February 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1951 1st telecast of atomic explosion
• 02 Feb 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 03 Feb 1951 Victor Borge Show, debuts on NBC TV
• 04 Feb 1951 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer.
• 06 Feb 1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security
• 10 Feb 1951 John & Marsha by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
• 11 Feb 1951 Kwame Nkrumah wins first parliamentary election in Gold Coast (Ghana).
• 12 Feb 1951 Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari.
• 13 Feb 1951 Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the ''high-water mark'' of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
• 14 Feb 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title.
• 15 Feb 1951 Start of the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute, which lasts for 151 days.
• 16 Feb 1951 San Francisco City Hall dome fire
• 18 Feb 1951 Netherlands Radio School forms
• 19 Feb 1951 Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her 2 pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.
• 24 Feb 1951 Bless You All closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
• 25 Feb 1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament.
• 26 Feb 1951 22nd amendment to Constitution is ratified
• 27 Feb 1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting President to 2 terms
• 28 Feb 1951 US Senate committee reports of at least two major US crime syndicates.

Famous Birthday

• Jane Seymour

  Actress (Young Mr Bobbin), dies at 56.

• Gordon Brown

  Scottish Member of Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer for ten years under Tony Blair before becoming British Prime Minister on June 27,...

• Gordon Brown

  Scottish Member of Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer for ten years under Tony Blair before becoming British Prime Minister on June 27,...

• Jacques Villeret

  French actor, best known internationally for his role as François Pignon in the comedy "Le Dîner de Cons.

• Helen Shaver

  Canadian-American live theater, film and TV actress whose work is highly praised.

• Blaise Compaoré
• Isabel Preysler

  Filipino-Spanish journalist.

• JoJo Starbuck

  American skater with Ken Shelley on the U.S.

• Patricia Richardson

  TV Actress.

• Princess Marie-Christine of Belgium
• John Ogonowski

  American pilot of American Airlines flight No.

• William Katt

  American actor with a noted family, the son of film veterans Bill Williams and Barbara Hale.

• William Katt

  American actor with a noted family, the son of film veterans Bill Williams and Barbara Hale.

• Stephen Nichols

  American actor whose work has spanned action and martial arts films, comedy, drama, occult horror and science-fiction.

• Russell Grant

  British actor in more than 30 musicals and comedies.

• Rita Poelvoorde

  Belgian ballet dancer, a star in ballets directed by Maurice Bejart.

• Kevin Keegan

  British soccer player / manager (Newcastle United).

• David Naughton

  American actor and singer.

• Katalin Molnár
• Carmen Martínez-Bordiú
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Famous Deaths

• Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide

  French writer (Nobel 1947), dies at 82.

• Joseph Bovet

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan

  Composer, dies at 94.

• Anton Roemer

  Dutch actor (Gay Death), dies at 63.

• Lloyd C Douglas

  American author (Born 1877).

• Henri Velge

  first chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at age 65.

• Piet A W Hopmans

  bishop of Breda (Crusade), dies at age 85.

• Gabby Street

  former MLB player (Born 1882).

• Andre Gide

  French writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1869).

• Eddy Duchin

  American pianist and bandleader (d. 1951).

• Howard Brockway

  American pianist composer and educator (d. 1951).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Debbie Reynolds & Carlton Carpenter - Aba Daba Honeymoon
2. Dinah Shore & Tony Martin - A Penny A Kiss
3. Patti Page - Would I Love You (Love You, Love You)
4. Billy Eckstine - If
5. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Mockin' Bird Hill