August 1951 calendar

Events

• 03 Aug 1951 William H Jackson, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
• 05 Aug 1951 Armed uprising in Ambonezen Camp Middelburg
• 06 Aug 1951 Typhoon floods kill 4,800 in Manchuria.
• 07 Aug 1951 US viking rocket reaches 210 km height
• 09 Aug 1951 Dutch Korea volunteers win US Collective Unit Citation
• 11 Aug 1951 100,000 acres flooded from Mississippi River in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Illinois
• 12 Aug 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship
• 13 Aug 1951 Great-Britain and Iraq sign new oil contract
• 17 Aug 1951 18th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 33, All-Stars 0
• 22 Aug 1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany, before audience of 75,052.
• 25 Aug 1951 Cleveland Indians win 16th straight home game
• 26 Aug 1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
• 28 Aug 1951 Braves sell pitcher Johnny Sain to the Yankees for $50,000
• 30 Aug 1951 US and Philippines sign mutual defense pact

Famous Birthday

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon

  French politician who served in the government of France as Minister of Vocational Education from 2000 to 2002.

• John Deacon

  British pop guitarist (Queen-Somebody to Love).

• Christophe de Margerie
• Jean-Christophe Cambadélis

  French politician who has been First Secretary of the French Socialist Party since April 2014.

• Dan Fogelberg

  American singer, songwriter with a sweet face and sweet voice.

• Louis van Gaal
• Juan Manuel Santos
• Carole Laure
• Randi Oakes

  American model and actress.

• Catherine Hicks

  TV Actress.

• Marcel Dadi

  French-Tunisian jewish musician, a folk guitarist.

• Xavier Couture

  French television director and producer.

• Rob Halford

  Metal Singer.

• Amy Shapiro

  American astrologer whose interest in astrology and metaphysics began in 1965 with teacher Isabel Hickey, author of "Astrology: A Cosmic...

• Didier Haudepin

  French actor, film producer, director and screenwriter.

• Victorin Lurel
• Jay North

  American child actor who did TV commercials from age six.

• Roger Karoutchi

  French Ambassador to the OECD.

• Mohamed Morsi

  Egyptian politician who served as the fifth President of Egypt, having assumed office on 30 June 2012.

• Timothy Bottoms

  American actor, the eldest of four acting brothers.

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Famous Deaths

• Constant Lambert

  British composer and conductor (Born 1905).

• (Leonard) Constant Lambert

  English Composer (Rio Grande), dies at 45.

• William Randolph Hearst

  newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

• J P Bickell

  Canadian businessman and sports team owner (Born 1884).

• Robert Walker

  American noted family, the son of Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker.

• Sydney Chapman

  English mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970).

• Artur Schnabel

  Austria / US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69.

• Ebbe Hamerik

  Composer, dies at 52.

• Louis Jouvet

  French theater director, producer, designer, theater worker, teacher and stage administrator in 1910 before his film and acting career.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Kay Starr - Come On'A My House
2. Patti Page - Detour
3. April Stevens (Henri Rene Orchestra) - Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?
4. Georgia Gibbs - While You Danced, Danced, Danced (I Walked In With A Smile)
5. Les Paul & Mary Ford - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise