October 26 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
October 26 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
October 29 - Louis B. Mayer, American film producer (b. 1885)
October 29 - Rosemarie Nitribitt, German call girl (b. 1933)
October 30 - Fred Beebe, baseball player (b. 1880)
November 3 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
November 4 - Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
November 9 - Peter O'Connor, Irish athlete (b. 1872)
November 21 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
November 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897)
December 11 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
December 17 - Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (b. 1893)
December 21 - Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886)
December 24 - Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
Events
January 1 - George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
January 1 - An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
January 2 - The San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge.
January 3 - The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
January 11 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
January 11 - Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
January 22 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, was arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and was charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
January 31 - Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
February 1 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
February 2 - Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
February 3 - Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
February 4 - The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
February 16 - The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00pm and 7.00pm was abolished in the United Kingdom.
February 17 - A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
February 18 - Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan rebel leader is executed by the British colonial government.
February 23 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
March 4 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
March 6 - Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula.
March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
March 8 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
March 9 - The magnitude 8.6 1957 Andreanof Islands Earthquake and tsunami occurs.
March 13 - Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
March 17 - A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
March 25 - The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
March 31 - Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
April 5 - In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
April 6 - Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
April 9 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
April 10 - The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
April 11 - Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
April 15 - White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
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 - At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
May 27 - Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
June 9 - First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).
June 21 - Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
June 22 - The Soviet Union launches R-12 missile for the first time (in Kapustin Yar).
June 24 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States.
June 27 - Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.
July 1 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
July 6 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet at St. Peter's Church garden fete in Liverpool, England.
July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
July 26 - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
July 28 - Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
August 1 - The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
August 5 - American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
August 26 - The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM
August 27 - The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
August 31 - The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis
September 4 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
September 5 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
September 15 - West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.
September 17 - The North East Humanists group is founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
September 19 - First American underground nuclear bomb test.
September 24 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
September 24 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
September 25 - Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
September 29 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
October 1 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
October 3 - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
October 4 - Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
October 4 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
October 10 - U.S. 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 10 - The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
October 11 - Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
October 14 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne.
October 22 - Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
October 24 - The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
October 29 - Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
November 1 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
November 2 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
November 7 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
November 8 - Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
November 14 - The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
December 5 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
December 6 - Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
December 16 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
December 17 - The United States successfully launched the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
