WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1951
Find out what all happened May to December 1951

Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, England, United Kingdom. (26. July 1951)

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is published for the first time by Little, Brown and Company. (16. July 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)

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

The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi. (16. October 1951)

Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial. (15. November 1951)

Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong. (10. July 1951)

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

Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. (24. December 1951)

The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition – a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School. (21. May 1951)

The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru. (13. May 1951)

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

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

William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor. (4. July 1951)

Korean War: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3. (2. November 1951)

The British radio comedy program The Goon Show was broadcast on the BBC for the first time. (28. May 1951)

With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. (10. November 1951)

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

Libya became an independent country. (21. December 1951)