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All Gotham was divided yesterday into three parts. The first of these the lordly Yankees inhabit; the second is the joyful country of the Giants; the third belongs to the fiercest and most... desperate of all, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Drum, Hugh A
Giants win 3d game and pennant on 9th inning homer by Bobby Thomson
elements of 5 UN divs launch massive offensive along 40-mi front NE of Korangpo; follow heavy barrage; SKs gain, extreme West; Brit backed by Centurion tanks take objective W O Yonchon; Greeks and US 1st Cavalry units resisted; Filipinos, Turks, 3d and 25th Div troops in action; UN ships back troops, Kosong-Kansong area; break up enemy attack; F4Us hit W coast; map
1951Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet and author[†]
Bakhytzhan Musakhanuli Kanapyanov is a Kazakh poet, writer, publisher, and translator. Kanapyanov is a member of the Russian and the Kazakh PEN clubs, an honorary professor at the Shakarim University (Semey) and an academician of the Crimean Literary Academy.
1951Truck Robinson, American basketball player and coach[†]
Leonard Eugene "Truck" Robinson is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Washington Bullets (1974–1977), Atlanta Hawks (1977), New Orleans Jazz (1977–1979), Phoenix Suns (1979–1982), and New York Knicks (1982–1985).
1951Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (born 1920)[†]
Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]