1957 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 - 1957 - 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962

Events:

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 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.
March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and 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 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU
April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI[?] won the elections and EMS Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
July - International Geophysical Year begins
October 4 - launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, blowing up on the launchpad
Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
Civil Rights Commission[?] established under the Civil Rights Act

Art, Culture & Fashion

1957 in film
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Peyton Place
1957 in literature
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
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 sports
- July 6 - Althea Gibson[?] wins the Wimbledon championships becoming thethe first black athlete to do so.
1957 in television
- Jack Paar[?] becomes the permanent host for NBC's Tonight Show

Births:

January 6 - Nancy Lopez[?], golfer
January 7 - Katie Couric[?], television host
January 15 - Mario Van Peebles[?], actor, director
January 15 - Julian Sands[?], actor
January 22 - Mike Bossy[?], ice hockey player
January 23 - Earl Falconer[?], bassist
January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco[?]
February 6 - Kathy Najimy[?], actress, comedian
February 6 - Robert Townsend[?], comedian, actor, director, producer
February 8 - Cindy Wilson[?], singer, of The B-52s[?]
March 10 - Osama Bin Laden, terrorist?[?]
February 16 - LeVar Burton, actor
February 16 - James Ingram[?], singer
February 18 - Vanna White[?], game show presenter
February 19 - Falco, singer (+ 1998)
March 10 - Osama bin Laden, terrorist
March 12 - Steve Harris[?], musician. See Iron Maiden.
March 20 - Spike Lee, film director, actor
March 29 - Christopher Lambert, actor
March 30 - Paul Reiser, actor
April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
May 7 - Sinjin Smith[?], volleyball player
May 10 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (+ 1979)
June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
September 1 - Gloria Estefan, singer
September 12 - Rachel Ward[?], actress
December 9 - Donny Osmond[?], singer
December 20 - Billy Bragg, singer
December 30 - Matt Lauer[?], NBC newscaster

Deaths:

January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician
February 9 - Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent
February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer
March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay[?], President of the Philippines[?]
March 25 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, US senator
May 9 - Ezio Pinza[?], opera singer
May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, artist
May 16 - Eliot Ness, federal agent
August 7 -Oliver Hardy, American actor
August 19 - David Bomberg, painter
September 1 - Dennis Brain, French horn player
September 20 - Jean Sibelius, composer
September 21 - Haakon VII of Norway
October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author.
November 24 - Diego Rivera, painter
November 30 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Joyce Cary[?], author
Malcolm Lowry, author

Awards/Prizes

Winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1957: Corry Brokken[?] with Net Als Toen

Nobel Prizes: