1957
| 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 topic: Lists of leaders: | |
1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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1.1 Environmental change |
Events
Environmental change
- The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil
- The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China
- March 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
- November 13 - Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice
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.
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
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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 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
- 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
- April 12 - Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity
May
- 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 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 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
- 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
- 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.
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 (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 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 - 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
- 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.
Year in topic
- 1957 in film
- 1957 in literature
- 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 rail transport
- 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
- January 6 - Nancy Lopez, golfer
- January 7 - Nicholson Baker, novelist
- Katie Couric, television host
- Julian Solis, world champion boxer
- January 11 - Robert Earl Keen, musician, singer
- January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
- January 19 - Katey Sagal, actress, singer & writer
- January 22 - Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
- January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
- Earl Falconer, bassist
- January 30, Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
February
- 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 (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- James Ingram, singer
- February 18 - Vanna White, game show presenter
- February 19 - Falco, Austrian musician (d. 1998)
- February 27 - Viktor Markin, Soviet athlete
March
- March 10 - Osama bin Laden, terrorist
- March 12 - Steve Harris, bassist/leader of Iron Maiden
- March 20 - Spike Lee, film director, actor
- March 29 - Christophe Lambert, actor
- March 30 - Paul Reiser, actor
April
- April 4 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
- April 5 - Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
- April 8 - Henry Cluney, musician
- April 9 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish, golfer
- April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
May
- May 7 - Sinjin Smith, volleyball player
- May 10 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (d. 1979)
- May 22 - Gary Sweet, actor
- May 26 - Margaret Colin, actress
- May 27 - Siouxsie Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees
- May 28 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
- May 29 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
June
- June 2 - King Lizzard, Las VegasHard Rock entertainer
- 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)
July
- July 13 - Cameron Crowe, writer and film director
- July 26 - Nana Visitor, actress (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- July 29 - Nelli Kim, gymnast, five times Olympic Champion
August
- August 6 - Jim McGreevey, governor of New Jersey
- August 9 - Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, The Bonfire of the Vanities)
- August 11 - Richie Ramone, American musician, drummer with The Ramones
- August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
- August 27 - Bernhard Langer, German golfer
- August 28 - Daniel Stern, actor
September
- September 1 - Gloria Estefan, singer
- September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress
October
- October 14 - Kenny Neal, blues musician, guitarist
- October 26 - Bob Golic, American football player
November
- November 7 - Christopher Knight, actor (The Brady Bunch)
- November 15 - Kevin Eubanks, musician
- November 24 - Denise Crosby, actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
- November 30 - Colin Mochrie, Improv Comic
December
- December 8 - Phil Collen, singer/guitarist (Def Leppard)
- December 9 - Donny Osmond, singer
- December 10 - Michael Clarke Duncan, actor (Armageddon, The Green Mile)
- December 13 - Steve Buscemi, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, The Sopranos)
- December 13 - Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
- December 20 - Billy Bragg, singer
- December 21 - Tom Henke, baseball relief pitcher
- December 21 - Ray Romano, actor, comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond)
- December 30 - Matt Lauer, NBC newscaster
Unknown date
- Walter Moers - German comic artist and writer
- Eugene Spafford - American computer scientist
Deaths
January-March
- January 10 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
- January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American 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, American author (b. 1867)
- February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
- February 25 - George "Bugs" Moran, Chicago gangster
- March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
- March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
- March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
- March 25 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
- March 29 - Joyce Cary, author
April-June
- May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator
- May 9 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
- May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, artist
- May 16 - Eliot Ness, American F.B.I. agent
- May 31 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
- June 17 - Dorothy Richardson, English feminist writer (b. 1873)
- 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 in World War II (b. 1885)
October-December
- October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author (b. 1878)
- 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)
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