Page 11: Historical Events In 1951

Sep 10   British begins economic boycott of Iran   

Sep 10   Giuseppe Mule, composer, dies at 66.   

Sep 11   Florence Chadwick is recorded as becoming inaugural woman to swim the 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   Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56   

Sep 16   6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls   

Sep 16   In this year, Betsy Rawls claims the US Women's Open Golf title   

Sep 18   John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies   

Sep 19   1st broadcast of "Search for Tomorrow" on CBS-TV   

Sep 20   1st North Pole jet crossing.   

Sep 20   inaugural North Pole jet crossing   

Sep 21   Emil Zatopek runs 15000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec   

Sep 24   Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75.   

Sep 24   Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens.   

Sep 26   Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris.   

Sep 27   Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan.   

Sep 29   Bradley Barker, dies   

Sep 29   inaugural color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)   

Sep 29   S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter.   

Oct 01   24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated.   

Oct 01   The inaugural treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson.   

Oct 02   1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel).   

Oct 03   Battle of Maryang-San, Korea starts   

Oct 03   Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers   

Oct 03   Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 1 (HS-1), inaugural of its kind in the Navy, was established at NAS Key West, Fla   

Oct 04   In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn   

Oct 06   Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, assassinated   

Oct 06   Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb   

Oct 07   Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77   

Oct 07   David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli govt.   

Oct 08   "Music in the Air" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances   

Oct 10   Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio's final game   

Oct 12   Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62.   

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Jan 02   Nadia cassini: [gianna lou muller], woodstock ny, model (oui)   

Jan 02   Alexander pogrebinsky: Russian painter   

Jan 03   Frank chikane: Sec-gen of s afr council of churches   

Jan 03   Gary nairn: Australian politician   

Jan 04   Barbara ann cochran: Claremont nh, slalom skier (olympic-gold-1972)   

Jan 05   Steve arnold: English footballer   

Jan 07   Talgat amangeldyyevich musabayev: Russian mjr/cosmonaut (tm-19, tm-27)   

Jan 07   Mike ward: Democratic congressman for kentucky & radio talk show host   

Jan 02   Sir william campion: Governor of western australia (b. 1870)   

Jan 03   Fred barlow: Composer,    

Jan 05   Andrei p platonov: Russian author (prok, kotlovan),   

Jan 07   Johanna c h "nelly" bodenheim: Painter (luilekkerland),    

Jan 10   Athos palma: Composer,    

Jan 18   Robert mark: Us chairman (caste world congress),   

Jan 19   Constantin nottara: Composer,    

Jan 22   Eastwood lane: Composer,