Editing 1951 (section)

===December===
* c. December – The [[Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies|Institute of War and Peace Studies]] is established by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] at [[Columbia University]] in New York (of which he is [[List of Presidents of Columbia University|President]]) with [[William T. R. Fox]] as first director.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/12/10/96225851.pdf |title=Columbia Founds War-Peace Study|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 10, 1951}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] – [[Lebanese University]] is founded in [[Lebanon]].
* [[December 6]] – A [[state of emergency]] is declared in [[Egypt]], due to increasing riots.
* [[December 13]] – A water storage tank collapses in [[Tucumcari, New Mexico]], United States, resulting in 4 deaths and 200 buildings destroyed.
* [[December 17]] – ''[[We Charge Genocide]]'', a petition describing [[genocide]] against [[African American]]s, is delivered to the United Nations.
* [[December 20]]
** [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I]] (EBR-1), the world's first (experimental) [[nuclear power plant]], opens in [[Idaho]], United States.
** A chartered [[Curtiss C-46 Commando]] crash-lands in [[Cobourg]], [[Ontario]] Canada; all on board survive.
** The [[World Meteorological Organization]] becomes a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 22]] – The [[Selangor Labour Party]] is founded in [[Selangor]], [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]].
* [[December 24]]
** [[Libya]] becomes independent from Italy; [[Idris of Libya|Idris I]] is proclaimed King.
** [[Gian Carlo Menotti]]'s 45-minute opera, ''[[Amahl and the Night Visitors]]'', premieres live on [[NBC]] in the United States, becoming the first opera written especially for television.
* [[December 31]] – The [[Marshall Plan]] expires, after distributing more than $13.3&nbsp;billion US in [[foreign aid]] to rebuild Europe.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/mars.html |title=Key Dates for the Marshall Plan |work=For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan |publisher=The Library of Congress |location=Washington, D.C. |date=2005-07-11 |access-date=2009-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091013025310/http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/mars.html |archive-date=October 13, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>