1951 Plymouth Concord Update

"Louie", my 1951 Plymouth Concord, came to life Sunday (10-23-05) for the first time since I've owned him. He's been able to crank and run but not move under his own power. Needing brake work, I knew that I had to get him out of the garage. Keep in mind, I have no brakes whatsoever. That'll all be fixed in a couple of days. All I will need then is new tires.

I know you've been wondering.... So what was happening in 1951. Well, sit down in front of the fire and let me tell you the story. It went something like this. It was a cold January.

January 15 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.

January 17 - Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.

January 27 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

February 4-8 - Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in 96-hour long operation in Chicago, Illinois. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg / 308 lbs

February 19- Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her two pimps are hanged for the murder and tourture of a 73 year old bookmaker.

February 27 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

March 6 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

March 12 - The Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.

March 29 - Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.

May 3 - The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

October 26 - Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden

November 1 - First military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, in the Nevada desert

November 10 - Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

Birthdays:
January 12 - Kirstie Alley, American actress
January 12 - Rush Limbaugh, American radio personality
January 30 - Phil Collins, English musician
February 15 - Jane Seymour, English actress
February 18 - Dale Earnhardt, American racing car driver (d. 2001)
March 17 - Kurt Russell, American actor
March 24 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
April 10 - Steven Seagal, American actor
April 29 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
May 19 - Joey Ramone, American musician (The Ramones) (d. 2001)
May 26 - Sally Ride, astronaut
September 22 - David Coverdale, English singer
October 7 - John Mellencamp, American musician and songwriter

According to Wikipedia.com, Dale Earnhardt was born twice in 1951. What a truely lucky guy.