Highlights of 1951
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- MAJOR EVENTS:
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- 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:
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- Businessman J.S. Coxey leads unemployment protest in Washington
- SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:
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- Mass production of penicillin and streptomycin reaches records
- Electricity generated from nuclear power for the first time
- SPORTS:
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- World Series: New York Yankees over New York Giants, 4-2
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT:
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- 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:
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- In response to the growing popularity of television, movie theatres
experiment with a variety of attractions, including wide-screen projection and
3-D effects
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