Historical Events in July 1951

Jul 3 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakmont GC: Sam Snead beats Walter Burkemo, 7 & 6 for his 3rd PGA C'ship title

Jul 5 Dr William Shockley invents the junction transistor (Murray Hill, NJ)

Jul 6 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Dick Savitt wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ken McGregor of Australia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
Jul 6 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Englishman Max Faulkner wins by 2 strokes from Antonio Cerdá of Argentina
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Doris Hart outclasses fellow American Shirley Fry 6-1, 6-0 for her only Wimbledon singles title

Jul 8 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and manager Casey Stengel feud

Jul 9 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

Jul 10 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
Jul 10 Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
Jul 12 Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero, Illinois

Jul 14 In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by 4 lengths, to become American racing's first millionaire horse.
Jul 16 King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates
Jul 16 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval

Jul 16 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company

Jul 17 Leopold III, King of the Belgians, abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I
Jul 17 Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered
Jul 18 Uruguay accepts its constitution

Jul 18 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion

Jul 19 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
Jul 20 King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem

Jul 21 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet

Jul 22 General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal
Jul 26 Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
Jul 28 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC after 1077 performances

Jul 28 Walt Disney's animated musical film "Alice In Wonderland" released

Jul 30 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players