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

The modern history of independent Libya began in 1951.

Idris as-Senussi, the Emir of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica and the leader of the Senussi Muslim Sufi order, represented Libya in the UN negotiations, and on 24 December 1951, Libya declared its independence with representatives from Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan declaring a union with the country being called the United Kingdom of Libya, and Idris as-Senussi being offered the crown.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When Libya gained its independence in 1951, veterans of the original Sanusi Army formed the nucleus of the Royal Libyan Army.

In 1951, Libya became the first African country to gain independence in the decade, and in 1954 the Algerian War began.

* King Idris ( Libya )-from 1951

The Grand Senussi's grandson became King Idris of Libya in 1951.

Idris, GBE (), also known as Idris I of Libya ( born Sayyid Muhammad Idris bin Muhammad al-Mahdi as-Senussi 12 March 1889 – 25 May 1983 ), was the first and only king of Libya, reigning from 1951 to 1969, and the Chief of the Senussi Muslim order.

A National Congress elected Idris as King of Libya, and as Idris I he proclaimed the independence of the United Kingdom of Libya as a sovereign state on 24 December 1951.

On December 24, 1951, Libya declared its independence as the United Kingdom of Libya.

* Libya — Idris I ( 1890 – 1983 ) ( Sayyid Muhammad Idris as-Sanusi, heir of a Muslim sect's dynasty ) reigned as Malik al-Mamlaka al-Libiyya al-Muttahida (" King of the United Libyan Kingdom ") from 24 December 1951 through 25 April 1963 and Malik al-Mamlaka al-Libiyya (" King of the Libyan Kingdom ") until 1 September 1969

The Flag of Libya was originally introduced in 1951, following the creation of the Kingdom of Libya.

Omar Faiek Shennib, Chief of the Royal Diwans, Vice President of the National Assembly and Minister of Defense under King Idris Al Senussi is credited in the memoirs of Adrian Pelt, UN commissioner for Libya ( 1949 to 1951 ) for the design of the original Flag of Libya: this flag represented Libya from its independence in 1951 to 1969, and was adopted by the pro-democracy movement during the Libyan civil war.

* 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

* 1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity.

* 15 March 1951 – Konrad Adenauer becomes Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as Chancellor when the Allies allow this post to be revived.

* 1951: Hollywood production Three Guys Named Mike, tells the story of stewardess Marcy ( Jane Wyman ) who has to choose between three admirers and becomes an advertising icon.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

* 1951 Eniwa Village becomes Eniwa Town

* It becomes Niitsu City by the municipal organization enforcement on January 1, 1951.

* Shōhei Ōoka's novel A Wife in Musashino ( Musashino Fujin ) ( 1951 ) is a drama in which a moral and stoic woman, trapped in a loveless marriage with a selfish and morally decadent man, becomes implicated against her will in what looks like an affair with her younger cousin.

: 1951: Herbede becomes the right to name itself „ city “.

; December 1951: A modified K-225 equipped with a Boeing 502 ( YT50 ) engine becomes the world's first gas turbine powered helicopter.

Michael returns to New York in the spring of 1951 and becomes fully involved in the family's criminal enterprises, taking Sonny's role as Vito's heir apparent.

Nelson ( 1951: p. 51 – 52 ) cites Radhakrishnan's The Principal Upanishads ( 1953 ) where Radhakrishnan renders a passage of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad ( verse 1. 4. 16 ) which demonstrates a theme that one becomes transpersonally identified with, or nondual to, or develops qualities associated with that to which one is engaged, worships or holds holy and though it is translated with a male pronominal it may be understood as not being gender-specific:

* 4 October 1951 – Joseph Laniel becomes a Minister of State.

* 1951 – 1974 As part of a land swap with the Soviet Union, Ustrzyki Dolne becomes Polish again and is part of the province Rzeszów.

* 1951 Kashimadai becomes a town

* " 1921 " from the 1969 version becomes the medley " 1951 / What About The Boy ", covering the sequence that climaxes with the return of Tommy's father and his killing.

* 1951: Libya becomes independent.

* April, 1951 Memanbetsu becomes a Town.

At the age of 14 she becomes pregnant following a one-night stand with Stuart Mullins, a ticket collector for the Waltzer ride at a fairground in South London, and gives birth to their daughter Vivienne ( Natasya Rush ), the following year in 1951.

The 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train features a tunnel of love ride that becomes the scene of a murder.

* 1951: The IAA moves to Frankfurt, and becomes biennial