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1951 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1951 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1951
- February 6, 1951 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- April 22, 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People’s Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
- May 21, 1951 – The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
- July 4, 1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
- July 22, 1951 – Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
- September 3, 1951 – The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network.
- September 4, 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
- October 15, 1951 – Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives.
- December 17, 1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers “We Charge Genocide” to the United Nations.
- December 31, 1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
Who Were Born On 1951?
- January 24, 1951 – Yakov Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American comedian and actor
- March 18, 1951 – Ben Cohen, American businessman co-founded Ben and Jerry’s
- March 25, 1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (d. 2000)
- April 26, 1951 – John Battle, English politician
- May 15, 1951 – Chris Ham, English political scientist and academic
- July 15, 1951 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
- August 23, 1951 – Jimi Jamison, American singer-songwriter (Survivor) (d. 2014)
- September 21, 1951 – DeWayne Jessie, American actor
- December 3, 1951 – Rick Mears, American race car driver
- December 20, 1951 – Lynne Featherstone, English blogger and politician