1957
1957 (
MCMLVII) was a
common year starting on Tuesday of the
Gregorian calendar.
January
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January 1 -
Saarland joins
West Germany.
IRA attack on
Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of
Seán South and
Fergal O'Hanlon.
*
January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles
stock exchanges merge to form
Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
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January 3 -
Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric
watch.
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January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of
Collier's Weekly magazine is published.
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January 5 -
Russell Endean becomes the first
batsman to be
dismissed handled the ball in
test match cricket.
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January 9 -
Anthony Eden resigns.
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January 10 -
Harold Macmillan becomes the
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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January 11 - The
African Convention is founded in
Dakar.
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January 13 -
Wham-O Company produces the first
Frisbee.
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January 16 - The
Cavern Club opens in
Liverpool.
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January 20 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated for second term as
President of the United States.
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January 22 -
Israel withdraws from the
Sinai Peninsula (they captured it from
Egypt in a battle on
October 29,
1956).
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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 truck driver
Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the
Alabama River - he drowns as a result.
*
January 31 - Three students on a junior high school playground in
Pacoima, California are among the eight persons killed following the mid-air collision between a
Douglas DC-7 airliner and a
Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet in the skies above the
San Fernando Valley section of
Los Angeles.
February
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February 4 -
France prohibits UN involvement in
Algeria.
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February 15 -
Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of
Soviet Union.
March
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March 1 -
U Nu becomes Prime Minister of
Burma.
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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).
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March 6 -
United Kingdom colonies
Gold Coast and
British Togoland become the independent Republic of
Ghana.
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March 7 -
Congress approves the
Eisenhower Doctrine.
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March 8 -
Egypt re-opens the
Suez Canal.
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March 10 - Floodgates of
The Dalles Dam are closed inundating
Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the
Columbia River in
Oregon.
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March 13 - The
FBI arrests
Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with
bribery*
March 14 - President
Sukarno declares
martial law in
Indonesia.
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March 20 - French newspaper
L'Express reveals that the French army tortures
Algerian prisoners.
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March 25 -
Treaty of Rome (patto di
Roma) establishes the
European Economic Community (EEC); see
EU.
April
*
April 1 - The first new
conscripts join the
Bundeswehr.
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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 9 -
Egypt reopens
Suez Canal for all shipping.
*
April 12 -
United Kingdom announces that
Singapore will gain self rule
January 1 1958.
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April 12 -
Allen Ginsberg's poem
Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of
obscenity.
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April 17 -
Brecon Beacons is designated a national park.
May
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May 2 -
Vincent Gigante fails to
assassinate mafioso Frank Costello. Senator
Joseph McCarthy dies.
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May 3 -
Walter O'Malley, the owner of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from
Brooklyn, New York, to
Los Angeles, California.
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May 15 -
Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an
English record international career of almost 23 years.
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May 16 -
Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new
Secretary General of NATO.
June
*
June 9 - First ascent of
Broad Peak.
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June 15 -
Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
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June 21 -
John Diefenbaker becomes
Canada's thirteenth
prime minister.
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June 25 -
United Church of Christ formed in
Cleveland, Ohio by merger of
Congregational Christian Churches and the
Evangelical and Reformed Church.
*
June 27 -
Hurricane Audrey demolishes
Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people.
July
* 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.
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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 21 -
Eisenhower announces a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing.
*
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
*
September 4 -
American Civil Rights Movement:
Little Rock Crisis -
Orville Faubus, governor of
Arkansas, calls out the
US National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in
Central High School in
Little Rock.
*
September 4 - The
Ford Motor Company introduces the
Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day."
*
September 21 -
Olav V becomes
King of Norway on the death of
Haakon VII.
October
*
October 4 -
Sputnik program: The
Soviet Union launches
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.
*
October 27 -
Celal Bayar re-elected
president of Turkey.
November
*
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.
*
November 6 -
Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and
Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.
*
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.
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November 14 -
Apalachin Meeting - The leaders of the American
Mafia meet at a convention in
Apalachin, New York at the house of
Joseph Barbara. It is broken up by a curious patrolman.
*
November 15 - Plane crash in the
Isle of Wight leaves 43 dead.
*
November 16 -
Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of
Plainfield, Wisconsin.
*
November 25 -
President Eisenhower has a
stroke.
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November 30 -
Grenade attack against
Indonesian president
Sukarno in
Cikini School in
Jakarta. Six children are killed, Sukarno survives unscathed.
December
*
December 1 - In
Indonesia,
Sukarno announces
nationalization of 246
Dutch businesses.
*
December 4 -
Lewisham train disaster in
UK leaves 92 dead.
*
December 5 - All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from
Indonesia.
*
December 6 - First
U.S. attempt to launch a
satellite fails, the satellite blowing up on the
launch pad.
Undated
*
Consumers' Association founded (
UK).
*
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.
*
Citroën stops production of its
Traction Avant motor car (production started in
1934).
* The Piña Colada was invented by Ramon Marrero, a bartender at Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton. [
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Environmental change
* The
Africanized bee is accidentally released in
Brazil.
* The
Asian Flu pandemic begins in
China.
January
*
January 3 -
Frances Edmonds, English writer and broadcaster
*
January 6 -
Nancy Lopez, American golfer
*
January 7 -
Nicholson Baker, American novelist
*
January 7 -
Katie Couric, American television host
*
January 7 -
Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
*
January 11 -
Robert Earl Keen, American musician and singer
*
January 12 -
John Lasseter, American director, writer, and animator and Founder of
Pixar*
January 15 -
Mario Van Peebles, Afro-American-German actor and director
*
January 15 -
Patrick Dixon, British business guru and author of
Futurewise*
January 19 -
Katey Sagal, American actress, singer, and writer
*
January 22 -
Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player
*
January 23 -
Princess Caroline of Monaco*
January 24 -
Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
*
January 29 -
Grazyna Miller, Polish poetess
*
January 30 -
Payne Stewart, American golfer (d.
1999)
February
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February 2 - Michael Massarik, American motion picture producer
*
February 4 -
Don Davis, American composer
*
February 4 -
Harry G. Pellegrin, American musician and novelist
*
February 5 -
Jackie Woodburne, Australian TV actress
*
February 6 -
Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedian
*
February 6 -
Robert Townsend, American comedian, actor, director, and producer
*
February 8 -
Cindy Wilson, American singer (
The B-52's)
*
February 9 -
John Axon GC, British railwayman
*
February 9 -
Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer & manager
*
February 16 -
LeVar Burton, American actor
*
February 16 -
James Ingram, American singer
*
February 18 -
Vanna White, American game show presenter
*
February 19 -
Falco, Austrian musician (d.
1998)
*
February 27 -
Viktor Markin, Russian athlete
*
February 28 -
Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer
March
*
March 5 -
Ray Suarez, American journalist
*
March 10 -
Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
*
March 12 -
Steve Harris, British bassist (
Iron Maiden)
*
March 17 -
Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
*
March 20 -
Spike Lee, American film director and actor
*
March 29 -
Christophe Lambert, American-born actor
*
March 30 -
Paul Reiser, American actor
*
March 31 -
Marc McClure, American actor
April
*
April 4 -
Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
*
April 4 -
Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese television performer and musician (
Rats & Star)
*
April 5 -
Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
*
April 8 -
Henry Cluney, Irish musician
*
April 9 -
Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
*
April 29 -
Daniel Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish actor
May
*
May 3 -
William Clay Ford, Jr., American automobile executive
*
May 10 -
Sid Vicious, English bassist (
Sex Pistols) (d.
1979)
*
May 21 -
Judge Reinhold, American actor
*
May 22 -
Gary Sweet, Australian actor
*
May 26 -
Margaret Colin, American actress
*
May 27 -
Siouxsie Sioux, British singer (
Siouxsie and the Banshees)
*
May 28 -
Kirk Gibson, baseball player
*
May 29 -
Jeb Hensarling, American politician
June
*
June 1 -
Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
*
June 2 -
King Lizzard, American entertainer
*
June 3 -
Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
*
June 8 -
Scott Adams, American cartoonist
*
June 10 -
Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese one class authorized architect and builder
*
June 11 -
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
*
June 12 -
Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer
*
June 19 -
Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d.
2003)
*
June 23 -
Frances McDormand, American actress
July
*
July 2 -
Bret Hart, Canadian wrestler of the WWE and WCW
*
July 3 -
Laura Branigan, American singer (d.
2004)
*
July 11 -
Peter Murphy, British singer (
Bauhaus)
*
July 13 -
Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director
*
July 17 -
Fern Britton, British television presenter
*
July 23 -
Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d.
2004)
*
July 26 -
Nana Visitor, American actress
*
July 27 -
Bill Engvall, American comedian
*
July 29 -
Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
August
*
August 6 -
Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
*
August 7 -
Mark Bagley, American comic book artist
* August 7 -
Alexander Dityatin, Soviet gymnast
*
August 9 -
Melanie Griffith, American actress
*
August 11 -
Richie Ramone, American drummer (
The Ramones)
*
August 17 -
Robin Cousins, British figure skater
*
August 18 -
Carole Bouquet, French actress
* August 18 -
Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
*
August 22 -
Steve Davis, British snooker player
*
August 24 -
Stephen Fry, British comedian, author, and actor
*
August 27 -
Bernhard Langer, German golfer
*
August 28 -
Daniel Stern, American actor
*
August 11 -
Cheryl Roach (executive secretary to W. Wenzel CEO SPH Sleep)
September
*
September 1 -
Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born singer
*
September 12 -
Rachel Ward, British actress
*
September 16 -
David McCreery, Northern Irish footballer
October
*
October 4 -
Alexander Tkachev, Soviet gymnast
*
October 11 -
Dawn French, British comedian
*
October 14 -
Kenny Neal, American guitarist
*
October 21 -
Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
*
October 26 -
Bob Golic, American football player
*
October 27 -
Jeff East, American actor
*
October 31 -
Robert Pollard, American musician
November
*
November 6 -
Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive
*
November 7 -
Christopher Knight, American actor
*
November 15 -
Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
*
November 24 -
Denise Crosby, American actress
*
November 27 -
Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver
*
November 30 -
Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born comedian
December
*
December 6 -
Thomas Brinkman, American politician
*
December 8 -
Phil Collen, British singer and guitarist (
Def Leppard)
*
December 9 -
Donny Osmond, American singer
*
December 10 -
Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
*
December 13 -
Steve Buscemi, American actor
* December 13 -
Morris Day, American musician (
The Time (Band))
* December 13 -
Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
*
December 20 -
Billy Bragg, British singer
* December 20 -
Joyce Hyser, American actress
*
December 20 -
Anna Vissi, Greek singer
*
December 21 -
Tom Henke, baseball player
* December 21 -
Ray Romano, American actor and comedian
*
December 24 -
Hamid Karzai, Afghan president
*
December 30 -
Matt Lauer, American newscaster
Unknown date
*
Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer
*
Eugene Spafford, American computer scientist
January
*
January 10 -
Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1889)
*
January 14 -
Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b.
1899)
*
January 16 -
Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b.
1867)
February
*
February 8 -
Walther Bothe, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
*
February 8 -
John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician (b.
1903)
*
February 9 -
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and regent (b.
1868)
*
February 9 -
John Axon, British railwayman and hero
*
February 10 -
Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b.
1867)
*
February 16 -
Józef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b.
1876)
*
February 18 -
Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b.
1877)
*
February 25 -
George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b.
1893)
March
*
March 11 - Admiral
Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b.
1888)
*
March 16 -
Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b.
1876)
*
March 17 -
Ramon Magsaysay,
President of the Philippines (b.
1907)
*
March 25 -
Max Ophüls, German film director and writer (b.
1902)
*
March 29 -
Joyce Cary, Northern Irish author (b.
1888)
April-May
*
April 15 -
Pedro Infante, Mexican Actor & Singer (b.
1917)
*
May 2 -
Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b.
1908)
*
May 9 -
Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b.
1892)
*
May 14 -
Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b.
1884)
*
May 16 -
Eliot Ness, American Federal Bureau of Investigation agent (b.
1903)
*
May 31 -
Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b.
1878)
June
*
June 17 -
Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b.
1873)
*
June 21 -
Johannes Stark, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1874)
*
June 26 -
Alfred Döblin, German writer (b.
1878)
*
June 27 -
Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (b.
1909)
*
June 27 -
Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b.
1924)
July
*
July 4 -
Judy Tyler, American actress (b.
1933)
*
July 24 -
Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French playwright, actor, and director (b.
1885)
*
July 28 -
Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b.
1876)
August
*
August 5 -
Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist,
Nobel Prize larueate (b.
1877)
*
August 7 -
Oliver Hardy, American actor (b.
1892)
*
August 16 -
Irving Langmuir, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1881)
*
August 19 -
David Bomberg, English painter (b.
1890)
September
*
September 1 -
Dennis Brain, English French horn player (b.
1921)
*
September 20 -
Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b.
1865)
*
September 21 -
Haakon VII of Norway (b.
1872)
*
September 22 -
Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b.
1885)
October
*
October 25 -
Albert Anastasia, American gangster (b.
1902)
*
October 25 -
Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (b.
1878)
*
October 26 -
Gerty Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1896)
*
October 29 -
Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b.
1885)
*
October 29 (presumably) -
Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b.
1933)
November
*
November 4 -
William Haywood, British Architect (b.
1876)
*
November 4 -
Shoghi Effendi, Bahá'í leader (b.
1897)
*
November 24 -
Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b.
1886)
*
November 29 -
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b.
1897)
*
November 30 -
Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b.
1890)
December
*
December 21 -
Eric Coates, English composer (b.
1886)
*
Physics -
Chen Ning Yang,
Tsung-Dao Lee*
Chemistry-
Lord Alexander R. Todd*
Physiology or Medicine -
Daniel Bovet*
Literature -
Albert Camus*
Peace -
Lester Bowles Pearson
