America - 1951AD
In 1951AD:
The 22nd Amendment restricted U.S. presidents to a maximum of two terms.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death for espionage against the U.S.
The first successful videotape for recording television images was demonstrated.
UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, was accepted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
Ten million television receivers had been installed in U.S. homes.
Artist Stuart Davis used words to function as abstract shapes in his painting
Visa
.
Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Jake La Motta for the middleweight title.
Comedian Lucille Ball starred in the television series
I Love Lucy
.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway musical
The King and I
was produced.
American writer James Jones published the war novel
From Here to Eternity
.
American poet Marianne Moore published her
Collected Poems
.
American novelist Kurt Vonnegut published
Player Piano
.
American writer J.D. Salinger published
The Catcher in the Rye
.
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