Page 2: Historical Events In 1951
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Jan 22 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom 


Jan 22 Eastwood Lane, composer, dies at 71. 


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


Jan 23 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg. 


Jan 24 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik steps down 


Jan 24 Dutch govt Drees-van Schaik steps down 


Jan 26 Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 


Jan 27 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 320 performances. 


Jan 27 "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. 


Jan 28 "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination and is the inaugural X-rated movie, opened in London. 


Jan 28 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, president of Finland (b.1867). 


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


Jan 29 James Bridie, [Osborne Henry Mavor], dramatist, dies 


Jan 29 Liz Taylor's inaugural divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr) 


Jan 30 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio. 


Jan 30 Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche), dies at 75 


Feb 01 -50ºF (-46ºC), Gavilan NM (state record). 


Feb 01 Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed. 


Feb 01 inaugural telecast of atomic explosion 


Feb 01 The inaugural X-ray moving picture process demonstrated. 


Feb 01 UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea 


Feb 01 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 


Feb 02 -35ºF (-37ºC), Greenburg, Indiana (state record until 1994). 


Feb 03 "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV 


Feb 03 Dick Button win US skating title for 6th time. 


Feb 04 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer. 


Feb 06 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84. 


Feb 06 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security. 


Feb 09 St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45. 


Feb 09 The Royal Commission on Transportation, the Turgeon Commission produces its report 


Feb 10 "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 


Feb 10 Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71 


Feb 10 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari. 


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