Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

His Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, became a widely copied industry standard.

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

48-215 sedans were produced in parallel with the 50-2106 coupé utility from 1951 ; the latter was known colloquially as the " ute " and became ubiquitous in Australian rural areas as the workhorse of choice.

He was an active professor at Illinois from 1951 to 1975 and then became Professor Emeritus.

The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.

After successfully running the midget at some hillclimbing events in 1951, Brabham became interested in road racing.

In 1951 he became a member of the CDU executive board.

Production of an initial batch of 250 began in 1951, but it became clear that they could not be made at a competitive price besides which the advent of transistor radios with their much lower power requirements meant that the original rationale for the set was disappearing.

After the war, he became a consultant to the International Auxiliary Language Association, which would present Interlingua in 1951.

On May 15, 1951, Williams became the 11th player in major league history to hit 300 career home runs.

Soon after the signing of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, it became clear that refugees were not solely restricted to Europe.

WMO became the specialized agency of the United Nations in 1951 for meteorology ( weather and climate ), operational hydrology and related geophysical sciences.

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

The family remained there only briefly and in December 1951 they moved to Presque Isle, Maine where Grissom was assigned to Presque Isle Air Force Base and became a member of the 75th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.

After a short stint as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television.

With the advent of the New State regime ( Estado Novo ) extended to the colony, in 1951 Angola became a province of Portugal ( Ultramarine Province ), called the Província Ultramarina de Angola ( Overseas Province of Angola ).

The Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.

He became " one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century " after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and East of Eden ( 1955 ).

In 1951, Lee Strasberg became its director, and it remained a non-profit enterprise, eventually considered " the nation's most prestigious acting school ," according to film historian James Lipton.

Starting with the 1940 models the leaping ram became more streamlined and by 1951 only the head, complete with curving horns, remained.

It was experimentally discovered by Martin Deutsch at MIT in 1951, and became known as positronium.

In 1951, it became an overseas province.

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.

Derleth also changed Alhazred's final fate, as described in his short story " The Keeper of the Key ", first published in May 1951.

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

In 1951 he invented and tested the first explosively pumped flux compression generators, compressing magnetic fields by explosives.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

The atom probe is closely related to the method of Field Ion Microscopy, which is the first microscopic method to achieve atomic resolution, occurring in 1951.

They continued playing in clubs as well as over the radio around Philadelphia, and in 1951 made their first recordings.

The first new brewery was opened in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and was the first of nine to open over the course of the next 25 years.

Although the Attlee Government failed to meet its targets, primarily due to economic constraints, over a million new homes were built between 1945 and 1951 ( a significant achievement under the circumstances ) which ensured that decent, affordable housing was available to many low-income families for the first time ever.

The Perkins Brailler, first manufactured in 1951, uses a 6-key chord keyboard ( plus a spacebar ) to produce braille output, and has been very successful as a mass market affordable product.

The most comprehensive history is still Hubert Jedin's The History of the Council of Trent ( Geschichte des Konzils von Trient ) with about 2500 pages in four volumes: The History of the Council of Trent, The fight for a Council ( Vol I, 1951 ); The History of the Council of Trent The first Sessions in Trent ( 1545 – 1547 ) ( Vol II, 1957 ); The History of the Council of Trent Sessions in Bologna 1547 – 1548 and Trent 1551 – 1552 ( Vol III, 1970, 1998 ); The History of the Council of Trent Third Period and Conclusion ( Vol IV, 1976 ).

The first Pakistani census after the proclamation of independence was conducted in 1951.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

* Herman Badillo ( 1951 ), Civil rights activist and the first Puerto Rican elected to the U. S. Congress

This promotion was completed when Joseph II consecrated the first Ethiopian-born Archbishop, Abuna Basilios, as head of the Ethiopian Church on 14 January 1951.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

In 1951, Leo Fender independently released his Precision Bass, the first commercially successful electric bass guitar.

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

He was the first Research Director of the International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ), which presented the Interlingua conference in 1951.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The first Japanese film in color was Carmen Comes Home directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and released in 1951.

* 1951 – The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.