The first substantial amounts of metallic americium weighing 40 – 200 micrograms were not prepared until 1951 by reduction of americium ( III ) fluoride with barium metal in high vacuum at 1100 ° C.

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch baseball player

* 1884 – Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Tom Noonan, American actor

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Buddy Bell, American baseball player and manager

* 1951 – Mack Brown, American football coach

* 1951 – Catherine Hicks, American actress

* 1951 – Daryl Somers, Australian television host

* 1951 – Steve Swisher, American baseball player

* 1951 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1871 – John French Sloan, American artist ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Wax ) ( d. 2011 )

* 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Rainbow, Fandango, Brazen Abbot, and Hughes Turner Project )

* 1951 – Freddie Wadling, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor ( Leather Nun and Blue for Two )

* 1951 – Per Westerberg, Swedish politician

* 1861 – Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Tommy Bolin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Deep Purple, Zephyr, and James Gang ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1951 – Pete Mackanin, American baseball player

* 1894 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player ( d. 1951 )

* 1951 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1951 – Jay North, American actor

* 1951 – Phil Carlson, Australian cricketer

* 1951 – Mamoru Oshii, Japanese director

In 1951, the company was sold to Lazard Freres and Company, which in turn sold some of the Texas land to Fred C. Koch.

Under the pressure of public opinion Koch was re-arrested in 1949 and tried before a West German court and on 15 January 1951 was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Koch was blacklisted by Hollywood in 1951.

Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).

#" The April Witch " ( 1951 )

#" The April Witch " ( 1951 )

Despite the fact that at the time witchcraft was still illegal in that state of Australia ( the British Witchcraft Act of 1735 had been repealed in England in 1951, but would only be repealed in this state in 1971 ), Norton openly declared herself to be a Witch.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

Tracks include the 1970s Joe Cocker hit " You Are So Beautiful ", the Beach Boys ' " Disney Girls " and jazz standards such as " My Buddy ", which Day originally sang in her 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams.

A revision of I. Halpern's notes on E. Fermi's lectures in 1945 ", United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( October 1951 ).

* Fermi, E. " Taylor instability of incompressible liquids ", Los Alamos National Laboratory ( through predecessor agency Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, ( September 1951 ).

", PEQ 83 ( 1951 ), 101-138.

Gene Kelly discovered her in Roland Petit Company " Ballet des Champs Elysées ", and cast her to appear opposite him in the musical An American in Paris ( 1951 ), a role in which a pregnant Cyd Charisse was originally cast.

* 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records " Rocket 88 ", often cited as " the first rock and roll record ", at Sam Phillips ' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

* 1951 – The " Shot Heard ' Round the World ", one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when the New York Giants ' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.

In 1951 Sherwood Washburn, a Hooton alumnus, introduced a " new physical anthropology ", withdrawing from the study of racial typology to concentrate upon the study of human evolution, moving away from classification towards evolutionary process.

Johnny Otis, who had signed with the Newark, New Jersey-based Savoy Records, produced many R & B hits in 1951, including: " Double Crossing Blues ", " Mistrustin ' Blues " and " Cupid's Boogie ", all of which hit number one that year.

Ruth Brown on the Atlantic label, placed hits in the top 5 every year from 1951 through 1954: " Teardrops from My Eyes ", " Five, Ten, Fifteen Hours ", "( Mama ) He Treats Your Daughter Mean " and " What a Dream ".

James Michener assessing the Sydney Harbour Bridge in his book " Return to Paradise ", ( 1951 ).

In the science fiction anthology Far Boundaries ( 1951 ), the editor August Derleth identifies the short story " Missing One's Coach: An Anachronism ", written for the Dublin Literary Magazine by an anonymous author in 1838, as a very early time travel story.

* Holmes, Jr., Urban T. " The Idea of a Twelfth-Century Renaissance ", Speculum ( Volume 26, Number 4, 1951 ): 643 – 651.

Heidegger's later works include Vom Wesen der Wahrheit (" On the Essence of Truth ", 1930 ), Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (" The Origin of the Work of Art ", 1935 ), Einführung in die Metaphysik (" Introduction to Metaphysics ", 1935 ), Bauen Wohnen Denken (" Building Dwelling Thinking ", 1951 ), and Die Frage nach der Technik (" The Question Concerning Technology ", 1954 ) and Was heisst Denken?