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| 1951 |
| | King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem | |
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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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| 1951 |
| | John Huston directs Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, based on a C.S. Forester story | |
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| 1951 |
| | The Rake's Progress, with music by Igor Stravinsky and libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman, has its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1951 |
| | British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England | |
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| 1951 |
| | Japanese film director Kurosawa Akira makes an international reputation with Rashomon | |
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| 1951 |
| | Labour loses the general election and Winston Churchill returns to Downing Street as prime minister | |
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| 1951 |
| | The cult of Chairman Mao is officially encouraged in China, partly through steady publication of his works | |
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| 1951 |
| | The first hydrogen bomb is successfully tested by the US at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands | |
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| 1951 |
| | Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins the first of five Grand Prix world championship titles | |
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