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1951 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1951 in the United Kingdom.

1 Incumbents
2 Events
- 2.1 Undated
3 Publications
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References
7 See also

Incumbents

Monarch - King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Prime Minister - Clement Attlee Labour Party, Winston Churchill Conservative Party

Events

11 April - The Stone of Scone is located in Forfar, having been stolen by Scottish Nationalists.^[1]
17 April - the submarine HMS Affray sinks, killing its 75 crew.^[2]
March - Pineapple Poll, a Gilbert and Sullivan inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras is premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre by the Sadler's Wells Ballet.^[3]
3 May - George VI opens the Festival of Britain.^[4]
28 May - first broadcast of The Goon Show radio series.^[1]. Princess Elizabeth opens the Exhibition of Industrial Power - the latest part of the Festival of Britain - in Glasgow. [1]
7–8 June - Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defect to the USSR.^[5]
10 July - Boxer Randy Turpin beats the American Sugar Ray Robinson in a fight in London to become world middleweight champion.
15 August - the first Miss World beauty pageant is held as part of the Festival of Britain.^[5]
14 September - Clement Attlee opens the largest oil refinery in Europe at Fawley on Southampton Water.^[6]
23 September - George VI has an operation to remove part of his lung.^[7]
30 September - Festival of Britain ends.^[8]
26 October - Conservative Party under Winston Churchill wins the general election, regaining the position of Prime Minister that he lost six years previously.^[9]
31 October - Zebra crossings, a type of pedestrian crossing, introduced.^[1]
2 November - 6,000 British troops are sent to Egypt to deal with anti-British disturbances at Fayid in the Suez Canal Zone of the country.^[10]
20 November - More than 1,000 families of British servicemen begin to move out of the Suez Canal Zone of Egypt after a shooting which claimed the lives of five British soldiers as well as nine Egyptian civilians.^[11]
20 November - The 1951 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are announced, to mark the resignation of Prime Minister Clement Attlee.^[12]
10 December - John Cockcroft wins the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Ernest Walton "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles".^[13]
25 December - King George VI makes the Christmas Speech to the Commonwealth, but it has been pre-recorded due to his ill health as he is still struggling to recover from an operation three months ago in which he had part of a lung removed. [2]
31 December - Prime minister Winston Churchill sets off to the United States of America for talks with president Harry S. Truman. [3]

Undated

The first three National parks of England and Wales are established: Snowdonia, the Peak District and the Lake District.

Publications

Agatha Christie's novel They Came to Baghdad.
Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair.
C. S. Lewis' novel Prince Caspian.
Nicholas Monsarrat's novel The Cruel Sea.
Anthony Powell's novel A Question of Upbringing, first in the 12-volume cycle A Dance to the Music of Time.
John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids.

Births

5 January - Steve Arnold, footballer
30 January - Phil Collins, musician and producer
14 February - Kevin Keegan, footballer and football manager
15 February - Jane Seymour, actress
20 February - Gordon Brown, Prime Minister
27 February - Steve Harley, musician (Cockney Rebel)
1 March - Mike Read, television presenter and radio disc jockey
4 March - Kenny Dalglish, footballer and football manager
4 March - Chris Rea, singer and musician
13 April - Peter Davison, actor
14 April - Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist and composer
20 April - Louise Jameson, actress
25 April - Ian McCartney, politician
8 June - Bonnie Tyler, singer
14 June - Paul Boateng, politician
28 June - Lalla Ward, actress
24 July - Chris Smith, politician
19 August - John Deacon, bassist (Queen)
22 September - David Coverdale, singer
26 September - Stuart Tosh, musician
27 September - Paul Craig, professor of law
2 October - Sting, musician
15 November - Alamgir Hashmi, poet
19 November - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, politician
8 December - Bill Bryson, American-born British author
10 December - Doug Allder, footballer
20 December - Peter May, novelist and television dramatist

Deaths

25 February - Percy Malcolm Stewart, industrialist (born 1872)
6 March - Ivor Novello, actor, musician, and composer (born 1893)
6 April - Robert Broom, paleontologist (born 1866)
14 April - Ernest Bevin, labour leader, politician, and statesman (born 1881)
22 April - Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist (born 1870)
24 April - James Maclay, 1st Baron Maclay, businessman and public servant (born 1857)
11 June - W. C. Sellar, humourist (born 1898)
3 July - Gwendoline Davies, philanthropist (born 1882)
21 August - Constant Lambert, composer (born 1905)
27 September - Robert Thomas, politician (born 1873)
29 September - Evan Roberts, preacher (born 1878)
11 October - Donald Cameron, 25th Lochiel, Scottish chieftain (born 1876)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ ""Fears for crew of lost British submarine", BBC On This Day". 1951-04-17. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/17/newsid_2847000/2847935.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
^ ""King George opens Festival of Britain", BBC On This Day". 1951-05-03. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/3/newsid_2481000/2481099.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ ^a ^b "The Lost Decade Timeline, BBC". http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/lostdecade/timeline_html.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ ""Refinery opens as oil row continues", BBC On This Day". 1951-09-14. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/14/newsid_3051000/3051902.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ ""King has lung operation", BBC On This Day". 1951-09-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/23/newsid_3083000/3083301.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ "Festival closes to applause, BBC On This Day". 1951-09-30. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_3161000/3161521.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ ""Churchill wins general election", BBC On This Day". 1951-10-26. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/newsid_3687000/3687425.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ ""6,000 British troops flown into Egypt", BBC News". 1951-11-02. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/2/newsid_3167000/3167115.stm. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
^ ""1951: British families leave Egypt's Canal Zone", BBC On This Day". 1951-11-20. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/20/newsid_3204000/3204331.stm. Retrieved 2008-02-03.
^ The Times, Friday, November 30, 1951; pg. 6; Issue 52172; col G: "The Resignation Honours: Earldom For Lord Jowitt".
^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/. Retrieved 2008-02-03.

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