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In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]
1951Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (died 2015)[†]
James Aaron Diamond was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his three top 5 hits: "I Won't Let You Down" (1982), as the lead singer of PhD; and his solo performances "I Should Have Known Better", a United Kingdom No. 1 in 1984, and "Hi Ho Silver", the theme song from Boon, which reached No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986.
1951CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.[†]
Color television or colour television is a television transmission technology that also includes color information for the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set. It improves on the monochrome or black-and-white television technology, which displays the image in shades of gray (grayscale). Television broadcasting stations and networks in most parts of the world transitioned from black-and-white to color broadcasting between the 1960s and the 1980s. The invention of color television standards was an important part of the history and technology of television.
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W Ger Parliament unanimously backs Chancellor Adenauer's plan for restitution; total payments put at $600 million in goods; Comr McCloy message lauds Adenauer; Israeli Govt spokesman says Gers should aid absorption and rehabilitation of survivors of Nazi persecution; says E Ger shares liability; Amer Jewish Com hails Govt action
OPS repts 1 1/2-2¢ beef price rise; 254 violators held; criminal charges preferred against Excel Inc; price and grading order discussed; retailers need not show ceilings with cuts but must post prices; Cudahy cuts beef output to 50% of '50; blames controls
Pres Truman message to Cong requests law requiring apptees to file annual rept on total income, including gifts and loans
Boyle testifies; denies using influence as Dem chmn to influence Lithofold loan or any Govt agency; is challenged to sue Post-Dispatch; questioned on Hise-Blauner link; claims vindication by all testimony; says cases Siskind took over were not 'sold'; subcom members comment
Cong conf votes to end ECA in '52
Gross gets 12 yrs; McDonald reads grand jury minutes with names of police expunged
9 agents suspended from San Francisco office; Collector Smyth, Deputy Collector Cunningham, P V Doyle, J A Malone, J J Boland, M J Tierney and I A Beresford for incompetence; E M Furtado for manipulation of accts, D C Frisbie for embezzlement; other investigations and changes recalled; C F Masarik Jr succeeds Smyth; Smyth comment
Ruppell resigns as Richmond Pub Works Comr; resignation as Repub County chmn demanded; Gatz goes on leave; Costantino suspended; Dewey orders special Sup Ct for inquiry; Justice Benvenga to head ct
Order asking employes to withhold information that might embarrass agency rescinded on Truman request; directive drew bipartisan Cong attack; DiSalle assails directive, Chicago
LONDON, Sept. 27--On his sickbed in Buckingham Palace King George signed today a royal warrant appointing five members of his immediate family Counselors of State to relieve him of most of his constitutional duties during his illness.