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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1957


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Birthdays


Deaths
  • January 1 - Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.,
  • January 10 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer
  • January 11 - Sir Robert Garran, Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (b. 1867)
  • January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
  • January 16 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
  • January 16 - 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal
  • January 19 - József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912)
  • January 25 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
  • January 25 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
  • February 1 - Friedrich Paulus, German general (b. 1890)
  • February 2 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
  • February 5 - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
  • February 8 - Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor
  • February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
  • February 9 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
  • February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
  • February 12 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
  • February 18 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
  • February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
  • February 19 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
  • February 23 - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
  • February 25 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
  • March 7 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
  • March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
  • March 14 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
  • March 15 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
  • March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
  • March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
  • March 25 - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
  • March 26 - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
  • March 29 - Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
  • April 4 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
  • April 15 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
  • April 26 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
  • April 28 - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
  • May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
  • May 9 - Ezio Pinza, Italian bass (b. 1892)
  • May 12 - Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
  • May 12 - Erich von Stroheim, film director and actor (b. 1885)
  • May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
  • May 16 - Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
  • May 21 - Aleksandr Vertinsky, Russian singer (b. 1889)
  • May 31 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
  • June 12 - Jimmy Dorsey, American musician (b. 1904)
  • June 17 - Dorothy Richardson, English writer (b. 1873)
  • June 21 - Johannes Stark, German physicist
  • June 26 - Alfred Döblin, German writer (b. 1878)
  • July 3 - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
  • July 5 - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
  • July 8 - Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States (b. 1879)
  • July 15 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
  • July 15 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
  • July 24 - Sacha Guitry, French actor
  • July 28 - Edith Abbott, American social worker
  • August 4 - Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil (b. 1869)
  • August 5 - Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist
  • August 7 - Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
  • August 9 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
  • August 16 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist
  • August 19 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
  • August 19 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
  • August 21 - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888)
  • August 21 - Nels Stewart, professional ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • September 1 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)
  • September 16 - Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
  • September 20 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
  • September 21 - King Haakon VII of Norway, (b. 1872)
  • September 22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
  • September 28 - Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and musician(b. 1888)
  • October 10 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
  • October 23 - Christian Dior, French fashion designer (b. 1905)
  • October 25 - Albert Anastasia, Italian-born gangster (b. 1902)
  • October 25 - Lord Dunsany, Irish writer (b. 1878)
  • October 26 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896)
  • October 26 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883)
  • October 28 - Ernst Gräfenberg, German physician and scientist (b. 1881)
  • 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 20 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
  • November 21 - Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
  • 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 2 - Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (b. 1902)
  • 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)
  • December 26 - Charles Pathé, French film and recording industries pioneer (b. 1863)

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 8 - The Suez Canal in Egypt is reopened.
  • 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 11 - Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
  • 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 3 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
  • 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.


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