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* 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
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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.
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 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 )
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1951 and Korean
The party split in 1951 over the austerity budget brought in by Hugh Gaitskell to pay for the cost of Britain's participation in the Korean War.
* 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the " high-water mark " of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences.
Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.
* " Mines Are Dirty Tricks ", February 1951 updates to above article on naval mines due to Korean War and types and measures against
In 1951, Eastwood entered the United States Army during the Korean War and was assigned to Fort Ord in California, where he worked as a lifeguard.
He led the United Nations Command in the Korean War until he was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman on 11 April 1951.
Wilson was becoming known as a left-winger and joined Aneurin Bevan and John Freeman in resigning from the government in April 1951 in protest at the introduction of National Health Service ( NHS ) medical charges to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.
eggs of silly putty in three days, Hodgson was almost put out of business in 1951 by the Korean War.
Caine was called up for national service in the British Army in 1951 when he was aged 18 and was deployed to South Korea to help in the aftermath of the North Korean invasion.
Bevan was appointed Minister of Labour ( during which he helped to secure a deal for railwaymen which provided them with a big pay increase ) in 1951 but soon resigned in protest at Hugh Gaitskell's introduction of prescription charges for dental care and spectacles — created in order to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.
As Secretary of State, Dulles still carried out the “ containment ” policy of neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War, which had been established by President Truman in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951.
The company was still attempting to get the CF-100 into production at the time and, consequently, the Canadian government cancelled any further work on the C102 due to Korean War priorities: C. D. Howe demanded the project be stopped to increase production of the CF-100, so the second C102 prototype was scrapped in the plant in 1951, with the first relegated to photographic duties in the Flight Test Department.
This was a time when much military surplus clothing and camping equipment was coming on the market in the aftermath of the Korean War of 1951 / 2.
Also during the Korean War, the Air Force Reserve 330th Bombardment Group, was ordered to active duty on 1 May 1951 at March.
The base closed after the war and remained inactive until 1951 when it was reopened as a contract flying school to train pilots during the Korean War.
The first USAF unit to use Clovis AFB was the Air National Guard's 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing, which arrived in October 1951 after being activated due to the Korean War.
Early in 1951, ATIC analysts obtained engine parts and the tail section of a crashed MiG-15 from the Korean theater.
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