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| 1951 |
| | The Twenty-Second Amendment to the US Constitution prevents anyone being elected for more than two presidential terms | |
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| 1951 |
| | Jacopo Arbenz, newly elected president of Guatemala, enrages the USA by expropriating the land of the United Fruit Company | |
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| 1951 |
| | Elia Kazan directs Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in the film of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire | |
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| 1951 |
| | Syntex, a small chemical company in Mexico City, develops the first oral contraceptive | |
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| 1951 |
| | German-born US philosopher Hannah Arendt links Hitler's and Stalin's regimes in The Origins of Totalitarianism | |
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| 1951 |
| | Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner open on Broadway in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I | |
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| 1951 |
| | Catcher in the Rye is US author J.D. Salinger's immensely successful first novel | |
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| 1951 |
| | British-Canadian choreographer Celia Franca founds the National Ballet of Canada | |
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| 1951 |
| | The Batllistas, followers in Uruguay of José Batlle, attempt an unusual experiment in the reform of government | |
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| 1951 |
| | US novelist Carson McCullers publishes a collection of stories, The Ballad of the Sad Caf&eacaute; | |
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