1951 was an OK year to be born. I was born at 5 am on Friday, September 21st, 1951. My younger sister, my brother and I were born in barns. (Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri)
Generation: Baby Boomer Chinese Zodiac: Rabbit Star Sign: Virgo, Libra rising
Sapphire is the modern birthstone for the month of September while Agate is the mystical birth stone (based on Tibetan origin). The zodiac gemstone for Virgo is carnelian. Lastly, the birthday stone for the day of the week ‘Friday’ is emerald.
The birth flower for 21^st September 1951 is Aster for memory.

https://youtu.be/Jl7P8sqxWug And So to Sleep Again

The number one song in US was And So to Sleep Again by Patti Page. The Red Badge of Courage, directed by John Huston, was one of the most viewed movie released in 1951 while Return To Paradise by James A. Michener was one of the best selling book. On TV people were watching Sky King. The US president was Harry S. Truman (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Clement Attlee (Labour)

Other September 21st famous birthdays

Stephen King

American screenwriter and prolific writer.

Leonard Cohen

Canadian novelist and songwriter-folksinger who became a Buddhist monk, shaving his head and living part-time in a monastery on Mount Baldy,..

Bill Murray

Ethan Coen
Herman Bernstein
Holidays
- Mabon – Neopagan festival of Mabon
- International Day of Peace of the United Nations, as propagated by Peace One Day
- In ancient Greece, the eighth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the secret rites in the Telesterion finish and the feast, Pannychis, begins.
- Philippines – Thanksgiving Day
- Independence Day in Malta (1964), Belize (1981) & Armenia (1991)
- Also see September 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Observances International Day of Peace

List of Major News Events

United States government began nuclear bomb testing at a test site in Nevada
The first direct-dial coast to coast telephone call was made
The popular television show “I Love Lucy” premieres on CBS.
Development of Birth Control Pill
The popular film “The Day the Earth Stood Still” debuts.
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Trailer – The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Disney film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland debuts in theaters. The Disney film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland
The first commercial computer, UNIVAC, is put into use at the U.S. Census Bureau.
Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) began operating in Idaho.
The Festival of Britain opens at the Royal Festival Hall
First Color Television Pictures broadcast from Empire State Building

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John Lee Hooker – I’m In The Mood (1951) Blues

September 8
- Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.
- Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.

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Lightnin’ Hopkins – Coffee Blues (1951)

Cost of Living 1951 – How Much things cost

Yearly Inflation Rate USA 7.88% Yearly Inflation Rate UK 9.5% Average Cost of new house $9.000.00 Average wages per year – $3,510.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas 19 cents Average Cost of a new car – $1,500.00 Loaf of Bread – 16 cents LB of Hamburger Meat – 50 cents Bacon per LB – 52 cents —
Eggs per dozen – 24 cents WaterJacketHeater ( Asbestos ) Baby Diapers ( Cotton ) – From $2.79 Children’s Tricycle – From $14.00 Average House Price UK – 2,115 –

October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.

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Ray Charles – A Sentimental Blues (1951)

MGM‘s Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron and directed by Vincente Minnelli, premieres in New York. It will go on to win six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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(1951) RPM 339-A ”3 O’Clock Blues” B.B. King
The Bihari brothers recorded the first B.B. King sides at the colored YMCA on Lauderdale in Memphis.
”I called B.B., and I said, ‘I’m coming in”’said the youngest brother, Joe Bihari, twenty-six-years-old and now in charge of the field recording division. ”We rented a room in the black YMCA, big room, and had to put up blankets over the windows so you wouldn’t hear the noise from the cars outside”.

B.B. King had assembled a splendid crew of up-and-coming musicians for local gigs that he dubbed the Blues Boys. “The group first was mine, and then it was called the Beale Streeters after that,” he explained. “The Beale Streeters, at that time, consisted of Richard Sanders, Johnny Ace was the piano player – his name was John Alexander, but he later started making records under his own name with the Beale Streeters. In fact, the whole group was the group that I put together when we made ”3 O’Clock Blues”. But when ”3 O’Clock Blues” became a hit and I started to work out of a booking agency called Shaw Artists Corporation, and Universal (Attractions), they didn’t want me to have a band. ”They wanted me alone. So I left the band, and when I did, gave it to Johnny Ace. And that’s when he changed it. Instead of calling it the Blues Boys as it had been, he started calling it the Beale Streeters”.

B.B. picked up “3 O’Clock Blues” from fellow blues guitar master Lowell Folson, who scored his own first national hit with it in late 1948. B.B’s did even better, topping the Billboard’s rhythm and blues charts for five weeks in February and March of 1952. (CE)

Name (Or. No. Of Instruments) B.B. King – Vocal and Guitar Richard Sanders – Tenor Saxophone Phineas Newborn Jr. and/or Ike Turner – Piano Calvin Newborn – Guitar Possibly James Walker – Bass Unknown – Baritone Saxophone Phineas Newborn Sr. – Drums Adolph “Billy” Duncan – Tenor Saxophone Possibly Earl Forrest or Man-Son – Drums

November 22 – Paramount Pictures releases George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide.

December 17 – “We Charge Genocide“, a petition describing genocide
by the U.S. government against African Americans,
is delivered to the United Nations.

In a survey conducted with the U.S. armed forces in 1951, banana cream pie was voted the favorite dessert.