First general election in India
1951–1952 · Event
World's largest democratic exercise to date; Congress wins decisively.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1951
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1950s (1950)
- Pop music: the 1960s (1960)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)