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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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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February February 23 - Dassault Mystére I March March 12 - Fairey Delta FD.1 March 15 - Sud-Ouest SO.30R April April 26 - Lockheed X-7 May May 18 - Vickers Valiant prototype WB210 June June 20 - Bell X-5, first aircraft with swing wings June 21 - Handley Page HP.88 July July 20 - Hawker Hunter prototype WB188 August

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1951 in rail transport - January events. January - Fairbanks-Morse and Canadian Locomotive Company introduce the H-16-66 model Train Master diesel locomotive. January 11 - The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway discontinues passenger train service. January 20 - Canadian Pacific Railway's eastbound Dominion passenger train hits a truck at a level crossing in Ottawa; most of the train remains on the rails, but the engineer is fatally burned in the derailment.See also:

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Men's Golf Grand Slam of golf results: May - The Masters - Ben Hogan June - US Open - Ben Hogan July - British Open - Max Faulkner August - PGA Championship - Sam Snead PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Lloyd Mangrum - $26,089 Ryder Cup: United States team wins 9 1/2 to 2 1/2 over the British team in world golf. Women's Golf < ...

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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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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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Catherine Hicks (born August 6, 1951 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is an American actress. After attending University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she studied theology, Hicks began a career in acting. She first rose to prominence as Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope, a role she played from 1976 to 1978. In 1979, she was one of the leads in the television version of The Bad News Bears and in 1982 she took the lead role in the comedy/detective series Tucker's Witch opposite Tim Mathes ...

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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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Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (known to most as Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom in August 7, 1951. He came from a working-class background, and won a scholarship to study Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in the late 1960's. After graduating from Cambridge he taught in high school for one year before travelling to Thailand to become a monk and train with the legendary meditation ...

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Bill Bryson (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was educated at Drake University but dropped out in August 1973 while on vacation in England. Bryson then began working in a psychiatric hospital in Virginia Water, Surrey. Here he met and soon married his English wife, a hospital nurse. Together they returned to the USA for Bryson to complete his college degree. Once attained, they settled ...

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Dana Rosemary Scallon, formerly Dana (born August 30, 1951), is a successful former singer turned Irish politician. Scallon was born Rosemary Brown in Derry, Northern Ireland. In 1970 as a teenager she represented Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest, singing "All Kinds of Everything" (written by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), and brought home the country's first victory in the contest. She had some minor hits in the British and Irish music charts subsequently. Always religious, she became more famous for singing religious songs, such as "Totus Tuus", comm ...

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United Airlines Flight 615, a DC-6B #N37550, was operating as Flight 615, which was a transcontinental east-west service serving Boston-Hartford-Cleveland-Chicago-Oakland-San Francisco. The plane was transporting 50 persons (44 passengers and 6 crew members) on August 24, 1951. The flight departed Chicago at 10:59 p.m. CST en route to Oakland. At around 4:16 a.m., the plane was approaching Oakland. At this time, the captain requested a descent into Oakland which was granted. At 4:25 a.m. Flight 615 was cleared for the straight- ...

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Barbara Hambly (August 28, 1951 – ) is an American fantasy author. Barbara Hambly - Biography. She was born in San Diego, California and grew up in Montclair, California and has an older sister Mary and younger brother Ed. She went to the University of California at Riverside, earning a Masters degree in Medieval History in 1975. She spent a year in Bordeaux, France as part of her studies. Her first novel to be published was Time of the Dark by Del Rey in 1982. She has been, at various times ...

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Eamon de Valera[1] (born Edward George de Valera, sometimes Gaelicised Éamon de Bhailéara; October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975), was an Irish politician, best known as a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th Century, and the Republican ...

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Howlin' Wolf quickly became a local celebrity, and soon began working with a band that included both Willie Johnson and guitarist Pat Hare. His first recordings came in 1951, when he was simultaneously signed to The Bihari Brothers' Modern Records and to Leonard Chess' Chess Records. Chess issued Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years" in August 1951; Wolf also recorded sides for Modern, with Ike Turner, in late 1951 and early 1952. Chess eventually won the war over the singer, and Wolf settled in Chicago, Illinois. He began playing with guitar ...

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Communist Party of Czechoslovakia/KSC (prohibited 1938, dissolved 1939-1945) 1933-1938/1939 and 1989(December)-(February)1990: common member spring 1945: member of its Provisional Central Committee (established in the parts of Czechoslovakia liberated by the Red Army) 1949-1951 and 1968 (August 31)-1989: member of its Central Committee and (except for 1949-1951) a member of its Presidium 1969 (April) -?1987: one of its secretaries 1969 (April)-1987: party leader (first secretary, since 1971 general secretary) 1987 (December 17): resigned as par ...

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