About the day » Tuesday October 9, 1951Calender converter

• Helio Vieira de Moraes, Itapetininga, São Paulo, Brasil († 2001)
• Maria Elisabeth Berendina (Marian) Lambers, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2009)
• Ida Both, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2013)
• Starlet G Lasky († 2004)
• Jann Elaine Buss, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2018)
• Annette Lorraine Croneen Macdonald, East-London, South Africa († 2016)
• Donald J. Heideman, Sheboygan, Wisconsin († 2022)
• Bertina Aleida Johanna Elings, Nijmegen († 2007)
• Henricus Verhaert, Kapellen, Provincie Antwerpen († 1997)
• Johanna(Jannie) van der Zalm, Scheveningen

• Anna Herweyer (66), Lake City (Missaukee County) (Michigan)
• Cornelia Apollonia Legierse (34), Rotterdam
• Arthur Howles (42), Cetral Falls, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten
• Anthonius Theodorus de Bruijckere (20)
• Adriaan christiaan Westenborg (40), Batavia
• Cornelia de Frel (76), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Charles Louis Huellman (76), Kokomo, Howard, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Child Manzke (0), Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Anje (Angie) Poort (69), Muskegon, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Daniel Albrecht Meyer (75)

• 1949 » Mark Hopkinson, American mass murderer († 1992)
• 1949 » Rod Temperton, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2016)
• 1950 » Brian Downing, American baseball player
• 1950 » Jody Williams, American academic and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 » Reichi Nakaido, Japanese singer and guitarist
• 1950 » Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
• 1952 » Dennis Stratton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 » John Rose, English businessman
• 1952 » Sharon Osbourne, English television host and manager
• 1952 » Simon Drew, English illustrator

• 1943 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Gottlieb Hering, German captain (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Frank Castleman, American football player, baseball player, and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (b. 1888)
• 1950 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (b. 1895)
• 1953 » James Finlayson, Scottish-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1955 » Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (b. 1875)
• 1956 » Marie Doro, American actress (b. 1882)
• 1958 » Pope Pius XII (b. 1876)
• 1959 » Shirō Ishii, Japanese general and biologist (b. 1892)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
• May 23 » Tibetans sign the Seventeen Point Agreement with China.
• September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
• October 16 » The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
• November 2 » Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
• November 10 » With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
• December 31 » Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

The temperature on October 9, 1951 was between 2.9 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.