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October 20, 1951

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Headlines from October 20, 1951

BROOKLYN'S PIERS TIED UP BY STRIKE; U.S. SEEKING PEACE; Mediators May Be Appointed Today on Sharkey Plea for Aid in Wildcat Walkout SHIPPING LINES HOLD FAST Employers Reported Confident Men Will Return--Bridges Denies All Responsibility

By George Horne

90 piers idle; motorcade pulls dockers off all Bklyn piers but 1; Sharkey appeals to FMCS Dir Ching for aid; Ching wires NY Shipping Assn and ILA for data; Sampson and other strike leaders conf with Ryan; threaten to tie up entire port; Bridges denies strike role; scares shape-up system; ACTU decries Ryan group efforts to blame Communists

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Notable Births

Al Greenwood

1951Al Greenwood, American keyboard player[†]

Alan Greenwood is an American rock musician who was a founding member and keyboardist of the rock band Foreigner from 1976 to 1980. He performed on the albums Foreigner (1977), Double Vision (1978) and Head Games (1979). In 2024, Greenwood was selected for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Foreigner.

Patrick Hall (politician)

1951Patrick Hall, English lawyer and politician[†]

Patrick Hall is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedford from 1997 to 2010. He was re-selected by the Labour Party as their candidate in Bedford for the 2015 general election, but failed to be re-elected to Parliament.

Ken Ham

1951Ken Ham, Australian-American evangelist[†]

Kenneth Alfred Ham is an Australian Christian fundamentalist, young Earth creationist, apologist and former science teacher, living in the United States. He is the founder, CEO, and former president of Answers in Genesis (AiG), a Christian apologetics organisation that operates the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter.

Leif Pagrotsky

1951Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish businessman and politician[†]

Leif Pagrotsky is a Swedish politician, economist, and diplomat. He served as minister of culture from 2004 to 2006 and minister for industry, employment and communications from 2002 to 2004 under Prime Minister Göran Persson. After this, he held the position of Consul General of Sweden in New York City from 2016 to 2018.

Claudio Ranieri

1951Claudio Ranieri, Italian footballer and manager[†]

Claudio Ranieri is a retired Italian professional football manager and former player who is the senior advisor of Serie A club Roma. As manager of Leicester City, he won the 2015–16 Premier League, a feat regarded as one of the greatest shocks in the history of sports.

Historical Events

Johnny Bright incident

1951The "Johnny Bright incident" occurs during a football game between the Drake Bulldogs and Oklahoma A&M Aggies.[†]

The Johnny Bright incident was a violent on-field assault against African-American player Johnny Bright by Wilbanks Smith, a white opposing player during an American college football game held on October 20, 1951, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The game was significant in itself as it marked the first time that an African-American athlete with a national profile and of critical importance to the success of his team, the Drake Bulldogs, had played against Oklahoma A&M College at Oklahoma A&M's Lewis Field. Bright's injury also highlighted the racial tensions of the times and assumed notoriety when it was captured in what was later to become both a widely disseminated and eventually Pulitzer Prize–winning photo sequence.

Historical Context for October 20, 1951

In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]