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

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – The Mountaineers Collection Photographic albums and text documenting the Mountaineers official annual outings undertaken by club members from 1907 – 1951, primarily on the Olympic Peninsula, in Mount Rainier National Park and on Glacier Peak.

The peak was named Island Peak in 1951 by Eric Shipton's party since it appears as an island in a sea of ice when viewed from Dingboche.

* Shakespeare Country, The, Including the Peak and the Cotswolds ( 1951 )

Between 1951 and 1952, Route Twisk was built by the Royal Engineers, led by Brigadier H. P. Cavendish, to improve the transport from the military base of British Army in Castle Peak.

* Hoskins, W. G. East Midlands and the Peak ( London: Festival of Britain Office / Collins, 1951 ) ASIN B0000CHW4S

Prior to the separation of the colony of Victoria from New South Wales in 1951, the area was called the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.

Between 1948 and 1959 seven of his plays were performed on Broadway: Summer and Smoke ( 1948 ), The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ), Camino Real ( 1953 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ), Orpheus Descending ( 1957 ), Garden District ( 1958 ), and Sweet Bird of Youth ( 1959 ).

In 1951, a class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the City of Topeka, Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.

The conviction was later overturned by the Los Angeles court and District Attorney's office on January 31, 1951, with the following statement, after it was exposed as a set-up:

* Cecil Dolecheck ( born 1951 ), Iowa State Representative from the 96th District

* 1951 Rural Fire District No. 12 organized.

Hammett testified on July 9, 1951 in front of United States District Court Judge Sylvester Ryan, facing questioning by Irving Saypol, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, described by Time as " the nation's number one legal hunter of top Communists ".

In 1951, Wolfsburg was separated from the District of Gifhorn, and became an urban district.

In 1951 parts of the Limehurst Rural District were added to the County Borough of Oldham, and in 1954 further parts of the same district added to it on its abolition.

* 1951: The Fourth District, Xiangtan County

Upon his release from the service, he looked to follow in his father's political footsteps, serving as Assistant U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1948 to 1951.

* Ayrshire District Cup: 1899 – 1900, 1903 – 04, 1909 – 10, 1913 – 14, 1914 – 15, 1932 – 33, 1938 – 39, 1946 – 47, 1950 – 51, 1951 – 52, 1954 – 55, 1955 – 56, 1957 – 58, 1970 – 71, 1976 – 77, 1977 – 78, 1981 – 82, 1987 – 88.

He served as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1942 to 1946, then as Minnesota's 27th Governor from January 8, 1947 to September 27, 1951, and finally as a judge for the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 1951 until his death in 1978.

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to Youngdahl's appointment to the U. S. District Court for Washington, D. C. ( 1951 – 1967 ); correspondence and files relating to the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administration of the Probation System ( 1962 – 1967 ); photograph albums and scrapbook materials documenting his experiences as governor of Minnesota ( 1947 – 1951 ), his judicial service, and family activities ; and some personal papers ( 1950 – 1968 ) are available for research use.

* Calixto Zaldivar – former representative, Lone District of Antique ( 1934 – 1935 ), former Governor of Antique ( 1951 – 1955 ) and former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ( 1964 – 1974 ).

* Martin F. Loughlin, class of 1951, U. S. District Court of New Hampshire, judge ( 1979 – 1995 )

* April 1951: Merged with village of Wagō, Anpachi District

On March 1, 1951, Koromo gained city status, and absorbed the village of Takahashi from Nishikamo District on September 30, 1956.