1957 - January. 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) 1957 - February. 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 rege ...

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1957 - January. January 6 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer January 7 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist January 7 - Katie Couric, American television host January 7 - Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer January 11 - Robert Earl Keen, American musician and singer January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexican actor and director January 19 - Katey Sagal, American actress, singer, and writer January 22 - Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco January 30 - Payne Stewart, A ...

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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1957 - Events. January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany 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 ...

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January January 23 – Nord 1500-02 Griffon II February February 17 - Bell X-14 March March 28 - Canadair Argus May May 16 - Saunders-Roe SR.53 July July 4 - Ilyushin Il-18 July 9 - Aviation Traders Accountant November November 6 - Fairey Rotodyne December< ...

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1957 in aviation - January. January 18 - Three Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses make the world's first round the world, non-stop flight by turbojet-powered aircraft. The flight is completed in 45 hours 19 minutes, with an average speed of 534 mph (859 km/h) 1957 in aviation - March. March 4-15 - a US Navy airship sets a duration record for a non-rigid airship, traveling 9,448 miles (15,205 km) in 264 hours 12 minutes March 11 - a Lockheed Super Constella ...

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See also: 1956 in television, other events of 1957, 1958 in television and the list of 'years in television'. 1957 in television - Events. January 6 - Elvis Presley makes final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's The Tonight Show. March 31 - Cinderella, starring 21-year-old Julie Andrews, and with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs in color on CBS. April 1 - British current affairs progr ...

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Robert Daniel Kennedy (August 18, 1920 - April 7, 2005) was a right fielder/third baseman, manager and executive in Major League Baseball. From 1939-1957, Kennedy played for the Chicago White Sox (1939-42, 1946-48, 1955-56, 1957), Cleveland Indians (1948-54), Baltimore Orioles (1954-55), Detroit Tigers (1956) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1957). He batted and threw right-handed. After his playing career, Kennedy managed the Chicago Cubs (1963-65) and Oakland Athletics (1968). His son, former major league catcher Terry Kennedy, ...

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Vernon Wallace Thomson (November 5, 1905 – April 2, 1988) was Governor of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1959. Vernon Thomson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He was a lawyer and a Republican. He was mayor of Richland Center from 1944 to 1951 and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1935 to 1951. He was attorney general of Wisconsin from 1951 to 1957. In 1956, he was elected governor of Wisconsin defeating William Proxmire; he was defeated for reelection as governor in 1958 by Gaylord Nelson. In 1961, he was elected to the U ...

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"All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts (pop, country and r&b), staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27. In the U.S., it is regarded as the top song of 1957. It is also the name of a Broadway musical featuring the songs of Elvis Presley, based on the plot of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Other related archives1957, Broadway musical, Elvis Presley, Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare<

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Boris Williams (born April 24, 1957 in Versailles, France) is an English musician best known for his work with The Cure (1984-1994). Boris first joined the band in 1984, replacing Andy Anderson on drums. During his tenure, Boris helped The Cure reached their critical and commercial peak recording such studio albums as The Head on the Door, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration, and Wish (album). He also appeared on the live albums Entreat, Paris (Cure live album), and Show (Cure live album) as well as t ...

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Arnold van Gennep was born 23 April 1873 at Ludwigsburg in Germany and died in 1957 at Bourg-la-Reine in France. He was an ethnographer and folklorist known mostly for his work regarding rites of passage and his significant works in modern French folklore. He is recognised as the founder of the academic studies of folklore in France. His work on rites of passage and his theory of 3 phases (preliminary, liminaire, postliminaire) was pursued and expanded by Victor Turner. Other

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Yellow Claw was an espionage comic book of the 1950s that featured art by industry legends Jack Kirby and Joe Maneely, and introduced characters used a decade later by writer-artist Jim Steranko in his landmark Marvel Comics feature "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.". Created by EC Comics great Al Feldstein and artist Maneely for Atlas Comics, the 1950s predecessor of Marvel, the four-issue (Oct. 1956 - April 1957) series chronicled the adventures of a Chinese-American FBI agent, Jimmy Woo, and his battles against a "yel ...

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Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (Japanese:カシオ計算機株式会社 Kashio Keisanki Kabushikigaisha) TYO: 6952 is an electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. Casio is best known for their calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras and watches. In 1957 Casio released the world's first entirely electronic compact calculator. Casio - History. Casio was established in April 1946 by Tadao Kashio (樫尾 和雄 Kashio Tadao ...

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Afrika Bambaataa (born April 10 or October 4, 1957 or 1960, though his birthdate is hotly debated; he himself refuses to comment on his age) is a DJ and community leader from the South Bronx, who in the late 1970s, was instrumental in the early development of hip hop. Afrika Bambaataa's birthname has been mistakenly listed as Kevin Donovan; however, Kevin Donovan was actually another man and leader of the Harlem Underground Band. During Bambaataa's early years, he was a founding member of the Bronxdale Projects-area stre ...

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Coretta Scott King (born April 27, 1927 near Marion, Alabama) is the widow of the slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. and a noted community leader in her own right. The Kings were married on June 18, 1953. The wedding ceremony took place in Scott's parents' house in Marion and was performed by King's father. King and Scott had four children: Yolanda Denise King (November 17, 1955, Montgomery, Alabama) Martin Luther King III (October 23, 1957, Montgomery, Alabama) Dexter Scott King (January 30, 1961, Atlanta, Georgia) Bernice ...

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Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892–October 19, 1957) was an Australian archaeologist, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory. He is also credited with coining the terms "Neolithic Revolution" and "Urban Revolution". He was one of the great archaeological synthesizers attempting to place his discoveries inside a theory of prehistoric development on a wider European and world scale. Vere Gordon Child ...

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Aki Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957) is a Finnish script writer and film director. Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. He gained worldwide fame by producing the movie Leningrad Cowboys Go America. His style has been influenced a lot by such directors as Jean-Pierre Melville, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Robert Bresson, as he relies on low-key acting and simple cinematic storytelling to get his message(s) across. His movies have a unique downplayed ...

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1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1958 - Events. 1958 - January. January 1 - Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented. January 3 - The West Indies Federation is formed. January 4 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4, 1957). January 8 - 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship. January 13 - 9235 scientists publish a plea to ...

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