1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. 1951 - Events. 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 ...

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1951 - 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, northwe ...

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1951 in aviation - February. February 21 - an English Electric Canberra becomes the first jet to make an unrefuelled crossing of the Atlantic, taking 4 hours 37 minutes 1951 in aviation - March. March 6 - the Martin aircraft company gains production rights to the English Electric Canberra as the B-57 March 15 - a QANTAS flying boat makes a survey flight from Sydney to Valparaíso via Easter Island, the airline's fi ...

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The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. At various times a soldier, journalist, author, and politician, Churchill is generally regarded as one of the most important leaders in British and world history. He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. In a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002 to identify the "100 Greatest Britons", partici ...

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Vernon Wallace Thomson (November 5, 1905 – April 2, 1988) was Governor of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1959. Vernon Thomson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He was a lawyer and a Republican. He was mayor of Richland Center from 1944 to 1951 and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1935 to 1951. He was attorney general of Wisconsin from 1951 to 1957. In 1956, he was elected governor of Wisconsin defeating William Proxmire; he was defeated for reelection as governor in 1958 by Gaylord Nelson. In 1961, he was elected to the U ...

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September 25, 1968 President (Interim): April 18, 1951 - August 9, 1951 President (Interim): António Óscar Carmona President (Interim): Craveiro Lopes Professor António de Oliveira Salazar (pron. IPA /ɐ̃.'tɔ.niw dɨ o.li.'vɐj.ɾɐ sɐ.lɐ.'zaɾ/; April 28, 1889—July 27, 1970) was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Salazar was born in Santa Comba Dão, near Viseu, in central Portugal. Initially, he ...

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Baldev Raj Chopra born April 14, 1914) is a director and Producer of Bollywood movies and Indian television sitcoms. He is the recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award 1998 . Baldev Raj Chopra - Filmography Partial. Naya Daur Afsana (1951) ...

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This article is about Brian Keenan, the former hostage, not Brian Keenan (activist), the Irish Republican Army leader and bomber. Brian Keenan (b. 1951 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish Protestant writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling, an account of the five years he spent as a hostage in the Lebanon. In April, 1986, while teaching at the American University of Beirut, Keenan was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. After spending several months in isolation, he was moved to a ce ...

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Rik Albert Blyleven, better known as Bert Blyleven (born April 6, 1951 in Zeist, Netherlands), is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played in the 1970s and 1980s, best known for his astounding curveball. The Netherlands-born but southern California-raised Blyleven became interested in baseball as a young boy watching Sandy Koufax pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Blyleven was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the third round in 1969 and after a brief stint in the minor leagues, he was called up by the Twins on ...

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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 – April 26, 1951) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. Arnold Sommerfeld was born in Königsberg where he studied mathematics and physical sciences at its university. After receiving his doctorate in 1891 he changed to the University of Göttingen, where he received a professorship in 1896. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1897 and of technical engineering at the University of Aachen in 190 ...

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Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was the 30th Vice President of the United States. He married Caro Blymer of Cincinnati on January 24, 1889, with his wife giving birth to a son and daughter and the couple also adopting a boy and girl. Dawes' lineage made him the great-grandson of the Revolutionary War figure William Dawes and the son of brigadier general Rufus Dawes, who during the U.S. Civil War, had briefly commanded the Iro ...

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Christian Bernard (born November 30, 1951), F.R.C., is the current (as of 2005) Imperator of AMORC, a mystical Rosicrucian order. He became Imperator on April 12, 1990. Christian Bernard was the Grand Master of the French speaking jurisdiction from 1977 to 1993. Before that, he was Grand Secretary. He began working with the Grand Lodge in 1970. Christian Bernard - Interesting Facts about Christian Bernard. Astrological sign: Sagittarius Rosicrucian since the age of 15.Including:

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Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 - April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, about naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). Born in Cairo, Forester had a complicated life, including imaginary parents, a secret marriage and a debilitating illness. He was educated at Alleyn's School ...

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Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist of the University of Colorado at Boulder who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced a Bose-Einstein condensate. In a Time magazine article (April 10, 2000), Wieman was quoted, "We get to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero." Wieman was born in Corvallis, Oregon. Wieman earned his B.S. in 1973 from MIT and his PhD. from Stanford University in 1977; he was also given a Doctorate of Science (Honorary) from the University of Chicago awarded in ...

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Vedre Ramachandra Reddy got his title " Bhoodhan " as he was the foremost person to help start the great land donation movement in early 1950's in Andhra Pradesh at a vilage called Pochampally in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh .He was a great social worker and noble man . Acharya Vinobha Bhave started the land donation movement in pochampally vilage in April 1951 with initiation of donation of 250 acres (1 km²) of land from Ramachandra Reddy Vedre , which led to a total of 1 million acres (4,000 km²) of land dona ...

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William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. William Randolph was the only child of George Hearst, a successful miner who became a multi-millionaire, and later U.S. Senator from California, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, a former school teacher from Missouri. While his father was busy losing and re-gaining fortunes, young William toured Europe with his mother. He was enrolled in St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire at the age of 15. Including:

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