May 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
• 03 May 1951 Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
• 05 May 1951 Out of This World closes at New Century Theater NYC after 157 performances
• 06 May 1951 Pittsburgh Pirates' player Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Braves, 3-0.
• 07 May 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter
• 08 May 1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak.
• 09 May 1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River.
• 10 May 1951 Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
• 11 May 1951 Jay Forrester patents computer core memory.
• 12 May 1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
• 13 May 1951 The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
• 14 May 1951 Flahooley opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
• 15 May 1951 The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czes?aw Mi?osz, asks the French government for political asylum.
• 16 May 1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
• 18 May 1951 UN moves HQ to New York City
• 19 May 1951 77th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold wins in 1:56.4.
• 21 May 1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition : a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
• 23 May 1951 Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
• 24 May 1951 Willie Mays begins playing for New York Giants
• 25 May 1951 New York Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game
• 27 May 1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
• 28 May 1951 Jerry Colonna Show, debuts on ABC-TV
• 30 May 1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 rounds for heavyweight boxing title.
• 31 May 1951 Netherlands and South Africa sign cultural accord.

Famous Birthday

• François Bayrou

  French politician who ran unsuccessfully for President of France in 2002 and 2007.

• Gérard Jugnot

  French actor, film and stage director, and producer.

• Christian Lacroix

  French couturier and fashion designer who was noted for using the old styles to create a "regeneration" effect on fashion.

• Jean-Pierre Bacri
• Frank Wilczek

  American mathematician and physicist Nobel Prize laureate.

• Anatoly Karpov

  Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

• Catherine Laborde

  French weather forecaster on the private channel TF1.

• Sally Ride

  American astronaut, one of a five-member crew and America's first woman in space on the Challenger 06/18/1983.

• Mick Mars

  American guitarist (Motley Crue).

• Corinne Lepage
• Jean Mamère

  French journalist who worked for the group France Télévisions.

• Kenneth Bianchi

  American homicide, the Hillside Strangler, along with his accomplice, cousin Angela Buono.

• Pierre Lellouche
• Philip Bailey

  American singer-songwriter drummer and actor (Earth Wind & Fire).

• Eric Wauters

  Belgian equestrian who rode in the Atlanta Olympics 1996, placing 69th in individual jumping and 13th in team jumping.

• Emmanuel Todd

  French historian and anthropologist, son of writer and journalist Olivier Todd, he released an essay "Qui est Charlie?" after the terrorist...

• Joey Ramone

  Rock Singer.

• Céleste Lett
• Walter Kälin
• Robert Hegyes
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Famous Deaths

• Karl Heinrich David

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips

  Author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65.

• Thomas Blamey

  Soldier.

• Josef Bohuslav Foerster

  Composer, dies at 91.

• Robert Kahn

  Composer, dies at 85.

• Paula von Preradovic

  Croatian-born writer (Born 1887).

• Oscar DePriest

  American politician (Representative-Democrat-Illinois), dies at age 80.

• Elie Cartan

  French mathematician (Born 1869).

• Dimitrios Levidis

  Greek-French soldier composer and educator (d. 1951).

• Hermann Broch

  Austrian-American author and poet (d. 1951).

• Marie Ault

  Dies at 80.

• Eddie Dunn

  comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at age 54.

• Warner Baxter

  American actor from 1918 who had a long and successful career.

• Fanny Brice

  American comedienne, a genius of caricature and satire.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Frankie Laine - Jezebel
2. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Old Soldiers Never Die
3. Percy Faith & His Orchestra (Vocal Burl Ives) - On Top of Old Smoky
4. Frankie Laine - Rose, Rose, I Love You
5. Buddy Morrow & His Orchestra - Rose, Rose, I Love You