1951 Events & Facts
MAJOR EVENTS:
- North Korean offensive pushes beyond the 38th parallel; truce negotiations fail
- Congress passes 22nd Amendment, limiting a President to two terms
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of passing U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union; both are sentenced to death
- General Douglas MacArthur relieved of command in Korea
- Sen. Estes Kefauver begins investigation of gambling and organized crime
BUSINESS & ECONOMY:
- Businessman J.S. Coxey leads unemployment protest in Washington
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
- Mass production of penicillin and streptomycin reaches records
- Electricity generated from nuclear power for the first time
SPORTS:
- World Series: New York Yankees over New York Giants, 4-2
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:
- Movies: The African Queen, An American in Paris, Strangers on a Train, A Streetcar Named Desire
- Songs: Hello Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, Cry, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening
- TV Shows: I Love Lucy, Adventures of Ellery Queen, Captain Video, What’s My Line
- Books: A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall; Lie Down in Darkness, William Styron; Desirée, Annemarie Selinko; From Here to Eternity, James Jones; The Caine Mutiny, Herman Woulk; The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
- Color television introduced; first color broadcast transmitted from CBS in New York
- The King and I opens on Broadway
- Robert Frost and Carl Sandberg both publish collections of poetry titled Complete Poems
EVERYDAY LIFE:
- In response to the growing popularity of television, movie theatres experiment with a variety of attractions, including wide-screen projection and 3-D effects
