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  • Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1951
    Martin Luther King

    B.Div. degree

    Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1951

    He then enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a B.Div. degree in 1951.




  • U.S.
    1951
    Harry S. Truman

    The United States ratified the 22nd Amendment

    U.S.
    1951

    In 1951, the United States ratified the 22nd Amendment, making a president ineligible for election to a third term or for election to a second full term after serving more than two remaining years of a term of a previously elected president. The latter clause would have applied to Truman's situation in 1952 were it not for a grandfather clause excluding the amendment's application to the incumbent president.




  • U.S.
    1951
    Jimmy Carter

    USS Barracuda

    U.S.
    1951

    In 1951 Carter became attached to the diesel/electric USS K-1, (a.k.a. USS Barracuda), qualified for command, and served in several duties including Executive Officer.




  • Massachusetts, U.S.
    1951
    John Forbes Nash Jr.: A Beautiful Mind

    First relationship

    Massachusetts, U.S.
    1951

    In 1951, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hired Nash as a C. L. E. Moore instructor in the mathematics faculty. About a year later, Nash began a relationship in Massachusetts with Eleanor Stier, a nurse he met while admitted as a patient. They had a son, John David Stier, but Nash left Stier when she told him of her pregnancy. The film based on Nash's life, A Beautiful Mind, was criticized during the run-up to the 2002 Oscars for omitting this aspect of his life. He was said to have abandoned her based on her social status, which he thought to have been beneath his.




  • U.S.
    Friday Jan 5, 1951
    Neil Armstrong

    His first flight in a Jet

    U.S.
    Friday Jan 5, 1951

    Neil made his first flight in a jet, a Grumman F9F Panther, on January 5, 1951.




  • U.S.
    1951
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with the Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican

    U.S.
    1951

    President Truman sensed a broad-based desire for an Eisenhower candidacy for president, and he again pressed him to run for the office as a Democrat in 1951. But Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with the Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican.




  • New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 1, 1951
    Korean War

    The United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 498

    New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 1, 1951

    Following the failure of ceasefire negotiations in January, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 498 on 1 February, condemning the PRC as an aggressor, and called upon its forces to withdraw from Korea.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 11, 1951
    Marilyn Monroe

    Fox's New Contract

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 11, 1951

    In December 1950, Hyde was able to negotiate a seven-year contract for Monroe with 20th Century-Fox. Marilyn Monroe Signed 20th Century Fox Contract in April 11, 1951.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    May, 1951
    Korean War

    MacArthur was the subject of congressional hearings

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    May, 1951

    MacArthur was the subject of congressional hearings in May and June 1951, which determined that he had defied the orders of the President and thus had violated the US Constitution.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1951
    Neil Armstrong

    Neil was promoted to ensign

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1951

    Neil was promoted to ensign on June 5, 1951, and made his first jet carrier landing on USS Essex two days later.


  • Kapolei, Hawaii, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 28, 1951
    Neil Armstrong

    VF-51 Flew ahead to Naval Air Station Barbers Point in Hawaii

    Kapolei, Hawaii, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 28, 1951

    On June 28, 1951, Essex had set sail for Korea, with VF-51 aboard to act as ground-attack aircraft. VF-51 flew ahead to Naval Air Station Barbers Point in Hawaii, where it conducted fighter-bomber training before rejoining the ship at the end of July.


  • Texas, U.S.
    1951
    Juneteenth

    Seventy thousand people attended a "Juneteenth Jamboree"

    Texas, U.S.
    1951

    Seventy thousand people attended a "Juneteenth Jamboree" in 1951.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Laser

    Joseph Weber submitted a paper on using stimulated emissions to make a microwave amplifier

    U.S.
    1951

    In 1951, Joseph Weber submitted a paper on using stimulated emissions to make a microwave amplifier to the June 1952 Institute of Radio Engineers Vacuum Tube Research Conference at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. After this presentation, RCA asked Weber to give a seminar on this idea, and Charles Hard Townes asked him for a copy of the paper.


  • Chicago, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 21, 1951
    Robin Williams

    Birth

    Chicago, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 21, 1951

    Robin McLaurin Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a senior executive in Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. His mother, Laurie McLaurin, was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi. Through her, he was a great-great-grandson of Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams had two elder half-brothers; paternal half-brother Robert (also known as Todd) and maternal half-brother McLaurin. He had English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, and German ancestry.


  • Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.
    1951
    Warren Buffett

    Columbia Business School

    Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.
    1951

    Buffett went on to graduate from Columbia Business School, where he molded his investment philosophy around the concept of value investing in 1951.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Friday Aug 3, 1951
    International Monetary Fund

    Ivar Rooth

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Friday Aug 3, 1951

    Ivar Rooth was a Swedish lawyer and economist. He served as Governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1929 to 1948 and as the second head (Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1951 to 1956.


  • U.S.
    Monday Aug 27, 1951
    Anna May Wong

    The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong

    U.S.
    Monday Aug 27, 1951

    From August 27 to November 21, 1951, Wong starred in a detective series that was written specifically for her, the DuMont Television Network series The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, in which she played the title role that used her birth name.


  • U.S.
    Oct, 1951
    Frank Sinatra

    1st Divorce

    U.S.
    Oct, 1951

    In October 1951, Sinatra divorced his first wife Barbato.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Black Friday

    The earliest known use of "Black Friday"

    U.S.
    1951

    The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurred in the journal, Factory Management and Maintenance, for November 1951, and again in 1952.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1951
    Frank Sinatra

    2nd Marriage

    U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1951

    Sinatra was married to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner in 1951.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Saturday Nov 24, 1951
    Audrey Hepburn

    Gigi

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Saturday Nov 24, 1951

    Hepburn went into rehearsals having never spoken on stage, and required private coaching. When Gigi opened at the Fulton Theatre on 24 November 1951, she received praise for her performance, despite criticism that the stage version was inferior to the French film adaptation. The play ran for 219 performances, closing on 31 May 1952.


  • Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
    1951
    Ted Bundy

    Louise met Johnny Culpepper Bundy

    Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
    1951

    In 1951 Louise met Johnny Culpepper Bundy (1921–2007), a hospital cook, at an adult singles night at Tacoma's First Methodist Church. They married later that year and Johnny Bundy formally adopted Ted.


  • Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1951
    Martin Luther King

    B.Div. degree

    Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1951

    He then enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a B.Div. degree in 1951.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Harry S. Truman

    The United States ratified the 22nd Amendment

    U.S.
    1951

    In 1951, the United States ratified the 22nd Amendment, making a president ineligible for election to a third term or for election to a second full term after serving more than two remaining years of a term of a previously elected president. The latter clause would have applied to Truman's situation in 1952 were it not for a grandfather clause excluding the amendment's application to the incumbent president.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Jimmy Carter

    USS Barracuda

    U.S.
    1951

    In 1951 Carter became attached to the diesel/electric USS K-1, (a.k.a. USS Barracuda), qualified for command, and served in several duties including Executive Officer.


  • Massachusetts, U.S.
    1951
    John Forbes Nash Jr.: A Beautiful Mind

    First relationship

    Massachusetts, U.S.
    1951

    In 1951, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hired Nash as a C. L. E. Moore instructor in the mathematics faculty. About a year later, Nash began a relationship in Massachusetts with Eleanor Stier, a nurse he met while admitted as a patient. They had a son, John David Stier, but Nash left Stier when she told him of her pregnancy. The film based on Nash's life, A Beautiful Mind, was criticized during the run-up to the 2002 Oscars for omitting this aspect of his life. He was said to have abandoned her based on her social status, which he thought to have been beneath his.


  • U.S.
    Friday Jan 5, 1951
    Neil Armstrong

    His first flight in a Jet

    U.S.
    Friday Jan 5, 1951

    Neil made his first flight in a jet, a Grumman F9F Panther, on January 5, 1951.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with the Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican

    U.S.
    1951

    President Truman sensed a broad-based desire for an Eisenhower candidacy for president, and he again pressed him to run for the office as a Democrat in 1951. But Eisenhower voiced his disagreements with the Democrats and declared himself to be a Republican.


  • New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 1, 1951
    Korean War

    The United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 498

    New York, U.S.
    Thursday Feb 1, 1951

    Following the failure of ceasefire negotiations in January, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 498 on 1 February, condemning the PRC as an aggressor, and called upon its forces to withdraw from Korea.


  • Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 11, 1951
    Marilyn Monroe

    Fox's New Contract

    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    Wednesday Apr 11, 1951

    In December 1950, Hyde was able to negotiate a seven-year contract for Monroe with 20th Century-Fox. Marilyn Monroe Signed 20th Century Fox Contract in April 11, 1951.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    May, 1951
    Korean War

    MacArthur was the subject of congressional hearings

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    May, 1951

    MacArthur was the subject of congressional hearings in May and June 1951, which determined that he had defied the orders of the President and thus had violated the US Constitution.


  • U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1951
    Neil Armstrong

    Neil was promoted to ensign

    U.S.
    Tuesday Jun 5, 1951

    Neil was promoted to ensign on June 5, 1951, and made his first jet carrier landing on USS Essex two days later.


  • Kapolei, Hawaii, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 28, 1951
    Neil Armstrong

    VF-51 Flew ahead to Naval Air Station Barbers Point in Hawaii

    Kapolei, Hawaii, U.S.
    Thursday Jun 28, 1951

    On June 28, 1951, Essex had set sail for Korea, with VF-51 aboard to act as ground-attack aircraft. VF-51 flew ahead to Naval Air Station Barbers Point in Hawaii, where it conducted fighter-bomber training before rejoining the ship at the end of July.


  • Texas, U.S.
    1951
    Juneteenth

    Seventy thousand people attended a "Juneteenth Jamboree"

    Texas, U.S.
    1951

    Seventy thousand people attended a "Juneteenth Jamboree" in 1951.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Laser

    Joseph Weber submitted a paper on using stimulated emissions to make a microwave amplifier

    U.S.
    1951

    In 1951, Joseph Weber submitted a paper on using stimulated emissions to make a microwave amplifier to the June 1952 Institute of Radio Engineers Vacuum Tube Research Conference at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. After this presentation, RCA asked Weber to give a seminar on this idea, and Charles Hard Townes asked him for a copy of the paper.


  • Chicago, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 21, 1951
    Robin Williams

    Birth

    Chicago, U.S.
    Saturday Jul 21, 1951

    Robin McLaurin Williams was born at St. Luke's Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois on July 21, 1951. His father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a senior executive in Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury Division. His mother, Laurie McLaurin, was a former model from Jackson, Mississippi. Through her, he was a great-great-grandson of Mississippi senator and governor Anselm J. McLaurin. Williams had two elder half-brothers; paternal half-brother Robert (also known as Todd) and maternal half-brother McLaurin. He had English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French, and German ancestry.


  • Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.
    1951
    Warren Buffett

    Columbia Business School

    Columbia Business School, New York, U.S.
    1951

    Buffett went on to graduate from Columbia Business School, where he molded his investment philosophy around the concept of value investing in 1951.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Friday Aug 3, 1951
    International Monetary Fund

    Ivar Rooth

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Friday Aug 3, 1951

    Ivar Rooth was a Swedish lawyer and economist. He served as Governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1929 to 1948 and as the second head (Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1951 to 1956.


  • U.S.
    Monday Aug 27, 1951
    Anna May Wong

    The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong

    U.S.
    Monday Aug 27, 1951

    From August 27 to November 21, 1951, Wong starred in a detective series that was written specifically for her, the DuMont Television Network series The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, in which she played the title role that used her birth name.


  • U.S.
    Oct, 1951
    Frank Sinatra

    1st Divorce

    U.S.
    Oct, 1951

    In October 1951, Sinatra divorced his first wife Barbato.


  • U.S.
    1951
    Black Friday

    The earliest known use of "Black Friday"

    U.S.
    1951

    The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurred in the journal, Factory Management and Maintenance, for November 1951, and again in 1952.


  • U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1951
    Frank Sinatra

    2nd Marriage

    U.S.
    Wednesday Nov 7, 1951

    Sinatra was married to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner in 1951.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    Saturday Nov 24, 1951
    Audrey Hepburn

    Gigi

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Saturday Nov 24, 1951

    Hepburn went into rehearsals having never spoken on stage, and required private coaching. When Gigi opened at the Fulton Theatre on 24 November 1951, she received praise for her performance, despite criticism that the stage version was inferior to the French film adaptation. The play ran for 219 performances, closing on 31 May 1952.


  • Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
    1951
    Ted Bundy

    Louise met Johnny Culpepper Bundy

    Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
    1951

    In 1951 Louise met Johnny Culpepper Bundy (1921–2007), a hospital cook, at an adult singles night at Tacoma's First Methodist Church. They married later that year and Johnny Bundy formally adopted Ted.


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