The play opened at the Alvin Theatre on January 13, 1951, with Claude Rains playing Rubashov, and ran for 163 performances.

* 1951: Claude Rains – Darkness at Noon

After being upset by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1951 semifinals, Detroit won its fifth Cup in 1952, sweeping both the Leafs and the Canadiens, with the Production Line of Howe, Abel and Lindsay joined by second-year goalie Terry Sawchuk.

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

Led by Geelong's greatest coach ( officially named at Geelong's Team of the Century 2000 ) Reg Hickey, Geelong won two consecutive premiership flags of 1951 and 1952.

Geelong won the 1951 Premiership under memorable circumstances.

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

The role of Charlie Allnutt won Bogart his only Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1951.

Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister in 1947, and re-elected when the Congress party won India's first general election in 1951.

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

The Menzies government won 69 of 121 seats and 50. 7 percent of the two-party vote at the 1951 election and gained control of the Senate.

The relocated Brewers were loaded with talent, and the 1953 T-Sox won the second Association pennant in their history and drew over 343, 000 fans, a 244 % increase compared to 1951.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

Following the work of Ernest Goodpasture, he used chicken eggs to culture the virus and won a Nobel Prize for this achievement in 1951.

The documentary film of the expedition, itself entitled Kon-Tiki, won an Academy Award in 1951.

His Complete Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.

He cast him again in the film version in 1951, which made Brando a star and won 4 Oscars, and was nominated for 12.

In 1951, after introducing and directing one of the Actors Studio's brightest young talents, Marlon Brando, in the stage version, he went on to cast him in film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which made Brando a star and won 4 Oscars, being nominated for 12.

After two years in the role, he played the same part in the 1951 film version, this time playing opposite Vivien Leigh, where he won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

In 1951, ATL won a contract from Bristol Aircraft to manufacture wing centre sections for Bristol Freighters.

Binge's best known composition is probably Elizabethan Serenade ( 1951 ), which was used by the British Broadcasting Corporation as the theme for the popular 1950s series, " Music Tapestry ," and as the play-out for the British Forces Network radio station, and for which he won an Ivor Novello Award.

He remained in the Whip's Office after the Conservatives won the 1951 general election, rising rapidly to Joint Deputy Chief Whip, Deputy Chief Whip and, in December 1955, Government Chief Whip under Anthony Eden.

During the 1950s, Newcastle won the FA Cup trophy on three occasions within a five year period, beating Blackpool in 1951, Arsenal in 1952, and Manchester City in 1955.

Malden was a first-generation Serbian-American who won the 1951 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire and was nominated in 1954 for his supporting role in On the Waterfront.

* 1951: When Worlds Collide-No nominees named ( When Worlds Collide was the sole nominee and won the award outright.

* 1951 – Tony Danza, American actor

* 1951 – Tony Holiday, German singer ( d. 1990 )

* 1951 – Tony Rice, American guitarist and songwriter ( David Grisman Quintet and Bluegrass Album Band )

* 1951 – Tony Scott, American baseball player

Williams received virtually all of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including several New York Drama Critics ' Circle awards, a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo ( 1951 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1948 ) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1955 ).

Tony Shryane MBE was the programme's producer from 1 January 1951 to 19 January 1979.

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Play

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play – Eli Wallach

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – Maureen Stapleton

* 1951 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design – Boris Aronson

In 1952, he won Broadway's 1951 Special Tony Award for Don Juan in Hell.

* Tony Black ( born 1951 ), record-holding jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.

* Tony Black ( born 1951 ), a record-holding jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing.

He undertook a number of roles on television in 1951 and met Tony Hancock who, along with Le Mesurier's wife, Hattie Jacques, starred in Educating Archie.

1951 was also the year that Tony Hancock joined Le Mesurier's wife, Hattie Jacques in the series Educating Archie ; Le Mesurier and Hancock became friends and would often go for drinking sessions around Soho and ending up in jazz clubs.

*** Tony K. Burris ( 8 and 9 October 1951 )

Several other roles followed: Francis Goes to the Races ( 1951, co-starring Donald O ' Connor ); Son of Ali Baba ( 1952, co-starring Tony Curtis ); and Ain't Misbehavin ' ( 1955, co-starring Rory Calhoun ).

In 1951, she married actor Tony Curtis, her third husband, with whom she co-starred in five films, including Houdini ( 1953 ), The Black Shield of Falworth ( 1954 ), The Vikings and The Perfect Furlough ( 1958 ).

Leigh married her third husband, Tony Curtis, on June 4, 1951.

The musical ran for 1, 200 performances, winning five 1951 Tony Awards, including the award for Best Musical.

* 1951 Top Banana – Tony Award ( winner )

Tony Danza ( born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza ; April 21, 1951 ) is a U. S. actor known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss ?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards.

Primarily noted for stage roles, Hagen won her first Tony Award in 1951 for her performance as the self-sacrificing wife Georgie in Clifford Odets ' The Country Girl.