1951

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 - 1951 - 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956

Deaths

Events

• February 11 - Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold Coast (Ghana).
• April 1 - Australia, New Zealand, United States security treaty signed in San Francisco.
• April 18 - [Treaty of Paris]? adopted, establishing European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC); see EU.
• September 10 - Great Britain begins an economic boycott of Iran
• the release of "Rocket 88", a song by Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats. Some music historians consider this record to be the first rock and roll recording.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Sir John Douglas Cockcroft]?, - [Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton]?
• Chemistry - [Edwin Mattison McMillan]?, [Glenn Theodore Seaborg]?
• Medicine - [Max Theiler]?
• Literature - [Pär Fabian Lagerkvist]?
• Peace - [Léon Jouhaux]?