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- From top to bottom, left to right: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage in the United States; the Treaty of San Francisco officially ends World War II and re-establishes Japan’s sovereignty; the Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry under Mohammad Mosaddegh challenges Western control of Middle Eastern resources; the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute becomes one of the country’s longest and most bitter industrial conflicts; the 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea kills thousands; The King and I premieres, becoming a hit musical and cultural phenomenon; UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer in the U.S., is delivered; the 1951 Nepalese revolution ends the Rana autocracy and restores King Tribhuvan; and the Sakuragichō train fire in Yokohama, Japan kills more than 100 passengers. (en)
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