December 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
• 02 Dec 1951 Borscht Capades closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
• 03 Dec 1951 The Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon.
• 04 Dec 1951 Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Philippines), killing 500.
• 05 Dec 1951 Dragnet premieres
• 06 Dec 1951 A state of emergency is declared in Egypt due to increasing riots.
• 08 Dec 1951 Tree Grows in Brooklyn closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 performances
• 13 Dec 1951 Future British Prime Minister Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher.
• 16 Dec 1951 Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
• 17 Dec 1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants.
• 20 Dec 1951 The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
• 22 Dec 1951 The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
• 23 Dec 1951 Last Belgian communities get electricity.
• 24 Dec 1951 1st televised opera
• 27 Dec 1951 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Sydney (3-2).
• 29 Dec 1951 Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
• 31 Dec 1951 The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.

Famous Birthday

• Gilbert Montagné
• Roger Zabel

  French TV host and journalist specialized in sports.

• Jaco Pastorius

  American bass player songwriter and producer (Weather Report Trio of Doom and Blood Sweat & Tears) (d. 1987).

• Gerald Grosvenor 6th Duke of Westminster
• Bruno Racine

  French civil servant and writer.

• Mike Krüger
• Bettina Rheims
• Régis Loisel
• John Gray (US author)
• Pape Diouf
• Xishun Bao
• Pascal Commère
• Ernesto Zedillo

  Mexican politician, a bland and enigmatic man elected the new Mexican president 8/21/1994, taking office on 11/31/1994.

• Dominique Dropsy
• Gary Rossington

  American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd Rossington Collins Band and The Rossington Band).

• Andrew Thomas (astronaut)
• Tom Hamilton

  Bassist.

• John Scofield

  American jazz musician, a guitarist and composer, he has played with greats like Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Charlie Mingus.

• John Rice

  American actor and realtor who worked with his twin-brother to sell 57 houses their first year in real estate, starting in August, 1977.

• Morgan Brittany

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Felix Petyrek

  Composer, dies at 59.

• J Edward Bromberg

  Dies at 47.

• Barton Yarbrough

  Actor (Dragnet), dies at 51.

• Powell Weaver

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Alfreds Kalnins

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Benito Lynch

  Irish / Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66.

• Shoeless Joe Jackson

  American baseball player (Born 1889).

• Abanindranath Tagore

  Indian writer (Born 1871).

• Selim Palmgren

  Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies at age 73.

• Eric Drummond

  first Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at age 75.

• Harry T Moore

  Florida NAACP official, is killed by a bomb.

• Jozef E Stokvis

  Dutch Member of Parliament (SDAP), dies at age 76.

• Maxim M Litvinov [Meyer H Wallach]

  Russian diplomat, dies at age 75.

• Philipp A Kohnstamm

  Dutch philosopher/physicist, dies at age 76.

• Mildred Bailey

  American military woman, a Brigadier General who was head of the Women's Army Corps from 1971-75 during the Vietnam War.

• Algernon Blackwood

  British-American writer of short stories and the occult.

• Harold Ross

  American journalist and publisher co-founded The New Yorker (d. 1951).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ralph Flanagan & His Orchestra - Slow Poke
2. Four Aces - Tell Me Why
3. Eddie Fisher - Any Time
4. Helen O'Connell - Slow Poke
5. Les Paul - Jingle Bells