Born in 1951
Turns 75 in 2026
Gifts for someone born in 1951
1951 Front PageTheir name. The news from their year.Unframed from $50.50Add their name
Their birth chartThe sky as astrology reads it, cast for one birth.Unframed from $50.50
The Years We Were BornThe whole family, together in years.Unframed from $50.50
Our Story timelineTheir life, told in your words.Unframed from $50.50
Front Page: Australia edition. The year is filled in; add their name in the editor. “Your name” is a placeholder. Light news is selected. A new keepsake, not an original newspaper.
BACK TO 1951 · Australia
A little history to go with their gift.
The Festival of Britain turned post-war rebuilding into a public showcase of design, science and industry. That same year, delivery of UNIVAC I to the U.S. Census Bureau showed how electronic computing could help manage information on a national scale.
What happened in 1951?
Countries signed a convention on refugee status
The 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees was concluded at Geneva on July 28.
Froilán González won Silverstone’s British Grand Prix
Froilán González won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on 14 July 1951, Ferrari’s first Formula One championship victory.
Formula One World Championship Limited · Shell Global / Shell Historical Heritage & Archive
Japan and Allied nations signed a peace treaty
Japan, the United States and 47 other Allied nations signed the Treaty of Peace with Japan in San Francisco.
Wikimedia Commons · U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
The Town won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Conrad Richter won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Town, the final novel in his trilogy about Ohio during frontier times.
Firsts and new ideas
UNIVAC I made business computing visible
UNIVAC I was delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau on 14 June 1951, making large-scale electronic data processing tangible.
U.S. Census Bureau · Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Archives Center
EBR-I produced electricity from nuclear energy
The Experimental Breeder Reactor-I in Idaho generated usable electricity from nuclear energy on December 20, 1951.
Number ones and music in 1951
Chart positions belong to the country and chart named in each record.
Pee Wee King’s “Slow Poke” crosses to pop
Pee Wee King’s 1951 recording of “Slow Poke” became a fourteen-week No. 1 pop hit.
A sound takes shape
Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats recorded a new sound in Memphis in 1951.
Prices and everyday money in 1951
Australia figures in the money of the time. Units and sources matter: these are not today's prices.
| Item or measure | Then | Unit and source |
|---|---|---|
| Bread, delivered (about 2 lb loaf) | about 1s | per about 2 lb loaf Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Tea (½ lb equivalent) | about 1s 11d | per ½ lb equivalent Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Sugar (2 lb equivalent) | about 1s | per 2 lb equivalent Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| Potatoes (per lb equivalent) | about 4.1d | per lb equivalent Australian Bureau of Statistics |
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