October 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1951 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1
• 02 Oct 1951 1st Netherlands TV broadcast
• 03 Oct 1951 Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
• 04 Oct 1951 In opening World Series game, Giant Monte Irvin steals home in 1st inn
• 06 Oct 1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
• 07 Oct 1951 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
• 08 Oct 1951 Music in the Air opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 56 performances
• 09 Oct 1951 5th NHL All-Star Game: 1st Team ties 2nd Team 2-2 at Toronto
• 14 Oct 1951 Organization of Central American States forms
• 15 Oct 1951 I Love Lucy debuts on CBS TV
• 16 Oct 1951 The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• 17 Oct 1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops
• 19 Oct 1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany.
• 20 Oct 1951 The ''Johnny Bright Incident'' occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma
• 21 Oct 1951 A storm in southern Italy kills over 100.
• 22 Oct 1951 Earthquake hits Formosa, 100 killed
• 24 Oct 1951 United Nations publishes its first postage stamps.
• 25 Oct 1951 Peace talks aimed at ending Korean War resumed in Panmunjom.
• 26 Oct 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 30,000m, 25,000m and 15 miles
• 27 Oct 1951 Farouk of Egypt declares himself king of Sudan, with no support.
• 31 Oct 1951 Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman

Famous Birthday

• Sting (musician)
• Jean-Jacques Goldman

  French musician, a singer and former member of Tai Phong as well as songwriter and composer for other pop stars including the mega-celebrity...

• Romina Power

  American actress, singer and noted family, the daughter of Tyrone Power and Linda Christian.

• Bob Geldof

  Irish punk rock musician, lead vocalist and songwriter of "Boomtown Rats" and activist.

• Darryl Anka

  American mystic, a channeler who has been the voice of Bashar, an extraterrestrial consciousness since 1983.

• Enki Bilal

  French comic book creator and film director, born to a Slovakian mother and a Bosniak father.

• Pam Dawber

  TV Actress.

• Harry Hamlin

  American actor popular in the '80s ensemble TV cast about Los Angeles lawyers, "L.

• John Mellencamp

  American singer.

• Karen Allen

  American actress, a skinny, wide-eyed, raspy-voiced brunette leading lady of the stage, TV and films.

• Patrice Carmouze

  French journalist, television host and radio personality.

• Julian Schnabel

  American painter director and screenwriter.

• Danièle Pourtaud
• Geneviève Brisac
• Jeanette (singer)
• Roscoe Tanner

  American tennis player, ranked overall third in the U.S.

• Jean-Luc Thierry

  French anti-nuclear and environmental activist, a conscientious objector who led the campaign "Superphénix and the bomb" in 1984.

• Bootsy Collins

  Funk musician, a bass virtuoso who has played with James Brown, George Clinton and Dee-Lite, as well with his own Rubber Band.

• Kantaro (astrologer)
• Gavin Sutherland
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Famous Deaths

• Anton F Philips

  CEO (Philips), dies at 77.

• Simon Kimbangu / Kibangu

  Congo prophet, dies in captivity at 62.

• Liaquat Ali Khan

  Prime Minister of Pakistan (1947-51), assassinated by Said Akbar.

• De Raymond

  French High Director of Cambodia, murdered.

• Robert G Aitken

  US astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86.

• Willie Moretti

  American gangster (Born 1894).

• Otto Fritz Meyerhof

  German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1884).

• Henry Gurney

  British high commissioner to Malaya, is assassinated.

• Henrietta Lacks

  HeLa cells derived from her cervical cancer (Born 1920).

• Will Keith Kellogg

  American food manufacturer (Born 1860).

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Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Savannah Churchill - (It's No) Sin
2. Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine - Hey, Good Lookin'
3. Les Paul & Mary Ford - Just One More Chance
4. Richard Hayes - Out In The Cold Again