Page 2: Historical Events In 1951

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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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,