January 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1951 Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on United Nations-lines.
• 03 Jan 1951 9 Jewish Kremlin physicians exposed as British / US agents
• 04 Jan 1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces capture Seoul.
• 06 Jan 1951 Pardon Our French closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 100 performances
• 08 Jan 1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow is rediscovered in Bermuda.
• 09 Jan 1951 Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an X rating, premieres
• 10 Jan 1951 United Nations headquarters opens in Manhattan, New York, USA.
• 12 Jan 1951 Ezzard Charles TKOs Lee Oma in ten rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 13 Jan 1951 German General F Christian freed early from Dutch prison.
• 14 Jan 1951 NFL Pro Bowl: first since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27.
• 15 Jan 1951 Ilse Koch, ''The Witch of Buchenwald'', wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
• 16 Jan 1951 Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi, Vietnam.
• 17 Jan 1951 China refuses cease-fire in Korea.
• 18 Jan 1951 1st use of lie detector in the Netherlands
• 20 Jan 1951 Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
• 22 Jan 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom.
• 23 Jan 1951 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg
• 24 Jan 1951 Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns.
• 25 Jan 1951 Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of her novel ''Journey Through the Night'' (''Reis door de nacht'') set during World War II.
• 26 Jan 1951 Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 27 Jan 1951 Peter Pan closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
• 28 Jan 1951 La Vie Commence Demain, which depicted artificial insemination and is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
• 30 Jan 1951 Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio.

Famous Birthday

• Phil Collins

  British musician, a drummer, singer, producer and actor.

• Kirstie Alley

  TV Actress.

• Guy Corneau
• Luc Ferry

  French philosopher and a notable proponent of secular humanism.

• Rush Limbaugh

  American author and talk show host, considered by the political left as "the most dangerous man in America" with his ridicule of liberals.

• Nicole Avezard
• Steve Prefontaine

  American extraordinary athlete and track icon of the '70s, the fastest American in history.

• Crystal Gayle

  American country-western singer and noted family, the sister of Loretta Lynn.

• Bernard Loiseau

  French chef, who committed suicide by firearm on 24 February 2003 after newspaper reports hinted that his restaurant might lose its 3-star...

• Jagathy Sreekumar

  Indian actor and screenwriter.

• Michel Barnier

  French politician, who was Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries from 2007-2009.

• Nana Patekar

  Indian film and stage actor.

• Haïti
• Chesley Sullenberger

  American commercial airline pilot who became celebrated when he landed his USAirways jet bearing 155 passengers and crew in the Hudson River...

• Eric Holder

  American lawyer judge and politician 82nd United States Attorney General.

• Karolina Eiríksdóttir
• Alexander (magician)
• Jean-Sébastien Vialatte
• Christian De Sica

  Italian actor, director and scriptwriter, the second son of Italian director Vittorio De Sica and Spanish actress María Mercader.

• Catherine Trautmann

  French politician for the Socialist Party (France).

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Famous Deaths

• Sinclair Lewis

  American writer, novelist and Nobel Prize winner in 1930, the first American novelist to win a Nobel prize for literature.

• Fred Barlow

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Johanna C H "Nelly" Bodenheim

  Painter (Luilekkerland), dies at 76.

• Athos Palma

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Eastwood Lane

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Constantin Nottara

  Composer, dies at 60.

• Harry Sinclair Lewis

  US writer (Nobel Prize 1930), dies at age 65.

• Robert Mark

  US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at age 41.

• Sir William Campion

  Governor of Western Australia (Born 1870).

• Karl Nessler

  inventor of the perm (Born 1872).

• Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  president of Finland (Born 1867).

• Rene Guenon

  French-Egyptian author (Born 1886).

• Ferdinand Porsche

  German car inventor (Porsche), dies at age 75.

• Andrei Platonov

  Russian author and poet (d. 1951).

• Yoshio Nishina

  Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951).

• Gregorios Xenopoulos

  Greek novelist, journalist and playwright (Born 1867).

• Frank Tarrant

  Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951).

• Andrei P Platonov

  Russian Author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51.

• Amy Carmichael

  Irish-Indian missionary and humanitarian (d. 1951).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Nat King Cole Pete Rugolo & His Orchestra) - Frosty the Snowman
2. Weavers (Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra) - So Long (It's Been Good to Know Ya)
3. Jo Stafford - If
4. Perry Como - If
5. Mel Blanc - I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat