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Events
Undated
The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China
Consumers' Association founded (UK)
January
January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch
January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published
January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed handled the ball in test match cricket
January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom
January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee
January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool
January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956)
January 22 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
January 23 - Ku Klux Klan members force a truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into an Alabama River - he drowns.
February
February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria
March-July
March 1 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma
March 1 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
March 1 - Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest)
March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana
March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal
March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery
March 14 - President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia
March 20 - French newspaper L'Express reveals that French army tortures Algerian prisoners
March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU
April 1 - The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr
April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala
April 12 - United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self rule January 1 1958
May 16 - Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new secretary-general of NATO.
June 9 - First ascent of Broad Peak
June 15 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
July - International Geophysical Year begins
July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record
July 25 - Tunisia becomes a republic
July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
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September-October
September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock
September 4 - Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel
October 4 - launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
October 9 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
October 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant
October 11 - Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK, opened
October 23 - Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni
October 25 - Assassination of a Mafia boss Albert Anastasia in a barber shop in Park Sheraton Hotel
November-December
November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
November 3 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika (she was kept alive for several days in space with a sophisticated life-support system)
November 7 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters
November 13 - Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice
November 14 - Apalachian Conference - At least 60 Mafiosi meet in a convention in Apalachin, New York at the house of Joseph Barbara. FBI intrudes and many of the mobsters try to escape
November 15 - Plane crash in the Isle of Wight - 43 dead
November 16 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin (this was his last murder)
November 30 - Grenade attack against Indonesian president Sukarno in Cikini School in Jakarta. Six children killed, Sukarno survives unscathed
December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in Britain - 92 dead
December 5 - All Dutch nationals expelled from Indonesia
December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, blowing up on the launchpad
Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
Civil Rights Commission established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957
IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
Year in topic
1957 in film
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Peyton Place
1957 in literature
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
1957 in music
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl," backed with "Dancin' Wild," hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts.
1957 in rail transport
1957 in sports
July 6 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1957 in television
Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's Tonight Show
Births
January-February
January 6 - Nancy Lopez, golfer
January 7 - Nicholson Baker, novelist
January 7 - Katie Couric, television host
January 7 - Julian Solis, world champion boxer
January 11 - Robert Earl Keen, musician, singer
January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
January 19 - Katey Sagal, actress, singer & writer
January 22 - Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
January 23 - Earl Falconer, bassist
January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
February 6 - Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian
February 6 - Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, director, producer
February 8 - Cindy Wilson, singer, of The B-52's
February 16 - LeVar Burton, actor (Reading Rainbow, )
February 16 - James Ingram, singer
February 18 - Vanna White, game show presenter
February 19 - Falco, singer (d. 1998)
February 27 - Viktor Markin, Soviet athlete
March-September
March 10 - Osama bin Laden, terrorist
March 12 - Steve Harris, bassist/leader of Iron Maiden
March 20 - Spike Lee, film director, actor
March 29 - Christophe Lambert, actor
March 30 - Paul Reiser, actor
April 4 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
April 5 - Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
April 9 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
May 7 - Sinjin Smith, volleyball player
May 10 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (d. 1979)
May 22 - Gary Sweet, actor
May 26 - Margaret Colin, actress
May 27 - Siouxsie Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees
May 28 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
May 29 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
June 8 - Scott Adams, cartoonist, creator of Dilbert
June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
June 12 - Javed Miandad, cricketer
June 19 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician and minister of foreign affairs (d. 2003)
July 13 - Cameron Crowe, writer and film director
July 26 - Nana Visitor, actress ()
August 9 - Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, The Bonfire of the Vanities)
August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
August 27 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
August 28 - Daniel Stern, actor
September 1 - Gloria Estefan, singer
September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress
October-December
October 14 - Kenny Neal, blues musician, guitarist
October 26 - Bob Golic, American football player
November 7 - Christopher Knight, actor (The Brady Bunch)
November 15 - Kevin Eubanks, musician
November 24 - Denise Crosby, actress ()
December 8 - Phil Collen, singer/guitarist (Def Leppard)
December 9 - Donny Osmond, singer
December 10 - Michael Clarke Duncan, actor (Armageddon, The Green Mile)
December 13 - Steve Buscemi, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, The Sopranos)
December 13 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
December 20 - Billy Bragg, singer
December 21 - Tom Henke, baseball relief pitcher
December 21 - Ray Romano, actor, comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)
December 30 - Matt Lauer, NBC newscaster
Unknown date
Walter Moers - German comic artist and writer
Eugene Spafford - American computer scientist
Deaths
January-August
January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor (b. 1899)
January 16 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1903)
February 9 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868)
February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (b. 1867)
February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
February 25 - George "Bugs" Moran, Chicago gangster
March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer
March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
March 25 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
March 29 - Joyce Cary, author
May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, US senator
May 9 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, artist
May 16 - Eliot Ness, federal agent
May 31 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
June 27 - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
July 4 – Judy Tyler, actress
July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French playright, actor and director
July 28 - Edith Abbott, social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American actor
August 19 - David Bomberg, painter
September-December
September 1 - Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b. 1921)
September 20 - Jean Sibelius, composer
September 21 - Haakon VII of Norway
September 22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral in World War II
October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author
November 4 - Laika, female Samoyed Terrier dog from Moscow, first living passenger to enter orbit.
November 24 - Diego Rivera, painter
November 30 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Religious leaders
Archbishop of Canterbury - Geoffrey Francis Fisher
Coptic Pope - see vacant
Dalai Lama - Tenzin Gyatso
Patriarch of Constantinople - Athenagoras
Patriarch of Moscow - Patriarch Alexius I
Pope - Pope Pius XII
President of the LDS Church - David O. McKay
Physics - Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee
Chemistry- Lord Alexander R. Todd
Medicine - Daniel Bovet
Literature - Albert Camus
Peace - Lester Bowles Pearson
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