April 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1951 Female suffrage begins in Greece.
• 05 Apr 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage in the USA.
• 07 Apr 1951 15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280.
• 11 Apr 1951 American President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur.
• 12 Apr 1951 Israeli Knesset officially designates April 13 as Holocaust Day.
• 15 Apr 1951 Michael Gorsira is first person in charge of Cura?ao.
• 16 Apr 1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
• 18 Apr 1951 Make a Wish opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 102 performances
• 19 Apr 1951 Tree Grows in Brooklyn opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 performances
• 20 Apr 1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
• 21 Apr 1951 5th NBA Championship: Rochester Royals beat the New York Knicks, 4 games to 3
• 22 Apr 1951 Ticker-tape parade for General Douglas MacArthur in New York City, New York, USA.
• 24 Apr 1951 In Yokohama, Japan a fire on a train kills more than 100.
• 26 Apr 1951 Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum
• 27 Apr 1951 Mohammed Mossadeq chosen premier of Persia.
• 28 Apr 1951 Robert Menzies' Liberal Party government in Australia is re-elected for a second term.
• 29 Apr 1951 Tibetan delegates to the Central People's Government arrive in Beijing and draft a Seventeen Point Agreement for Chinese sovereignty and Tibetan autonomy.

Famous Birthday

• Jean-Louis Borloo

  French lawyer and politician, leader of the Union of Democrats and Independents, former Minister of Ecology, Energy, and sustainable.

• Olivia Hussey

  Argentinean-British actress who made her debut at 16, with her elegant, doe-eyed beauty first seen in "Romeo and Juliet.

• Tony Danza

  TV Actor.

• Luther Vandross

  R&B Singer.

• Christian Bobin

  French author and poet.

• Janis Ian

  American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist and science fiction author.

• Dale Earnhardt

  American race-car champion and favorite of the fans known as "the Intimidator" due to being a relentless, hard-charging driver who never let...

• Gary Frischer

  American musician, on the road with the Chambers Brothers at age 22.

• Ace Frehley

  Guitarist.

• Enda Kenny

  Taoiseach of Ireland.

• Christian Tarin

  Belgian race car driver, the co-pilot of Jacky Ickx.

• Celeste Longacre

  American astrologer, active in astrological circles in New England, a member of the Boston Chapter of NCGR.

• Trixie Schuba

  Austrian figure-skating champion who won a Gold Medal at the 1972 Olympics.

• Marisa Laurito

  Italian singer, brilliant actress and Entertainment hostess.

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• Jean-Marc Boivin

  French mountaineer, extreme skier, speleologist, film maker and author.

• Mel Schacher

  American bass player (Question Mark & the Mysterians and Grand Funk Railroad).

• Börje Salming

  Swedish ice hockey player and businessman.

• Marie-Jo Zimmermann

  French politician, a Member of Parliament for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party.

• Ian McCartney

  Scottish politician Minister of State for Trade.

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Famous Deaths

• Halfdan Cleve

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Sadiq Hidajat

  Persian writer (Hadji Aga).

• Harold Vincent Milligan

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Emile Erens

  Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars), dies at 85.

• Jerzy Fitelberg

  Composer, dies at 47.

• John Alden Carpenter

  American composer (Sea Drift), dies at age 75.

• Jules Verstraete [Julien G de Graef]

  Actor (Boefje), dies at 67.

• Stanley Ridges

  Actor (possessed, Sgt York, Mr Ace), dies at 59.

• Charles G Dawes

  Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1865).

• Simon Barere

  pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall.

• Johannes C Kielstra

  Dutch economist/Governor (Suriname 1933-44), dies at age 72.

• Vilhelm F K Bjerknes

  Norwegian/US physicist/meteorology, dies at age 89.

• Ludwig J J Wittgenstein

  Austria/English philosopher, dies at age 62.

• Antonio Oscar Carmona

  97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (Born 1869).

• Ivanoe Bonomi

  Italian teacher, lawyer, government official and editor.

• Arnold Sommerfeld

  German physicist whose atomic model permitted the explanation of fine-structure spectral lines.

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Austrian writer, a philosopher and linguist who influenced several schools of logical positivism, linguistic analysis and semantics.

• Vilhelm Bjerknes

  Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951).

• Horace Donisthorpe

  English entomologist and myrmecologist (d. 1951).

• Edward Rigby

  Dies at 72.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Weavers - On Top of Old Smoky
2. Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High The Moon
3. Mario Lanza - The Loveliest Night Of The Year
4. Nat King Cole (Les Baxter & His Orchestra) - Too Young
5. Gary Crosby & Friend (Bing Crosby) - When You and I Were Young Maggie, Blues