November 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1951 Top Banana opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 356 performances
• 04 Nov 1951 New York Giants and New York Yankees score back-to-back touchdowns on kickoff returns.
• 07 Nov 1951 Constitution of Jordan passes.
• 08 Nov 1951 New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
• 10 Nov 1951 Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• 12 Nov 1951 Paint Your Wagon opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
• 15 Nov 1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
• 18 Nov 1951 See it Now premieres on TV
• 19 Nov 1951 Roy Campanella named National League Most Valuable Player on his 30th birthday.
• 20 Nov 1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park
• 24 Nov 1951 17 closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 180 performances
• 25 Nov 1951 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
• 27 Nov 1951 Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
• 28 Nov 1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
• 29 Nov 1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Premier

Famous Birthday

• Ilona Staller

  Hungarian-Italian porno star elected to the Italian parliament in 1987 after campaigning topless.

• Fabrice Luchini

  French stage and film actor, born to an immigrant Italian who had a French wife, he was a "Kid of Montmartre".

• Lou Ferrigno

  American actor and bodybuilder.

• Patrick Sabatier

  French TV host, well known in France, whose star was tarnished after he got a four-year suspended sentence for tax evasion.

• Beverly d'Angelo
• Kathryn Bigelow

  American director producer and screenwriter.

• Vera Fischer
• Traian Basescu

  President of Romania.

• Lawrence O'Donnell

  American political journalist turned screenwriter and producer, Lawrence O’Donnell has written and produced many episodes of the hit series,...

• Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Kim Peek

  American megasavant (d. 2009).

• Basile de Koch
• Zeenat Aman

  Indian model and actress.

• Nigel Havers

  British actor who shot to prominence in England as the killer in the TV series "The Charmer.

• Summer Bartholomew

  American Beauty Queen voted "Miss U.S.

• Zhang Yimou

  Chinese actor director producer and cinematographer.

• François Bracci
• Alfredo Astiz

  Argentinian captain.

• Alain Etchegoyen
• Brent Carver

  Canadian actor, winner of the Canadian Film Award 1978 for Best Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Hugo Leichtentritt

  Composer, dies at 77.

• Nikolai Karlovich Metner

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Agrippina J Vaganova

  Russian ballet dancers / pegagoge, dies at 72.

• Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Resurreccion Maria de Azkue

  Composer, dies at 87.

• John H Van Maarseveen

  Dutch Minister of Justice, dies at 57.

• Vaclav Kalik

  Composer, dies at 60.

• William Henry Bennett Vodery

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Raden Mas Noto Suroto

  Indonesian Poet (Wayang Songs), dies at 63.

• Thomas Quinlan (impresario)

  British opera impresario (Born 1881).

• Reggie Walker

  South African runner and coach (d. 1951).

• Sigmund Romberg

  Hungarian / US Composer (Blossom Time), dies at 64.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - Slow Poke
2. Tony Martin - Domino
3. Jo Stafford - Shrimp Boats
4. Ray Anthony - Undecided
5. Frankie Laine - Jealousy (Jalousie)