Timeline March 1951

Events in March 1951 5

• 1951 1951 World Snooker Championship Fred Davis Title 3 Winner: Fred Davis; Runner-up: Walter Donaldson. Score: 58–39.
• 1951 – 2004 Gerrie Knetemann De Kneet Beloved Dutch rider and 1978 World Champion; known for his wit and stage wins.
• 1951 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society For the 1936 paper Turing is elected FRS at thirty-eight, chiefly on the strength of On Computable Numbers. His war work, which is the reason most people who know him think he deserves it, cannot be mentioned.
• 1951 Iran Nationalizes Its Oil Industry Mossadegh government seizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company assets Iran's parliament, driven by Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, voted to nationalize the British-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The move triggered an international crisis and a British-led boycott of Iranian oil. The dispute culminated in the 1953 coup that removed Mossadegh from power.
• 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage Couple found guilty of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union A New York jury convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiracy to commit espionage for supplying American atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Judge Irving Kaufman sentenced them to death a week later. The case became a defining episode of Cold War-era espionage prosecutions; they were executed in 1953.