1951JanuaryJanuary 1: A daring robbery of a gnomish bank in Zurich nets 9.6 million Swiss francs.
January 2: Commissioning of the Spanish aircraft carrier
Pelayo, the first major naval vessel built in Spain since the war.
January 3: Four Soviet Jewish doctors are arrested on suspicion of being British and American agents.
January 4: Fall of Seoul to Chinese and North Korean forces.
January 5: US railroads reach their peak mileage at 429,356 miles.
January 6: Establishment of the Development Bank of Japan.
January 7: A magic axe is extracted from an oak tree in Central Park after being lodged there for 87 years; the young man responsible disappears into the crowd before his identity can be revealed.
January 8: A French submarine hits a suspected German mine in the Aegean Sea, sinking with the loss of all 38 men on board.
January 9: General Ridgway is authorised to retaliate in kind to any North Korean or Chinese chemical or biological attacks.
January 10: Reformation of the ANZAC Command under the overall control of the British Pacific Fleet, replacing the Australia and New Zealand Stations and covering Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, the Coral Sea, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the Southern Pacific Ocean.
January 11: A noted English paladin is located in solitary exile on Skellig Michael.
January 12: The Mutual Broadcasting System and DuMont Television Network reach an affiliation agreement to provide for optimum competition with the other three major broadcast networks.
January 13: In the latest of a series of incidents along the Bulgarian-Romanian border, Romanian troops fire upon a stray Bulgarian river patrol. In response, Bulgarian wizards destroy the machine gun post responsible with lightning bolts.
January 14: China issues strenuous protests against Allied use of napalm and heat rays in Korea.
January 15: Yugoslavia begins its period as chair of the Balkan Pact.
January 16: The Viet Minh launch an offensive towards French positions around Hanoi.
January 17: Britain and the United States sign a memorandum of understanding regarding the deployment of Strategic Air Command bombers in the British Isles.
January 18: Mongolian troops enter North Korea.
January 19: British diplomats present a new proposal whereby Germany would be allowed to re-arm and regain sovereign control of its armed forces while the concerns of Western European states would be assuaged with direct British and American security guarantees, the Rhineland would be demilitarised, a German alliance with Austria-Hungary would be strictly forbidden and appropriate limitations placed on the size of the German military.
January 20: Avalanches in Switzerland, Italy and Austria-Hungary kill 250 and temporarily bury up to 50,000 people
January 21: French objections to the conditional rearmament of Germany appear to be considerably reduced in ongoing talks in Paris; a series of private meetings between the French and British delegations appear to have been productive.
January 22: A USN report indicates that proposed reactivation of the Wyoming class battleships would not provide useful or economic service at this time and that the current force level of 12 ships each in the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets will prove sufficient. The older South Carolina class ships, although modernised in wartime, are viewed as being of even more marginal utility.
January 23: An Indian Government White Paper recommends that a full census be carried out by 1954.
January 24: The Eighth Army launches Operation
Thunderbolt, a counterstroke aimed at clearing the enemy from the southern bank of the Han.
January 25: The Imperial Mandarinate approves full funding for the 'Four Dragons' armoured vehicle programme.
January 26: A meeting of the Australian Cabinet approves a long term plan for the development of atomic production facilities in Australia for Imperial and independent defence.
January 27: Beginning of atomic testing at the Nevada Test Site.
January 28: A strange plague affecting cats begins to spread across Northwestern Europe, causing considerable consternation.
January 29: Opening of the first of the Happy Franz restaurant in Cleveland, specializing in the Vienna sandwich, a staple of Austro-Hungarian-American cuisine in the Midwest.
January 30: Belgium bans communists from making speeches on radio.
January 31: The Battle of the Twin Tunnels in Korea results in a decisive American victory over Chinese forces.
FebruaryFebruary 1: The League of Nations declares China to be an aggressor in the Korean War.
February 2: First telecast of an atomic explosion at the Nevada Test Site.
February 3: Capture of the key town of Chip’yong-ni by the US 2nd Infantry Division.
February 4: A USAF report states that almost 40% of the active fighter strength of the USAF is deployed to Korea and the Far East.
February 5: United Nations Command's X Corps launches Operation
Roundup, the second phase of a general counteroffensive against Chinese and North Korean forces.
February 6: A Pennsylvania Railroad train derails near Woodbridge, New Jersey, killing 85 and injuring over 500 passengers.
February 7: A party of dark elves raids a village in the Ardennes, taking ten captives.
February 8: Six infantry divisions are activated by the Indian Army in response to Chinese mobilisation.
February 9: Western Europe continues to enjoy an economic boom, due to reconstruction and the Marshall Plan.
February 10: Reports of strange apparitions appearing in an Iowa cornfield reach Des Moines.
February 11: The Imperial Chinese Army launches its Fourth Phase Offensive in Central Korea.
February 12: Walking trees are spotted in Northern Sweden.
February 13: The USN Third Fleet completes a major ASW exercise off Hawaii.
February 14: The House Committee of Un-American Conduct begins a new round of investigation into communists in Hollywood.
February 15: American and French victory in the Battle of Chipyong-Ni.
February 16: British rearmament and mobilisation continues to gather pace with the announcement of the reactivation of a further four reserve divisions, the recommissioning of the aircraft carriers
Indomitable and
Formidable, increased production of Centurion tanks and the issuing of 1951 production orders for over 3000 combat aircraft.
February 17: Investigations open into strange events at Green Knowe, Huntingdonshire.
February 18: The United States and its possessions officially become free of malaria.
February 19: Two men are arrested by Special Branch for suspicious activities in the vicinity of the top-security Windscale Atomic Plant in Cumbria.
February 20: General Ridgway launches Operation
Killer, an attritional offensive against Chinese forces
February 21: Construction begins on the first large scale atomic power station in Canada at Douglas Point, Ontario.
February 22: Qantas Empire Airways begins the first direct air service between Australia and South Africa.
February 23: Congress confirms President Truman's request for a cessation of the state of war with Germany.
February 24: A Hancock County, Maine farmer uncovers a lost Viking hoard worth an estimate $5 million.
February 25: Torrential rain and heavy flooding strikes southern Ceylon after a freak cyclone.
February 26: Two giants are killed by a Royal Norwegian Air Force Meteor near Bodo.
February 27: The 22nd Amendment is ratified, limiting future US Presidents to a maximum of two terms in office.
February 28: The first Congress of British West Africa opens in Lagos, Nigeria, consisting of delegates from Nigeria, Cameroon, the Gold Coast, the Ivory Coast, Guinea, Gambia and Sierra Leone.
MarchMarch 1: Megaladon attacks off Portugal kill four fisherman.
March 2: Joint Intelligence Conference in Jamaica between CIA and MI6.
March 3: Stalin orders that Soviet submarine construction be increased by 50% in light of the deteriorating international situation.
March 4: Belgian conscription extended to 24 months.
March 5: France's Commissariat général du Plan publishes its Second Five Year Plan, calling for an expansion in housing construction, heavy machinery and engineering, urban redevelopment and the production of consumer goods.
March 6: The trial of Juliet and Ethel Rosenberg begins in New York City.
March 7: An Air Ministry paper calls for the RAF to transition to an all jet combat force by the end of 1955, when a maximum active strength of 10,000 aircraft is expected to be reached. It is anticipated that this will entail keeping wartime jets such as the Meteor and Vampire in service for second line and colonial duties.
March 8: Opening of the Emperor Maximillian II Dam on the Tonto River in Oaxaca, Mexico.
March 9: The General Treaty is signed between Germany and the United States, Britain and France, ending Germany's status as an occupied territory.
March 10: A major convoy of British and Commonwealth reinforcements begin to disembark at Pusan, South Korea.
March 11: The relative popularity of baseball over cricket continues to grow in the United States, with a survey showing over 42% consider the former their favourite sport as compared to 21% for the latter.
March 12: Israel demands for monetary compensation from Germany for the sufferings of the Jewish people.
March 13: Marshal Zhukov approves a modernisation plan for the Red Army, supporting the establishment of motor rifle divisions and the development of new long ranged artillery.
March 14: Seoul liberated by Allied forces in Operation
Ripper.
March 15: Inauguration of Jacobo Arbenz as President of Guatemala.
March 16: A Nationalist coalition triumphs in the Argentine federal election, winning a clear majority of 56% of the popular vote.
March 17: Indonesia and the Netherlands agree to normalise the maritime boundary between Indonesia and the Moluccas.
March 18: Riots in Angora over new Ottoman taxation policies.
March 19: The Eighth Army launches Operation
Courageous, a push from the Han to the Imjin River.
March 20: Soviet NKVD agents begin fomenting socialist revolution in British possessions on Mars with varying degrees of success.
March 21: The Romanian Communist Party launches a series of purges of public servants and bureaucrats.
March 22: A strange and highly contagious jaundice-like plague hits the western United States and Canada, severely weakening victims.
March 23: Operation
Tomahawk: The 11th Airborne Division is dropped around Munsan-ni to support the Allied push northward.
March 24: A new series of street protests begin in Tehran against perceived British control of the Persian economy.
March 25: The Royal Navy battleships HMS
Superb and HMS
Vanguard arrive in Portsmouth after an eventual Korean war deployment.
March 26: The USAF issues a contract to the Glenn L. Martin Company for the manufacturing of an initial 370 Canberra jet bombers under licence from English Electric.
March 27: US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine forces in the Far East total 873,259 men.
March 28: A huge sapphire is stolen in a daring robbery at an exclusive resort in Cortina, Veneto.
March 29: The Rosenbergs are found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage.
March 30: Allied forces of the Eighth Army reach the 38th Parallel in Korea.
March 31: A mysterious astronomical anomaly is observed by Ministry of Space personnel at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
AprilApril 1: Opening of the Vladimir Lenin Steelworks in Krakow, Communist Poland.
April 2: Revelations of links between British Communists and Soviet Comintern agents lead to calls for increased active measures to prevent subversion in the press.
April 3: Italy signs an agreement with the United States for naval basing rights in Naples.
April 4: - UNC intelligence estimates credit China with 2700 planes based in Manchuria, about 800 of them Soviet-built jets. Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force General Hoyt Vandenberg expresses concern that the Allies are in danger of losing air superiority over North Korea.
April 5: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage.
April 6: The FBI launches a fresh crackdown on US crime syndicates, arresting 184 individuals across 23 states.
April 7: Ongoing disorder in the east of the Belgian Congo breaks out into full scale rebellion against colonial authorities.
April 8: An experimental rocket range is established in the Kazakh SSR.
April 9: The dismissal of female civil servants upon marriage in the Netherlands is abolished
April 10: The King of France arrives in Britain for a state visit amid great pomp and great security.
April 11: General MacArthur is officially relieved of command by President Truman for ongoing public statements at odds with Truman's policies and directions. The news is greeted by profound shock in Japan.
April 12: Commonwealth troops conduct a large scale offensive against suspected communist terrorist concentrations in Western Malaya supported by substantial naval and air forces.
April 13: The Swedish super dreadnought HMS
Gustav den Store is decommissioned at Karlskrona after 26 years active service.
April 14: The average cost of a new car in the United States falls to $1250 as consumer demand increases despite the Korean crisis.
April 15: A delegation of centaurs in Lyonesse demand the right to vote.
April 16: Formation of the first Panzer regiment of the new German Army.
April 17: General MacArthur arrives back in the United States and is received with a parade in San Francisco that attracts over 500,000 spectators.
April 18: A Ministry of Space report recommends the long-term development of an orbital battle station.
April 19: MacArthur gives an emotional farewell address to Congress, stating that 'old soldiers would never die, they just fade away.'
April 20: Soviet reconnaissance planes probe Swedish airspace over the Aland Islands.
April 21: American batsman Harry Schultz scores 240 and 156* in the First Test against the West Indies in New York City.
April 22: The Chinese Spring Offensive in Korea begins with over 1 million troops attacking United Nations Command lines.
April 23: A terrible fire on a train in Yokohama, Japan kills 104.
April 24: The First Battle of Imjin River sees British troops of the 3rd Infantry Division successfully withdraw under cover of a desperate rearguard action by the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.
April 25: Commonwealth troops win a hard fought victory at the Battle of Kapyong.
April 26: Border posts between Prydain and Argentina are closed as relations cool once more.
April 27: First successful interception of a QB-17 target drone by a Nike Ajax guided missile.
April 28: Newcastle United wins the FA Cup 2-1 over Blackpool at Empire Stadium in front of 127,000 spectators.
April 29: Australian federal election: Liberal-Country coalition returned to power with increased majority.
April 30: The Chinese Spring Offensive is finally halted 25 miles north of Seoul through the heavy use of poison gas (mainly mustard gas, phosgene and chlorine trifluoride).
MayMay 1: The Geneva Opera House is destroyed by a suspicious fire.
May 2: Use of black smoke against Chinese positions in Korea.
May 3: King George VI opens the Festival of Britain in London.
May 4: A coven of Norwegian witches is captured thanks to the intervention of a quick thinking boy.
May 5: The Saab 29 Tunnan enters full service with the Royal Swedish Air Force.
May 6: Amphibious landing at Kaesong by 2nd Royal Marine Division.
May 7: US, British and Australian ships conduct a show of force off the southern coast of Borneo.
May 8: Completion of a large steelworks in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
May 9: Successful test of the first multi-megaton thermonuclear device by the USA at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, recording a yield of 12.4 megatons.
May 10: The Chinese Republican government of Formosa offers to contribute troops to the United Nations Command effort in Korea.
May 11: 562 Allied aircraft attack Sinuiju near the Yalu in the largest single air raid of the Korean War to date.
May 12: The United States Navy and Royal Navy come to an official agreement for coordination of anti-submarine, surface and carrier forces in the Atlantic Ocean in the event of war in Europe.
May 13: Successful test of a new long range rocket in the Soviet Union.
May 14: The last communist backed rebels in Macedonia surrender to Byzantine Greek authorities.
May 15: A military coup overthrows the elected Bolivian government.
May 16: Over 140 Budapest policement fall sick after eating poisoned goulash.
May 17: Prime Minister Churchill condemns the Communist penetration of key trade unions as a threat to national security.
May 18: Protests across Germany calling for the release of war criminals held in Allied custody fall upon deaf ears.
May 19: Brazilian Premier Vargas announces the establishment of Petrobras, or Brazilian Petroleum.
May 20: Beginning of Operation
Strangle, concentrated US and Allied air attacks on Chinese supply lines in North Korea.
May 21: Missionaries in Burundi report the discovery a strange metallic ruin high in the mountainous jungles.
May 22: Launch of Operation
Fireball, the naval and air bombardment of the blockaded North Korean port of Wonsan.
May 23: Introduction of the first licenced flying carpet taxi service in London, after years of controversy.
May 24: The Burmese monsoon sinks an RN gunboat on the Irrawaddy.
May 25: The famed retired racehorse
Phar Lap begins a public speaking tour of the United States and Canada.
May 26: Establishment of a common labour market in Scandinavia.
May 27: 48 B-47s of the 306th Bombardment Wing of Strategic Air Command arrives in Britain for forward deployment rotation.
May 28: The report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences is delivered to Canadian Prime Minister Richardson by chairman Sir Vincent Massey.
May 29: US Vice President Finch arrives in Europe for a goodwill tour.
May 30: Iraq and Britain sign a 25 year extension of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty, causing some public disquiet.
May 31: USN Captain Charles Blair makes the first solo flight over the North Pole.
JuneJune 1: Signing of the International Cheese Treaty.
June 2: Allied forces in Korea reach the edge of the Haean-Myon Valley along Line Kansas.
June 3: Establishment of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian governments-in-exile in London.
June 4: Soviet and Romanian Communist authorities in Romania destroy Castle Dracula with 25,000 kg of high explosives.
June 5: End of the state of war between Canada and Germany.
June 6: Vice President Finch gives a speech in the Royal Gallery of the Palace of Westminster on Anglo-American friendship and cooperation.
June 7: French Lancaster and Mosquito bombers strike Viet Minh bases near the Chinese border in a series of heavy air raids.
June 8: The first lessons of the School of the Air are broadcast by the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Adelaide, Australia.
June 9: A British airborne brigade arrives in Southern Persia to provide security for British Petroleum oil facilities and personnel.
June 10: Opening of a new Commonwealth Experimental Rocket Facility in Upington, South Africa.
June 11: Portuguese Mozambique is officially redesignated as an overseas province of Portugal.
June 12: Morton Sobell is sentenced to death for espionage in New York City.
June 13: Halothane first synthesized by C. W. Suckling of Imperial Chemical Industries.
June 14: A Chinese submarine is sunk by RN destroyers off the coast of North Korea.
June 15: Large wildfires rage across several states and provinces of the North West of the United States and Canada.
June 16: The US Army successfully tests the new Rocket Pack Mark X at White Sands.
June 17: A major power black out strikes Philadelphia, leading to a sharp increase in opportunistic crime.
June 18: First flight of the Avro Canada CF-103.
June 19: The Suppression of Communism Act comes into effect in South Africa.
June 20: An 18 year old sailor is fined for kissing in public in Stockholm, Sweden.
June 21:
June 22: The USAF approves the name 'Atlas' for Convair's long range missile development project.
June 23: A hailstorm causes over $15 million of damage to crops and buildings in Kansas.
June 24: Swedish occupation troops withdraw from Germany to reinforce the garrisons of Bornholm and Gotland.
June 25: The British 3rd Infantry Division returns to Japan after a year's operational service in Korea.
June 26: Karrias the Mummy is sighted in Egypt.
June 27: Establishment of a new RN missile testing base at Canton on the Phoenix Islands.
June 28: Chinese night bombers strikes Allied positions along the Imjin River.
June 29: Development of high strength carbon fibre by engineers at the Royal Aircraft Establishment.
June 30: A parliamentary vote to cut funding for private British magical colleges is defeated.
JulyJuly 1: Commencement of the Colombo Plan.
July 2: An RAF Vanguard rocket launched from Woomera, South Australia successfully strikes its impact zone off the coast of Mabulag Island in the Torres Strait, a distance of 2487 miles.
July 3: Beginning of the United Nations Command Summer Offensive in Korea.
July 4: Formal acceptance of the atomic submarine HMS
Dreadnought into Royal Navy service.
July 5: Chile and Ecuador renew their defensive alliance for a further fifteen years.
July 6: Street disturbances in Cairo and Alexandria between Arabists and Pharoanists.
July 7: Imperial Steel opens a new large integrated steelworks in Belfast.
July 8: The Emperor of Mexico offers to arbitrate on the border dispute between Honduras and El Salvador.
July 9: Pyongyang is bombed by over 300 USAF and RAF heavy bombers overnight, causing considerable damage.
July 10: Randy Turpin beats Sugar Ray Robinson in London to claim the World Middleweight Championship.
July 11: A mob of several hundred whites attack an apartment building in Cicero, Illinois occupied by a single Negro family.
July 12: Establishment of the League of Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea.
July 13: The Great Flood of 1951 reaches its highest point in Kansas.
July 14: Dedication of the George Washington Carver National Monument in Joplin, Missouri.
July 15: Royal Marines capture Paechon.
July 16: A pig is disqualified from a sheepdog competition in Wiltshire.
July 17: Italy formally regains sovereignty of Sardinia, ending French occupation.
July 18: The active strength of the United States Army reaches 36 divisions and over 2.8 million men.
July 19: Socialists and communists engage in clashes in Japan.
July 20: Twenty-six communist terrorists are captured in a series of commando raids across Malaya.
July 21: Albert Einstein arrives in Israel for a high profile speaking tour on the relationship between science and world peace.
July 22: France withdraws its last regular garrison from Syria.
July 23: Finland and the USSR sign a joint agreement restating the agreed policy that no outside forces will be based on Finnish soil.
July 24: Formation of the Trucial Oman Levies.
July 25: Combat debut of the Soviet MiG-15 jet fighter over North Korea.
July 26: Conclusion of a joint Australian and New Zealand naval exercise in the Coral Sea.
July 27: A passenger ferry is sunk by a kraken off the coast of Norway.
July 28: German economic growth reaches 3.2% in the second quarter of 1951.
July 29: Discovery of large deposits of oil in Andalusia.
July 30: The Ilyushin Il-28 jet bomber enters service with the Soviet Air Force.
July 31: Back channel discussions through the agency Swiss Embassy in Persia begin regarding a possible negotiated settlement in Korea.
AugustAugust 1: A Japan Air Lines DC-3 crashes in Tokyo Bay, killing 22.
August 2: Chinese forces hold back a Commonwealth offensive north of the Imjin River.
August 3: Establishment of Mossad.
August 4: Conclusion of the classified Senate inquiry into the dismissal of General MacArthur.
August 5: A nine hour hunt fails to find a suspected Soviet submarine off the Firth of Forth.
August 6: Opening of the Imperial Conference in London.
August 7: General Van Fleet reports that the Eighth Army requires a further 50 artillery battalions and considerable armoured reinforcements in order to pursue offensive operations
August 8: Newfoundland is struck by several unnatural tidal waves along its northern coast.
August 9: Conclusion of the Lizardine Rebellion on Venus.
August 10: Boeing begins development of a jet airliner.
August 11: A major air battle over North Korea sees 9 F-86 Sabres shot down in exchange for 28 Red jets.
August 12: Establishment of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration.
August 13: A wave of vampire attacks strike rural Albania.
August 14: USAF fighter planes begin regular deployments to Canadian airfields.
August 15: The Soviet Union conducts their second atomic bomb test.
August 16: South Korean troops defeat a North Korean armoured attack along the Pukhan River.
August 17: The Royal Swiss Air Force takes delivery of it first English Electric Canberra bombers.
August 18: Beginning of the Battle of Bloody Ridge in Korea.
August 19: A new Sedition Act is passed by the House of Commons in response to concerns over Communist subversion.
August 20: Libya and Italy sign a security and cooperation treaty, paving the way towards eventual independence.
August 21: Ottoman Turkey announces a major programme to modernise the Imperial Air Force.
August 22: US wizards demonstrate a new arcane elevator in Chicago.
August 23: Formation of the Benelux Corps in Hannover, Germany.
August 24: The Experimental Breeder Reactor I at the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho begins power operation.
August 25: Four Territorial Army divisions are called up to active service for home defence duties, allowing regular forces to deploy abroad.
August 26: 29 Nazi war criminals are executed at Landsberg Prison by the U.S. Army.
August 27: Inflation in Britain reaches 5.12%.
August 28: Licenced production of US M48 tanks begins in Germany.
August 29: The British 5th Army is activated as an administrative headquarters for the two Commonwealth corps in Korea and Japan.
August 30: Signing of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Philippines.
August 31: Rhodesian Army AEC armoured cars exchange fire with Kushite rebels in the Sudan while on Imperial deployment.
SeptemberSeptember 1: Opening of the largest oil refinery in Europe at Southampton.
September 2: Retirement of the last Supermarine Spitfires in service with RAF Fighter Command.
September 3: 27 alleged Soviet spies are arrested in Norway and Sweden.
September 4: Establishment of the 1st Panzer Division of the Germany Army.
September 5: First atomic test of the Operation Buster-Jangle series in Nevada.
September 6: A rare giant roc is captured in Northern Persia.
September 7: The signing of the Treaty of San Francisco formally marks the end of the Pacific War, ending the Allied occupation of Japan and restoring its sovereignty. The Ryuku and Bonin Islands are to remain under US control. Separate security treaties provide for the ongoing presence of American and British forces in Japan.
September 8: Launch of Operation
Minden, a British Commonwealth offensive in Korea aimed at extending Allied lines to the north.
September 9: A giant bigfoot is sighted running alongside Route 66 in Oklahoma.
September 10: The Persian Majlis passes a motion denouncing the presence of British troops in Southern Persia.
September 11: Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel.
September 12: The last all-black unit of the United States Army is fully integrated.
September 13: Beginning of the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in Korea.
September 14: Byzantine Greece and France conclude an agreement on the licensed production of Dassault Ouragans.
September 15: Discussions begin regarding future political union between the crown colony of Cuba and the rest of the British West Indies.
September 16: Ten French Musketeers are fined or imprisoned for illegal duelling.
September 17: A successful Chinese rocket test of an R-1 missile in Inner Mongolia.
September 18: The U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee reports that the Soviet Union could deploy over 1 million men in 52 divisions in the event of intervention in the Korean War.
September 19: A train derailment in Illinois is prevented by a strangely costumed man.
September 20: First crossing of the North Pole in a jet aircraft.
September 21: Emil Zatopek runs 15,000m in a record time of 44:54.6.
September 22: Operation Summit: First mass heliborne combat deployment by US Marines near Kansong, Korea.
September 23: King George VI has his left lung removed in an operation after the discovery of a malignant tumour.
September 24: Debut of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' in American cinemas.
September 25: Establishment of the Organization of Central American States.
September 26: A blue sun is seen over Europe, the result of earlier Canadian forest fires.
September 27: Construction of an experimental nuclear facility is completed in Marcoule, France.
September 28: Deactivation of the last zebra cavalry units of the South African Army.
September 29: Geelong wins the 1951 VFL Grand Final, defeating Essendon 12.15 (87) to 11.9 (75) at the M.C.G.
September 30: Official ending of the Festival of Britain.
OctoberOctober 1: A Colonial Office report indicates that Kenya be granted internal responsible government by 1956.
October 2: Establishment of a US military training mission in Thailand.
October 3: Six Allied divisions launch Operation
Commando, an offensive aimed at consolidating the UNC position in Korea prior to the onset of winter.
October 4: Opening of Shopper's World, the first shopping mall in the United States, in Framingham, Massachusetts.
October 5: An English cricket team organised by the MCC arrives in India for a five match Test series.
October 6: An assassination attempt on Governor Sir Henry Gurney by Malayan communist terrorists is foiled by his personal bodyguards.
October 7: A USN airstrike in North Korea kills over 500 Communist political and military leaders.
October 8: Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Canada for a royal tour.
October 9: Creation of Bananas Foster in New Orleans.
October 10: Italian chemists announce that they have concluded, after a lengthy study, that a rose by any other name does not smell as sweet.
October 11: An entire US Marine battalion is relieved from the frontline in Korea by helicopters in Operation
Bumble Bee.
October 12: A Soviet war machine goes berserk during a parade in Stalingrad and is only subdued by artillery fire.
October 13: Discussions begin at Tangiers regarding the future status of the city.
October 14: Publication of
Prince Caspian, the second novel in C.S. Lewis's Narnia sequence.
October 15: Debut of the television comedy
I Love Lucy on CBS in the United States.
October 16: Meeting of the member states of the Arab League in Damascus.
October 17: Release of
Olympic, a Technicolour epic war film about the 1945 Allied invasion of Japan.
October 18: Reformation of the German Luftwaffe, with the first squadron equipped with F-84 Thunderjets.
October 19: Signing of the Treaty of New London on Mars between the British Empire and the Southern Barsoom Confederation.
October 20: Closure of the Lego factory in Billund, Denmark.
October 21: A savage storm in Southern Italy destroys several villages and kills 123 people.
October 22: Remaining members and units of Wolność i Niezawisłość and other associated Polish resistance forces are extracted to Austria-Hungary and Ruritania by Anglo-American intelligence agents.
October 23: Four B-29s are shot down and ten are damaged in a mission over North Korea, representing the last daylight mission flown by the Superfortress.
October 24: Maiden flight of the Saunders-Roe Duchess.
October 25: An earthquake in Formosa kills 104 people.
October 26: Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis in a widely publicised boxing match at Madison Square Garden.
October 27: Soviet wizards complete testing of a new long range spell mirror.
October 28: USN patrols in the Marianas fail to locate a rumoured marauding monster.
October 29: Signing of the Guianas Treaty between the four European colonial powers in the region.
October 30: Three Soviet intelligence officers defect to the American embassy in Sofia.
October 31: The British Army conducts a series of high profile exercises around the Suez Canal Zone.
NovemberNovember 1: Beginning of the first atomic military exercises, involving infantry and armoured forces, at the Nevada Test Site.
November 2: Execution of Arthur Destries for rape at Pentonville Prison, London.
November 3: Six New Zealand maritime union leaders are sentenced to lengthy periods of imprisonment over the earlier waterfront dispute.
November 4: The U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee reports that the Soviet Air Force has 30,000 aircraft to devote to the support of Soviet Army ground forces in the event of a war and estimates that the Soviet Union will have up to 150 atomic bombs by 1954.
November 5: Establishment of the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park in Catalonia, Spain.
November 6: Publication of the popular Finnish boardgame
Afrikan tähti, or 'The Star of Africa'.
November 7: Jordan institutes a new constitution.
November 8: Thousands see a flying saucer travelling over the night sky of Los Angeles, sparking widespread panic.
November 9: The first long range direct dial telephone call without operator assistance is made in the United States.
November 10: Mongol troops engage units of the South Korean Army on the coast of Eastern Korea.
November 11: A religious fanatic attempts to destroy the Great Pyramids of Giza with a rock hammer and falls to his death.
November 12: First performance by the National Ballet of Canada.
November 13: A band of Greek communists stage a daring escape from a military prison outside Athens.
November 14: CIA agents obtain photographs of the new Soviet battlecruiser
Kursk via a complex operation in the Ukraine.
November 15: Viet Minh guerrillas raid French positions on the outskirts of Hanoi.
November 16: An illegal high-stakes baccarat game in Bordeaux is raided by local police and a number of foreigners are taken into custody for questioning.
November 17: Two de Havilland Vixens collide in midair over the English Channel in a training accident, killing both pilots.
November 18: Commissioning of the supercarrier USS
Saratoga (CVA-61) at the New York Naval Shipyard.
November 19: Seven minotaurs interrupt a bullfight in Seville with a public protest at the sport.
November 20: The Po River floods in Northern Italy, destroying dozens of dwellings.
November 21: A wandering Bulgarian holy man heals a crippled woman in Varna.
November 22: Introduction of the Bedford RLHZ Self Propelled Pump, colloquially known as the 'Green Goddess' into service with the National Fire Service in Britain.
November 23: Stalin states that the Soviet Union will use all means and methods to defend itself and the achievements of world socialism.
November 24: A man spontaneously combusts after eating the world's hottest chilli at a Jamaican fair.
November 25: 17 people are killed in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama.
November 26: A Texan dwarf consumes four dozen oysters, six lobsters, two bowls of clam chowder, two 48oz porterhouse steaks, four fried chickens and a dozen mutton chops at a New York steakhouse, giving the owner the inspiration for its new name, 'The Hungry Dwarf'.
November 27: Spanish frigates sink two suspected pirate vessels off West Africa.
November 28: Chinese and North Korean forces in Korea begin a series of probing attacks and artillery bombardments along the Allied frontline.
November 29: The LEO computing engine becomes the first such machine employed by a commercial enterprise, J. Lyons and Co.
November 30: Arrest of 45 officers of the Egyptian Army by the Royal Guard.
DecemberDecember 1: President Harry Truman indicates that he will not contest the 1952 Presidential election.
December 2: The 40th and 45th Infantry Divisions of the US Army National Guard arrive in Korea to replace the 1st Cavalry Division and 24th Infantry Division.
December 3: Foundation of the Lebanese University in Beirut.
December 4: Mount Catarman on the island of Camiguin in the Philippines erupts in the most colossal volcanic eruption since Krakatoa in 1883. Over 8000 are killed in the resultant tsunami and thousands of others flee for their lives to Mindanao.
December 5: Philippine and American naval and air forces rush to aid the survivors of the Catarman eruption.
December 6: A state of emergency declared in Egypt.
December 7: First broadcast of
Dragnet on US television.
December 8: US Navy vessels of the 7th Fleet begin relief operations in response to the Catarman catastrophe.
December 9: German steel production for 1951 reaches 20 million tons in another sign of its ongoing reconstruction and economic growth.
December 10: Four USAF B-52 Stratofortresses arrive in Britain on the first stop of a world tour of American allies to showcase the strength and resolve of the United States.
December 11: Execution of Nazi war criminal General Friedrich Christiansen in the Netherlands.
December 12: Production of the GAZ Pobeda in the Soviet Union tops 800,000.
December 13: Chinese commando raids kill over 240 Allied soldiers in a day of bitter fighting in Korea.
December 14: SS
United States wins the Blue Riband, crossing the Atlantic at an average speed of 35.82 knots.
December 15: Commissioning of the first Floating Fortress of the Royal Navy.
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December 17: The Soviet Union vetoes a League of Nations Council resolution calling for the continued support of freedom of the seas.
December 18: The purge of Egyptian military continues, with dozens of mid ranking officers arrested amid growing unrest.
December 19: Completion of the London Tramways Modernisation Plan.
December 20: Bob Hope entertains over 20,000 US personnel at a Christmas show in Taejon.
December 21: Prime Minister Churchill announces that Britain has the hydrogen bomb.
December 22: Completion of modern defensive fortifications along the Allied side of the German-Polish border, matching the Soviet defences in what will become one of the defining images of the Cold War.
December 23: The electrification of rural Belgian communities is completed.
December 24: Declaration of a union between Tripolitania and Cyrenaica.
December 25: King George VI's Christmas message is broadcast to the Empire and Commonwealth on the BBC, having been previously recorded in three parts due to His Majesty's ongoing sickness.
December 26: Australia is beaten by the West Indies in the Third Test at Adelaide Oval by six wickets.
December 27: The World Conference for the Decolonisation of Asia opens its first meeting in Bangkok.
December 28: Orestius Cale becomes the first centaur to win a major radio quiz show in the United States.
December 29: Korea is gripped by a fierce winter storm, causing offensive action by both sides to grind to a halt.
December 30: Demonstration of a number of marvellous inventions at the New York Exposition of Magical Technology, including a talking mechanical horse, a self-cleaning kitchen, the world's first interactive children's book and a series of powerful new runes.
December 31: Expiration of the Marshall Plan, having distributed over $20 billion of American aid to Europe.
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