1957

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Years: 1954 1955 1956 - 1957 - 1958 1959 1960
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1957 in art 1957 in aviation 1957 in film 1957 in literature 1957 in music 1957 in radio 1957 in science 1957 in sports 1957 in television

Contents

1 Events

1.1 Undated
1.2 January
1.3 February
1.4 March-July
1.5 August
1.6 September-October
1.7 November-December

2 Year in topic

3 Births

3.1 January-February
3.2 March-September
3.3 October-December
3.4 Unknown date

4 Deaths

4.1 January-August
4.2 September-December

5 Religious leaders

6 Nobel Prizes

Events

Undated

The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China

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
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.

August

August 4 - Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record fifth world drivers championship, including his fourth consecutive championship (also a record); these two records would endure for nearly half a century.
August 31 - The Federation of Malaya, which does not include Singapore, gains independence from the United Kingdom. Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

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 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

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

Nobel Prizes

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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