1951
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Events
- Last year of the U.S. Occupation of Japan.
- Robert A. Heinlein publishes The Puppet Masters.
- Tuvan Soviet puppet ruler Solchak Tolka wins the Stalin Prize for Literature for his Three Years as a Cell Secretary.
- China's population is 563 million.
Timeline
- January 4: North Korean/Chinese forces recapture Seoul. Seoul is re-recaptured once again on March 18.
- January 10: Sinclair Lewis dies.
- February 20: Future British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
- February 23: Japanese Communist Party holds Fourth National Convention and decides to foment an armed rebellion using homemade weapons.
- February 26: The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution.
- February 26: Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater is born.
- March 29: Photogapher Huynh Cong Út, a.k.a. Nick Ut is born.
- April 11: President Harry Truman fires Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
- August 13: Expiration of the five year time limit for 176 Native American tribes to file claims before the Indian Claims Commission.
- August 20: Science fiction author Greg bear is born.
- September 8: San Francisco Peace Treaty formally ending the Second World War in the Pacific is signed at the San Francisco Opera House. Five hours later the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty os also signed. Shortly afterward 51% of polled respondents in Japan say that they aprrove of the government of Prime Minister Yoshida. His popularity soon declines.
- September 29: MEP Pier Luigi Bersani is born in Bettola, Piacenza, Italy.
- December 15: Maurice Papon is appointed secretary-general of the Paris police prefecture.