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Years:
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1957 -
1958 1959 1960 1961 1962
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See also:
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
Events
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 ''Collier's'' magazine is published.
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.
March-July
March_6 - United_Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and 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_25 - Treaty_of_Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European_Economic_Community (EEC); see EU
April_5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI won the elections and E._M._S._Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
June_9 - First ascent of Broad_Peak
June_21 - John_Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
July - International_Geophysical_Year begins
July_16 - United_States_Marine Major John_Glenn flies a F8U supersonic jet from California to New_York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
July_29 - The International_Atomic_Energy_Agency is established.
August
August_31 - The Federation_of_Malaya 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
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.
November-December
November_1 - Michigan's Mackinac_Bridge opened.
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).
, the Gaither_Report calls for more American missiles and fallout_shelters.
November_16 - Serial_killer Edward_Gein murders Bernice Worden of Plainfield,_Wisconsin (this was his last murder).
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
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
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_15 - Mario_Van_Peebles, actor, director
January 15 - Julian_Sands, actor
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
February 16 - James_Ingram, singer
February_18 - Vanna_White, game_show presenter
February_19 - Falco, singer (d. 1998)
March-September
March_10 - Osama_bin_Laden, terrorist
_Iron_Maiden
March_20 - Spike_Lee, film director, actor
March_29 - Christopher_Lambert, actor
March_30 - Paul_Reiser, actor
April_4 - Aki_Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
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_26 - Margaret_Colin, actress
May_27 - Siouxsie_Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees
May_28 - Kirk_Gibson, baseball player
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)
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
November_7 - Christopher_Knight, actor, ''The_Brady_Bunch''
November_15 - Kevin_Eubanks, musician
December_9 - Donny_Osmond, singer
December_10 - Michael_Clarke_Duncan, actor
December_13 - Steve_Buscemi, actor
December_20 - Billy_Bragg, singer
December_21 - Tom_Henke, baseball relief_pitcher
December 21 - Ray_Romano, actor, comedian
December_30 - Matt_Lauer, NBC newscaster
:Walter_Moers - German comic artist and writer
Deaths
January-August
January_14 - Humphrey_Bogart, actor (b. 1899)
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
May_2 - Joseph_McCarthy, US senator
May_9 - Ezio_Pinza, opera singer
May_14 - Marie_Vassilieff, artist
May_16 - Eliot_Ness, federal agent
June_27 - Malcolm_Lowry, novelist (b. 1909)
July_24 - Sacha_Guitry, French playright, actor and director
August_7 - Oliver_Hardy, American actor
August_19 - David_Bomberg, painter
September-December
September_1 - Dennis_Brain, French horn player
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_24 - Diego_Rivera, painter
November_30 - Beniamino_Gigli, tenor
Joyce_Cary, author
Incumbents
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
Awards/Prizes
'''Winner of with Net Als Toen
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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