On-field assault during an American college football game of an African-American player by a white opposing player

Natural disaster in Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Liechtenstein

1951 major engagement of the First Indochina War

1951 Formula One season — Sports season

1951 Asian Games — first edition of the Asian Games

World Chess Championship 1951

1951 Cannes Film Festival — film festival edition

EuroBasket 1951 — 1951 edition of Eurobasket

1951 Mediterranean Games — 1st edition of the Mediterranean Games

8th Golden Globe Awards — 1951 film award ceremony, on the 28th of February in Los Angeles, California, United States of America, honoring achievements in 1950 filmmaking

1951 significant engagement in the First Indochina War