1951

1950 - 1951 - 1952 - decade 1950s - 20th century

Births

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

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]?