WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1951
Find out what all happened February to October 1951

The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. (4. September 1951)

UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau. (14. June 1951)

Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea. (11. April 1951)

King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium. (16. July 1951)

The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum. (15. May 1951)

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union. (5. April 1951)

Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee. (3. March 1951)

Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. (31. March 1951)

First Indochina War: In the Battle of Mao Khe, French Union forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflict a defeat on Việt Minh forces commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp. (28. March 1951)

The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its first episode on the CBS network. (3. September 1951)

A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. (4. July 1951)

The "Johnny Bright Incident" occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma (20. October 1951)

The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty. (1. September 1951)

The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history. (6. February 1951)

King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem. (20. July 1951)

CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later. (28. September 1951)

Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers. (14. May 1951)

The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC. (29. September 1951)

Dan Gavriliu performs the first surgical replacement of a human organ. (20. April 1951)

Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong. (22. April 1951)