The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1951
The Hudson Hornet wins the Piston Cup in auto racing. (Cars)
Michael Corleone marries college sweetheart Kay Adams, and their son Anthony is born. (The Godfather)
Norman Dale hired to coach Hickory Huskers basketball team. (Indiana) (Hoosiers)
Laura Brown can't put down 'Mrs Dalloway' while planning her husband's birthday party. (The Hours)
'When Worlds Collide' premieres. (LA Confidential)
A blacklisted Hollywood writer moves to a small town. (The Majestic)
John and Julia are photographed. (Liverpool, England) (Nowhere Boy)
Kal-El arrives from Krypton. (Smallville, Kansas) (Superman)
Superman's rocket lands on Earth (Kansas) (Superman)
A group of Air Force personnel fight and defeat an alien found frozen in ice. (The North Pole) (The Thing From Another World)
Tommy witnesses his father's murder and becomes blind, deaf and dumb from the trauma. (England) (Tommy)
Wednesday 14th February: Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta for the middleweight boxing championship after LaMotta refuses to fall; finally, in the 13th round, the referee stops the contest - Robinson wins. (Chicago Stadium, IL) (Raging Bull)
Tuesday 6th March: The Rosenberg trial begins. (New York) (Citizen Cohn)
Thursday 8th March: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck are executed by the electric chair for multiple murder. (Sing Sing Prison) (The Honeymoon Killers)
Sunday 25th March: Eddie Collins dies. (Boston, Massachusetts) (Eight Men Out)
Wednesday 11th April: US President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the US forces in Korea. (MacArthur)
Tuesday 29th May: Fanny Brice dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California) (Funny Girl)
Wednesday 18th July: Klaatu arrives on Earth with Gort and a cautionary message to halt experiments with violence, atomic energy, and space travel. (Washington DC) (The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951))
Wednesday 5th December: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson dies. (Greenville, South Carolina) (Eight Men Out)