What are some mportant events that happened in 1957?

Answer 1

For a huge list, go here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957

Answer 2

Sputnik launched
Eisenhower begins second term
Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock to desegregate Central High school for the Little Rock 9
Humphrey Bogart dies
Dodgers moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles
McCartney and Lennon meet for the first time as teenagers
Sukarno repressive regime begins nationalizing businesses and expelling over 326,000 Dutch
1st Us satellite launching ends in a failure by explosion on launch pad
Eisenhower suffered a stroke

Answer 3

Chevrolet introduced the 1957 Chevrolet BelAir, commonly referred to as a "'57 Chevy'". A real popular beauty. Still loved by car guys (and gals).

Answer 4

Events

January
January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany. IRA attack on Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon.
January 1 - Legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that will lead to his death a little over two weeks later.
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 9 - Anthony Eden resigns.
January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
January 11 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
January 14 - Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer at age 57.
January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.
January 16 - Arturo Toscanini dies of a stroke at age 89.
January 20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower inaugurated for second term as President of the United States.
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.
January 26 - The Planetarium of the Park of Ibirapuera, which was the first Planetarium in the Southern Hemisphere, is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
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
February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria.
February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union.
February 16 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was abolished in the United Kingdom

March

Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independenceMarch 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 1 - Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is published.
March 3 - Net als toen by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, text by Willy van Hemert) wins Eurovision Song Contest 1957 for Netherlands
March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent nation of Ghana.
March 7 - Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine.
March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.
March 10 - Al-Qaeda Leader and known terrorist Osama Bin Laden was born
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
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.
April 17 - Tela Duncan is designated a national park.
April 17 - suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams found not guilty of murder at the Old Bailey.

May
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
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
July - International Geophysical Year begins.
July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the very first time, as teenagers, three years before forming the Beatles.
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 - Habib Bourguiba becomes the first president of Tunisia. 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 21 - Eisenhower announces a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing.
August 28 - Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) set the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.
August 31 - The Federation of Malaya gains the flying monkeys 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 Malaya.

September
September 1 - 175 die in Jamaica's worst railway disaster.
September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the US National Guard to prevent African-American 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 5 - The first edition of Jack Kerouac's On the Road went on sale.
September 9 - Catholic Memorial opened it's doors for the first time in Boston.
September 21 - Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of Haakon VII.
September 23 - Academy Award-winning The Three Faces of Eve is released.
September 24 - President Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine.

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 21 - 95 die as two trains collide in Turkey.
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 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's two peninsulas.
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 – Invention of the laser by Gordon Gould.
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 25 - President Eisenhower has a stroke.
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 rocket 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. [1]
SPUR is founded
In December of that year, the CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on television for the first time.
Foundation of the Confederation of African Football

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

Births
1957 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1957
MCMLVII
Ab urbe condita 2710
Armenian calendar 1406
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Bahá'í calendar 113 – 114
Buddhist calendar 2501
Chinese calendar 4593/4653-12-1
(丙申年十二月初一日)
— to —
4594/4654-11-11
(丁酉年十一月十一日)
Coptic calendar 1673 – 1674
Ethiopian calendar 1949 – 1950
Hebrew calendar 5717 – 5718
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 2012 – 2013
- Shaka Samvat 1879 – 1880
- Kali Yuga 5058 – 5059
Holocene calendar 11957
Iranian calendar 1335 – 1336
Islamic calendar 1376 – 1377
Japanese calendar Shōwa 32

(昭和32年)

- Imperial Year Kōki 2617
(皇紀2617年)
- Jōmon Era 11957
Julian calendar 2002
Korean calendar 4290
Thai solar calendar 2500
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January
January 1 - Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress
January 1 - Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
January 4 - Charles Allen, Television magnate
January 6 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
January 7 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
January 7 - Katie Couric, American television host
January 7 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
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
January 13 - Lorrie Moore, American writer
January 14 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexican-born actor and director
January 15 - Patrick Dixon, British business guru and author
January 22 - Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player
January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
January 24 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
January 27 - Janick Gers, British Guitarist (Iron Maiden)
January 29 - Grazyna Miller, Polish poet
January 30 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)

February
February 4 - Don Davis, American composer
February 4 - Harry G. Pellegrin, American musician and novelist
February 5 - Jackie Woodburne, Australian 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 - Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and 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 27 - Adrian Smith, British Guitarist (Iron Maiden)
February 28 - Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
February 28 - Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer

March
March 3 - Eric Walters, Canadian author
March 4 - Rick Mast, former American NASCAR driver
March 4 - Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
March 5 - Ray Suarez, American journalist
March 9 - Mark Mancina, American composer
March 9 - Faith Daniels, American journalist
March 9 - Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
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 18 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
March 20 - Spike Lee, American film director and actor
March 29 - Christopher Lambert, American-born actor
March 30 - Paul Reiser, American actor
March 31 - Marc McClure, American actor

April
April 1 - Denise Nickerson, American child actress
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 11 - Michael Card, American musician
April 14 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
April 18 - Genie (feral child), Susan Wiley, "Genie", American feral child
April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor

May
May 3 - William Clay Ford, Jr., American automobile executive
May 3 - Jo Brand, English comedian
May 10 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
May 21 - Judge Reinhold, American actor
May 21 - Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
May 23 - Jimmy McShane (aka. Baltimora) Northern Irish dancer (d. 1995)
May 22 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
May 26 - Margaret Colin, American actress
May 26 - Pontso S.M. Sekatle, Lesotho academic and politician
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 architect
June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
June 12 - Timothy Busfield, American actor
June 18 - Simon Wilson, English footballer
June 12 - Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer
June 15 - Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
June 19 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
June 19 - Maxwell Fraiser, rapper for Faithless, DJ
June 23 - Frances McDormand, American actress
June 27 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria

July
July 1 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
July 2 - Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
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 23 - Mark Gascoigne, New Zealand Architect
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 14 - Peter Costello, Australian Treasurer
August 17 - Robin Cousins, British figure skater
August 18 - Carole Bouquet, French actress
August 18 - Denis Leary, American comedian and actor
August 19 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-born poet
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 31 - Ingrid Washinawatok, Native American activist (d. 1999)

September
September 1 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban-born singer
September 8 - Ricardo Montaner, Argentine-born Venezulean singer
September 12 - Rachel Ward, British actress
September 16 - David McCreery, Irish footballer
September 19 - Chris Daniel, President of Torrid (retail chain president)
September 22 - Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor
September 30 - Fran Drescher, American actress

October
October 4 - Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
October 5 - Bernie Mac, stand up comedian and actor
October 7
Jayne Torvill, British ice skater
Michael W. Smith, American musician
October 11 - Dawn French, British comedian
October 14 - Kenny Neal, American guitarist
October 15 - Stacy Peralta, American director professional skateboarder, team surfer and entrepreneur
October 18 - Doug Isaacson, Alaskan politician
October 21 - Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 25 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
October 26 - Bob Golic, American football player
October 27 - Jeff East, American actor
October 30 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (d. 2007)
October 31 - Robert Pollard, American musician

November
November 5 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984)
November 6 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German business executive
November 7 - Christopher Knight, American actor
November 14 - Gregg Burge, African-American tap dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
November 15 - Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist
November 17 - Debbie Thrower, British TV News Presenter (BBC)
November 18 - Olivia Heussler, Swiss photojournalist
November 24 - Denise Crosby, American actress
November 27 - Kenny Acheson, Irish race car 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, President of Afghanistan
December 25 - Shane McGowan, Irish singer and songwriter (The Pogues)
December 28 - Martin Saban, 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 1 - Friedrich Paulus, German field marshall (b. 1890)
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 (b. 1900)
February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
February 16 - Józef Hofmann, Polish-born pianist and composer (b. 1876)
February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
February 25 - Bugs Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
March 11 - 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
April 4 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat
April 15 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and 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 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 - September
July 4 - Judy Tyler, American actress (b. 1933)
July 24 - Sacha Guitry, Russian-born playwright, 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 - 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)
November 4 - William Haywood, British architect (b. 1876)
November 4 - Shoghi Effendi, Lebanese 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 10 - Prem Rawat, known also as Maharaji
December 21 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
December 25 - Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian (b. 1877)

Nobel prizes
Physics - Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
Chemistry - Lord Alexander R. Todd
Physiology or Medicine - Daniel Bovet
Literature - Albert Camus
Peace - Lester Bowles Pearson

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