September 1951 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1951 Prime Minister Ben-Gurion orders establishment of Israeli secret service Mossad
• 02 Sep 1951 Australia, New Zealand and US sign ANZUS-pact
• 03 Sep 1951 TV soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts on CBS
• 04 Sep 1951 1st transcontinental TV broadcast, by President Truman
• 05 Sep 1951 65th US Womens Tennis: Mo Connolly beats Shirley J Fry
• 08 Sep 1951 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sempiternus Rex
• 09 Sep 1951 1st broadcast of Love of Life on CBS-TV
• 10 Sep 1951 British begins economic boycott of Iran
• 11 Sep 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours and 19 minutes
• 13 Sep 1951 St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Giants 6-4 (rescheduled from 9 / 12) then at night lose to Boston Braves 2-0
• 15 Sep 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k
• 16 Sep 1951 NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
• 17 Sep 1951 Borscht Capades opens at Royale Theater NYC for 90 performances
• 18 Sep 1951 Tennessee Williams's adaptation of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' premieres, becoming a critical and box-office smash.
• 19 Sep 1951 1st broadcast of Search for Tomorrow on CBS-TV
• 20 Sep 1951 NL President Ford Frick elected 3rd commissioner of baseball
• 21 Sep 1951 Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in record 44 min, 54.6 sec
• 24 Sep 1951 Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
• 26 Sep 1951 Prof Youngblood demonstrates artificial heart in Paris
• 27 Sep 1951 Persian troops occupies oil refinery at Abadan
• 28 Sep 1951 Franchot Tone wed Barbara Payton
• 29 Sep 1951 Emile Zatopek runs world record 20,000 m and 10 mile

Famous Birthday

• Mark Hamill

  American actor who made a fortune and became immortal playing Luke Skywalker in the George Lucas trilogy: "Star Wars," "The Empire Strikes...

• Mark Harmon

  American actor and noted family, the son of actress Elyse Knox and Heisman trophy winner Tom Harmon, the brother of commercial actress Kelly...

• Michael Keaton

  Movie Actor.

• Cassandra Peterson

  American actress.

• Ronald DeFeo Jr
• Chrissie Hynde

  American singer and bandleader of the rock band, "The Pretenders.

• Marie-Anne Chazel

  French actress and comedienne, married to actor Christian Clavier.

• David Coverdale

  English singer-songwriter (Whitesnake Deep Purple and Coverdale•Page).

• Michelle Bachelet

  Chilean politician and medical doctor, first woman president of that country, a former political exile.

• Dee Dee Ramone
• Joe Pantoliano

  Jersey City, New Jersey -- Actor (Finelli Boys, Fugitive).

• Ben Carson

  Doctor.

• Bob McAdoo

  American athlete, a forward center basketball player, 6'9", 225 lbs.

• Michel Rivard

  Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Beau Dommage).

• Bruno Brel

  Belgian singer and novelist, nephew of singer Jacques Brel.

• Jean Smart

  American actress and singer.

• Patty Wagstaff

  American stunt pilot in air shows, a participant in shows and competitions throughout North America and around the world, including South...

• Jon Feltheimer

  American business executive, President of New World Pictures in the '90s.

• Jim Diamond

  Scottish vocalist who originally started with the group, PhD.

• Heinz Hoenig
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Famous Deaths

• Bradley Barker
• Wolfgang Schulze [Wols]

  German drawer / painter, dies at 38.

• Robert Franz Richard Hernried

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Jurgen Stroop

  Nazi commander of Warsaw Ghetto, executed.

• Cecil Gray

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Gibson Gowland

  Actor (Greed), dies at 74.

• Jacinto Guerrero

  Composer, dies at 56.

• John Douglas Cockcroft

  Physicist.

• Georges Rency

  Belgian Poet / literature, dies at 75.

• Phillippus Paracelsus

  Physician / alchemist, dies at 48.

• James W Gerard

  American jurist and diplomat (Born 1867).

• Fritz Busch

  German musician, a violinist, pianist and conductor who reorganized the Dresden State Opera.

• Maria Montez

  Dominican actress who was an exotic Hollywood leading lady seen mainly in hokum adventures.

• Jimmy Yancey

  American pianist and composer (d. 1951).

• Hans Cloos

  German geologist and academic (d. 1951).

• Giuseppe Mule

  Composer, dies at 66.

• Thomas Cahill

  American soccer player and coach (d. 1951).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Louis Armstrong - (When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas
2. Del Wood - Down Yonder
3. Frank Sinatra (Harry James Orchestra) - Castle Rock
4. Four Aces - Sin
5. Patti Page - And So to Sleep Again