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

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Newman arrived in New York City in 1951 with his first wife Jackie Witte, taking up residence in the St. George section of Staten Island.

His first recording, " Rocket 88 " with the Kings of Rhythm credited as " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for " first rock and roll song ".

They also reached the 1951 FA Cup Final, where they were favourites to beat opponents Newcastle ; however Matthews ended up with a second runners-up medal thanks to a brace from Jackie Milburn.

# Jackie Robinson: 137 ( Brooklyn Dodgers 1951 )

" Rocket 88 " came out with the group credited as Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats and went on to sell half a million copies, reaching the top of the Billboard R ' n ' B charts in June 1951.

Chrysler and its designer Virgil Exner became a close partner for 15 years, resulting in eighteen Chrysler Ghia Specials ( 1951 – 53 ), the K-310, the Chrysler Norseman, the Crown Imperial limousines ( Jackie Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, and other luminaries owned one ), and others.

Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him, the actor Jackie Basehart, before they divorced in 1960.

One contender is " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( in fact, Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in Memphis in 1951.

*" Rocket 88 " was recorded on March 5, 1951 by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats-actually Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm-and covered later in the year by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen.

*" Rocket 88 " – either Jackie Brenston's original, recorded on March 5, 1951 with Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, or Bill Haley's cover, later in 1951

A leading contender as the first fully formed rock and roll recording is " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( which was, in fact, Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm recording under a different name ), recorded by Sam Phillips for his Memphis Recording Service in 1951 ( the master tape being sold to and later released by Chess Records ).

Little Richard himself later claimed that he took the music from Ike Turner's piano intro to Jackie Brenston's influential 1951 rock and roll song " Rocket 88 ", and used it for " Good Golly Miss Molly ".

Reputedly the first rock-and-roll single, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ' " Rocket 88 " was recorded there in 1951 with song composer Ike Turner on keyboards, leading the studio to claim status as the birthplace of rock & roll.

Jackie Kelk, who played Homer Brown on the radio show, and Mary Malone as Mary Aldrich in the television program, 1951.

* Sigmund Esco " Jackie " Jackson ( born May 4, 1951 )

The term the ' Busby Babes ' was coined in November 1951, after 18-year-old Jackie Blanchflower and 21-year-old Roger Byrne made their debuts against Liverpool at Anfield ; Tom Jackson of the Manchester Evening News described them in a match report as ' United's Babes '.

In 1951, she was seen in a Clorets commercial by Jackie Gleason and was asked to appear in a skit on Cavalcade of Stars, Gleason's variety show on the DuMont Television Network.