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Topps
Company started it's first baseball card series. The series consisted of two individual sets of 52 cards each. |
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20 year
old outfielder Willie Mays joins N.Y. Giants Baseball team, while Joe DiMaggio retires from baseball. |
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11,000
new books will debut this year. James Jones novel, From Here to Eternity is published. Also popular this year: Look Younger,
Live Longer by Gayelord Hauser. |
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J.D.
Salinger published Catcher in the Rye. More Info
Herman Wouk's Caine Mutiny, for which he will win the Pulitzer Prize, is published. |
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Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his duties by President Truman, bade farewell to Congress. |
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UNIVAC 1 First commercial computer. You've Got mail! |
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Florence
Chadwick swims the English Channel from England to France in 16 hours. |
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Direct-dial,
coast-to-coast telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called his counterpart mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda,
California. |
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A.E.C.
produces electricity from atomic energy. |
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Swanson
introduces beef, chicken, turkey pot pies. Hard to imagine there was life before this feast of gourmet treats. |
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The U.S. produced 100 million tons of steel and 400,000
lbs. of penicillin |
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Maureen
Connolly becomes the youngest woman to win the U.S. Open in tennis. |
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J. Andre-Thomas
invents the first heart-lung machine, allowing advanced life-support during open-heart surgery. |
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Oscar stuff Marlon Brando puts on an undershirt and stars in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in a big
year for movies.
A cult classic debuts. The Day the Earth Stood Still. The robot was Gort and Michael Rennie communicated
with him by saying Klaatu Barata Nikto. |
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American
automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces power steering., which they called Hydraguide. |
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Yes!
Tupperware! |
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Gerber
Products starts using MSG (monsodium glutamate) in its baby foods to make them taste better. |
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The first
Jack-in-the-Box opens in San Diego. |
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There
are 15,500,000 TV sets in 15,750,000 homes. |
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In Sports... - Tom Fears, Otto Graham, Johnny Lujack, (football) and George Kell,Bob Lemon and Ralph Kiner (baseball)
get their own Wheaties boxes! |
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American
casualties in Korea by the end of 1951
- 15,000 dead and 75,000 wounded. |
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Walt
Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released. |
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S&H
Green Stamps get their start at the Denver store chain King
Sooper. |
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Taco
holder thingee enables fast tacos! |
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The U.S.
Congress ratifies the Twenty-second Amendment, limiting presidents to two terms in office. (Some say that's still one too
many.) |
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Still
camera gets built-in flash units. |
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The Temple
Beth Israel of Meridian, Mississippi
became the first Jewish congregation to allow women to perform the functions of a rabbi. |
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A Crosley
automobile with a steering wheel on the right side became the first such vehicle placed in service for mail delivery - in
Cincinnati, Ohio. |
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The comic
strip, Dennis the Menace, written by Hank Ketchum, debuts and is picked up by 750 newspapers.
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There
are 900 fewer inmates in prison than the previous year. Although that still leaves 164,896 of 'em in jail. |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of selling atomic secrets to the Soviets. |
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There
are now 8.2 million trucks in the U.S. |
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The first
section of the New Jersey Turnpike opens. |
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17 million
Americans now own TV sets. Just in time for I Love Lucy and the Cisco Kid to debut. |
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Citation
becomes the first race horse to earn more than one million dollars. |
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There
was a 30.7% business failure rate. Chart for 1946-1964 |
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There
were 36,996 motor vehicle related deaths.While in the air, there were 11 accidents resulting in 185 fatalities. |
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Unemployment:
3.3% |
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Fifties
Web contributor Tony Rogerson was born on 21/01/51 in a small industrial town called Widnes on the outskirts of Liverpool, England.
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US GNP (Gross National Product) is $329.6 billion | |
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