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 by topic:
Arts	Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology	Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries	Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other	Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming

1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January-February

January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany
January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch
January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine is published
January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed handled the ball in test match cricket
January 10 - Anthony Eden resigns - 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 captured it from Egypt in a battle 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 truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River - he drowns as a result.
February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria
February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union

March

Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence

Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence

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 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
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 the French army tortures Algerian prisoners
March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU

April-June

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 9 - Egypt reopens Suez Canal for all shipping
April 12 - United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self rule January 1, 1958
April 12 - Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity
May 2 - Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello
May 3 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
May 15 - Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years
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.
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-September

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 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 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 - 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-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 - 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 30 - Grenade attack against Indonesian president Sukarno in Cikini School in Jakarta. Six children killed, Sukarno survives unscathed.
December 1 - In Indonesia, Sukarno announces nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses
December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in Britain leaves 92 dead
December 5 - All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, the satelite blowing up on the launchpad.

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. [1]

Environmental change

The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil
The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China

Births

January-February

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 15 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexican actor and director
January 19 - Katey Sagal, American actress, singer, and writer
January 22 - Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player
January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
January 30 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
February 4 - Don Davis, American composer
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, English railwayman
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

March-May

March 5 - Ray Suarez, American journalist
March 10 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
March 12 - Steve Harris, English bassist (Iron Maiden)
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 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 10 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
May 22 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
May 26 - Margaret Colin, American actress
May 27 - Siouxsie Sioux, English singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
May 28 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
May 29 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician

June-October

June 2 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
June 3 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
June 8 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist
June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
June 12 - Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer
June 19 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
July 13 - Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director
June 13 - Frances McDormand, American actress
July 23 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
July 26 - Nana Visitor, American actress
July 29 - Nelli Kim, Russian gymnast
August 6 - Jim McGreevey, Governor of New Jersey
August 7 - Mark Bagley, American comic book artist
August 9 - Melanie Griffith, American actress
August 11 - Richie Ramone, American drummer (The Ramones)
August 18 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
August 18 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
August 27 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
August 28 - Daniel Stern, American actor
September 1 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born singer
September 12 - Rachel Ward, English actress
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

November-December

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 30 - Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born comedian
December 8 - Phil Collen, English 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, English singer
December 20 - Joyce Hyser, American actress
December 21 - Tom Henke, baseball player
December 21 - Ray Romano, American actor and comedian
December 30 - Matt Lauer, American newscaster

Unknown date

Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer
Eugene Spafford, American computer scientist

Deaths

January-March

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 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 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
February 25 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
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, Irish author (b. 1888)

April-June

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 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)

July-September

July 4 - Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1933)
July 24 - Sacha Guitry, Russian-born French playright, actor, and director (b. 1885)
July 28 - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
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 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-December

October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878)
October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
November 4 - Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
November 4 - Laika, Russian Samoyed dog, first to orbit the earth
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 21 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)

Nobel Prizes

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