core memory |
May 12 |
1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll |
May 14 |
Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances |
May 14 |
Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC |
May 15 |
AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders |
May 15 |
The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum. |
May 16 |
The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines. |
May 18 |
UN moves HQ to NYC |
May 18 |
US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea |
May 19 |
77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4 |
May 19 |
UN begins counter offensive in Korea |
May 21 |
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 know as the New York School. |
May 23 |
Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels" premieres in London |
May 24 |
Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal |
May 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
May 25 |
NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5) |
May 26 |
Vaughan Williams' "Pilgrim's Progress" premieres in London |
May 27 |
Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing |
May 27 |
Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens |
May 28 |
After going 0-for-12, Willie Mays connects for his 1st major league home run |
May 28 |
Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht |
May 28 |
Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV |
May 29 |
1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair |
May 30 |
Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Lee Wallard wins in 3:57:38.103 (203.170 km/h) |
May 31 |
Netherlands & South Africa sign cultural accord |
Jun 1 |
1st self-contained titanium plant opens (Henderson Nevada) |
Jun 1 |
International Cheese treaty signed |
Jun 2 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones |
Jun 4 |
Mississippi Valley State University founded |
Jun 4 |
Pirate's' Gus Bell hits for cycle helps beat Phillies 12-4 |
Jun 9 |
"Doodles Weaver Show" debuts on NBC-TV |
Jun 11 |
Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal |
Jun 11 |
NY Times reports the NYC subway will auction off things found |
Jun 13 |
UN arm forces reach Pyongyang Korea |
Jun 14 |
"Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances |
Jun 14 |
1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau |
Jun 15 |
1st coml electronic computer dedicated Phila |
Jun 15 |
Joe Louis scored his last knock out victory |
Jun 16 |
51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich |
Jun 16 |
83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29 |
Jun 17 |
"Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances |
Jun 18 |
De Gaulle wins French parliamentary election |
Jun 18 |
In South Africa, the Suppression of Communism Act commences. |
Jun 20 |
Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox |
Jun 21 |
"17" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 180 performances |
Jun 21 |
Patty Berg wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
Jun 22 |
Gene Rayburn & Dee Finch show premieres on NBC radio |
Jun 23 |
Treacherous British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean flee to USSR |
Jun 23 |
Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas) |
Jun 24 |
Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations |
Jun 25 |
1st color TV broadcast-CBS' Arthur Godfrey from NYC to 4 cities |
Jun 28 |
"Amos 'n' Andy" premieres on CBS TV |
Jun 30 |
"Victor Borge Show" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 30 |
NAACP begins attack on school segregation & discrimination |
Jul 1 |
Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open |
Jul 1 |
Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1 |
Jul 2 |
Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt |
Jul 2 |
"Bob & Ray show" premieres on NBC radio |
Jul 2 |
Hugo Yarnold stumps 6 at Dundee, Worcester v Scotland |
Jul 2 |
Island advisor of Curacao installed |
Jul 2 |
Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system |
Jul 3 |
33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa |
Jul 5 |
Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant) |
Jul 5 |
Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hill NJ) |
Jul 6 |
65th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (6-4 6-4 6-4) |
Jul 7 |
58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (6-1 6-0) |
Jul 8 |
Yankee Joe DiMaggio & mgr Casey Stengel feud |
Jul 9 |
US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany |
Jul 10 |
18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit |
Jul 10 |
Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong |
Jul 12 |
Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill |
Jul 12 |
NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleve Indians, 8-0 |
Jul 14 |
"Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances |
Jul 14 |
"Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs |
Jul 14 |
1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race) |
Jul 14 |
Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races |
Jul 14 |
George Washington Carver monument unveiled |
Jul 16 |
1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est) |
Jul 16 |
King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates |
Jul 16 |
Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval |
Jul 16 |
Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published |
Jul 17 |
King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I |
Jul 17 |
Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered. |
Jul 18 |
Uruguay accepts its constitution |
Jul 18 |
Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion |
Jul 19 |
"2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs |
Jul 20 |
King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. |
Jul 21 |
Dalai Lama returns to Tibet |
Jul 22 |
General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal |
Jul 26 |
Netherlands ends state of war with Germany |
Jul 28 |
"Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 perfs |
Jul 28 |
Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released |
Jul 30 |
Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players |
Jul 31 |
Japan Airlines is established. |
Aug 1 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
Aug 3 |
William H Jackson ends term as deputy director of CIA |
Aug 5 |
Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg |
Aug 6 |
Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria |
Aug 7 |
Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket reaches 1,992 kph |
Aug 7 |
US viking rocket reaches 210 km height (record) |
Aug 9 |
Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation |
Aug 11 |
100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Illinois |
Aug 11 |
1st color baseball game (Braves vs Dodgers) telecast (WCBS-NYC) |
Aug 11 |
NY Giants (NFL) beat Ottawa Roughriders (CFL) 38-6 in Ottawa |
Aug 11 |
NY Giants lose to go 13½ games behind Bkln Dodgers, later win pennant |
Aug 12 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship |
Aug 13 |
Great Britain & Iraq sign new oil contract |
Aug 17 |
18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0 (92,180) |
Aug 17 |
Hurricane winds drive 6 ships ashore, Kingston, Jamaica |
Aug 18 |
Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth |
Aug 19 |
Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" little person, to pinch-hit |
Aug 22 |
Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052 |
Aug 24 |
Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night", Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on |
Aug 25 |
Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game |
Aug 26 |
Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart |
Aug 28 |
Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000 |
Aug 28 |
Pirates snap NY Giants 16 game win streak |
Aug 30 |
US & Philippines sign mutual defense pact |
Aug 31 |
1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf |
Sep 1 |
PM Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad |
Sep 1 |
US, Australia & New Zealand sign ANZUS treaty |
Sep 2 |
Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact |
Sep 3 |
TV soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" debuts on CBS |
Sep 4 |
1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by US President Harry Truman |
Sep 4 |
71st US Men's Tennis: F A Sedgman beats Elias V Seixas Jr (6-4 6-1 6-1) |
Sep 4 |
NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast network |
Sep 4 |
US President Harry Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference |
Sep 5 |
65th US Women's Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry (6-3 1-6 6-4) |
Sep 5 |
71st US Men's Tennis: Frank A Sedgman beats Elias Seixas Jr (6-4 6-1 6-1) |
Sep 8 |
Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF) |
Sep 8 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex |
Sep 9 |
1st broadcast of "Love of Life" on CBS-TV |
Sep 9 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
Sep 10 |
British begin economic boycott of Iran |
Sep 11 |
Stravinsky's opera "Rake's Progress," premieres in Venice |
Sep 11 |
Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes |
Sep 13 |
St Louis Cards beat NY Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9/12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0 |
Sep 14 |
Giant's Bob Niemans homers on his 1st 2 at bats |
Sep 15 |
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs |
Sep 15 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8) |
Sep 15 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum |
Sep 16 |
6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
Sep 16 |
NL umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players |
Sep 17 |
"Borscht Capades" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances |
Sep 17 |
Romanian bishop A Pacha of Timisoara sentenced to 18 years |
Sep 19 |
1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV |
Sep 19 |
Italian civil servants strike for pay increase |
Sep 20 |
1st North Pole jet crossing |
Sep 20 |
NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball |
Sep 20 |
Swiss males votes against female suffrage |
Sep 21 |
Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec |
Sep 24 |
Industrial estate opens at Harlow New Town, England |
Sep 24 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Sep 26 |
Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris |
Sep 27 |
Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan |
Sep 28 |
Allie Reynolds' 2nd no-hitter of 1951; Yanks clinch pennant #18 |
Sep 28 |
Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton |
Sep 28 |
Norm Van Brocklin of Rams passes for NFL-record 554 yards |
Sep 29 |
1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS) |
Sep 29 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m & 10 mile |
Sep 29 |
S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter |
Oct 1 |
1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1 |
Oct 1 |
1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson (US ambassador to Denmark) |
Oct 1 |
24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black US military unit, deactivated |
Oct 2 |
1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel) |
Oct 2 |
Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs |
Oct 3 |
Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers |
Oct 4 |
In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn |
Oct 6 |
Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb |
Oct 7 |
David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government |
Oct 8 |
"Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances |
Oct 8 |
Ford C Frick replaces Happy Chandler as 3rd commissioner of baseball Warren C Giles becomes president of baseball's National League |
Oct 9 |
5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto |
Oct 9 |
Gil McDougald's World Series grand slam helps Yanks beat Giants 13-1 |
Oct 10 |
Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game |
Oct 14 |
Det Lion Jack Christiansen returns 2 punts for touchdowns vs LA Rams |
Oct 14 |
Organization of Central American States forms |
Oct 15 |
"I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV |
Oct 15 |
Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty |
Oct 15 |
Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesized the first oral contraceptive |
Oct 15 |
"I Love Lucy", starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, debuts on CBS |
Oct 16 |
The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. |
Oct 17 |
Egyptian army fires on British troops |
Oct 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 19 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open |
Oct 19 |
US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany |
Oct 20 |
The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurred in Stillwater, Oklahoma |
Oct 22 |
Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed |
Oct 22 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 24 |
Jan de Hartog's "Four Poster" premieres in NYC |
Oct 24 |
United Nations publishes its first postage stamps |
Oct 25 |
Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom |
Oct 26 |
Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m & 15 miles |
Oct 26 |
Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden |
Oct 26 |
Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister |
Oct 28 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 30 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 31 |
French Second Chamber accepts the Schuman Plan |
Nov 1 |
Johnny Mercer's "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances |
Nov 1 |
First atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico |
Nov 1 |
Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP |
Nov 1 |
Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP |
Nov 1 |
Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson |
Nov 1 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 4 |
9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US) |
Nov 4 |
NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns |
Nov 4 |
Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings |
Nov 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 7 |
Constitution of Jordan passes |
Nov 8 |
NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards |
Nov 10 |
1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance |
Nov 12 |
"Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances |
Nov 13 |
Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio & Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan) |
Nov 15 |
Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI v MCC, Lahore |
Nov 15 |
NY Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 18 |
"See it Now" premieres on TV |
Nov 18 |
British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt |
Nov 18 |
Former Cubs 1st baseman & future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft |
Nov 19 |
Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday |
Nov 19 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 20 |
Snowdonia becomes a British National Park |
Nov 24 |
"17" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances |
Nov 24 |
"Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 56 perfs |
Nov 24 |
39th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 21-14 |
Nov 24 |
British auto manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge |
Nov 25 |
17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama |
Nov 25 |
Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears |
Nov 25 |
Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden |
Nov 27 |
1st rocket to intercept an airplane, White Sands, NM |
Nov 27 |
Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea |
Nov 28 |
John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC |
Nov 28 |
Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria |
Nov 29 |
1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat, Nevada |
Dec 1 |
17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB) |
Dec 1 |
Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London |
Dec 1 |
Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds |
Dec 2 |
"Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances |
Dec 2 |
Phila sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing |
Dec 2 |
Don Hutson's #14 jersey is retired by the Green Bay Packers, the first number retired in the history of the franchise |
Dec 4 |
Aaron Copland's/Robbins' "Pied Piper" premieres in NYC |
Dec 4 |
Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), kills 500 |
Dec 4 |
Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government. |
Dec 5 |
"Dragnet" premieres |
Dec 8 |
"Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 perfs |
Dec 8 |
AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games |
Dec 9 |
Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg, W Germany |
Dec 11 |
Joe DiMaggio announces his baseball retirement |
Dec 12 |
Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement |
Dec 17 |
Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants |
Dec 19 |
Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands |
Dec 20 |
Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
Dec 21 |
Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement |
Dec 22 |
Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide |
Dec 23 |
Last Belgian communities get electricity |
Dec 23 |
1st coast-to-coast televised football game (Dumont paid $75,000) LA Rams beat Cleveland Browns 24-17 in NFL championship game |
Dec 24 |
1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor) |
Dec 24 |
United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN |
Dec 25 |
1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Aust v WI at Adelaide |
Dec 25 |
West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket |
Dec 27 |
40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2) |
Dec 29 |
Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal |
Dec 31 |
1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced |
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