1951
As the year began, 70% of America's 2,905,000 armed forces were fighting in the Korean War.
Seoul was recaptured by U.N. forces on March 14th. "Truce Talks" were held beginning in July.
President Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of all his posts after MacArthur insisted that U.N. forces invade Communist China. MacArthur quoted the refrain of a popular barracks ballad during his farewell address to Congress.
Costs exceeded a billion dollars when the Missouri River flooded farmland in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Kansas City sustained major damage when levees gave way in July.
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and sentenced to death on treason charges. The couple was accused of giving Soviet Russia the technology for the atomic bomb.
AT&T became the first corporation to have over 1,000,000 stockholders.
Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King & I opened on Broadway, starring Yul Brynner & Gertrude Lawrence.
