1951
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Events edit
- January 15 - Ilse Koch is sentenced to life in prison by a West German court.
- January 31 - Getúlio Vargas is elected President of Brazil for the second time.
- February 9 to 11 - The Geochang Massacre takes place.
- February 26 - 22 intellectuals are executed without trial in Tirana, Albania on Enver Hoxha's orders after being accused of bombing a Soviet embassy.
- April 5 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are found guilty of high treason and are sentenced to death.
- May 23 - The Seventeen Points Agreement is signed by the Communist Party of China and Tibet, ceding sovereignty over Tibet to China.
- June 28 - Both the Cambodian People's Party and the Communist Party of Kampuchea break away from the Indochinese Communist Party.
- October 6 - Sir Henry Gurney, the British high commissioner in Malaya, is assassinated by members of the Communist Party of Malaya.
- December 24 - Idris of Libya is proclaimed King of Libya after Libya declares independence from Italy.
Births edit
Villain births edit
- February 3 - Blaise Compaoré
- February 16 - David Birnie
- February 17 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
- March 21 - Buck Zumhofe
- April 5 - Phillip Garrido
- April 13 - Joseph Paul Franklin
- April 14 - Bruce Mendenhall
- April 15 - Paul Snider
- May 6 - Samuel Doe
- May 22 - Kenneth Bianchi
- May 23 - Catherine Birnie
- May 31 - Becky Fischer
- June 6 - Frank Spisak
- June 19 - Ayman al-Zawahiri
- June 27 - Leonard Fraser
- July 3 - Jean-Claude Duvalier
- July 13 - Steve "Clem" Grogan
- August 8 - Mohammed Morsi
- August 16 - Jack Unterweger
- September 1 - Édouard Karemera
- September 12 - Gerald Stano
- September 26 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr.
- October 28 - Marvin Heemeyer
- October - Terry Jones
- December 10 - Rosmah Mansor
- Unknown - David McGreavy
- Unknown - Juvenal Uwilingiyimana
- Unknown - Fred Woods
Victim births edit
- February 7 - Elsie Frost
- February 12 - Steven Parent
- February 14 - Janice Ott
- February 23 - Marina Habe
- April 11 - Doris Angleton
- September 20 - Caryn Campbell
- October 2 - David Faraday
- October 21 - Dave Sanders
- October 24 - Meredith Hunter
- November 8 - Brenda Ball
Deaths edit
Villain deaths edit
- June 7 - Oswald Pohl, Paul Blobel, Otto Ohlendorf & Erich Naumann
- July 23 - Philippe Pétain
- October 15 - Halsted Ritter
Victim deaths edit
- October 6 - Sir Henry Gurney