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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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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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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1957 in rail transport - January events. January 1 - The Chicago and North Western Railway leases the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway (the Omaha Road). January 12 - Operations of the Santa Fe Railroad's Super Chief and El Capitan passenger trains are combined during off-peak seasons. January 22 - Last day of steam locomotive op ...

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Aharon Rokeach (1877 - August 18, 1957) was the fourth rebbe of the Belz Hasidic dynasty from 1926 to 1957. Aharon inherited the mantle of leadership from his father, Yissachar Dov Rokeach (I), upon the latter's death in 1926. Aharon's rule as rebbe saw the devestation of the Belz community, along with many other Hasidic sects in Galicia and elsewhere in Poland during the Holocaust. Aharon, also known as the "Wonder Rebbe", was known for his piety and mysticism before World War II, and it was under his leadership that the movement was reborn after the war in ...

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Fences is a play by August Wilson; it was his second play to go to Broadway. It secured a Tony for James Earl Jones and won a Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1987 for the author. The play is set after the Korean War and before the Vietnam War, from 1957 to 1965. Like many other Wilson plays, the main character is a tragic black man. In Fences, his name is Troy Maxson. Other major characters include: Bono - Troy's best friend, and obvious "follower" in their friendship. Rose - Troy's wife and the mother ...

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Carole Bouquet (born 18 August 1957 in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France) is a French actress internationally famous for her role as Bond girl Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only, and a key role in Luis Bunuel's surrealist classic That Obscure Object of Desire, and the French import Too Beautiful For You. Bouquet is the widow of producer Jean-Pierre Rassam. They had a son, Dimitri Rassam. In 2003 Bouquet married French actor Gérard Depardieu, with whom she had worked several times.< ...

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Vernon Eulion Jr. Jordan (born August 15, 1935) is a American business executive. He has been dubbed a Washington "Power Broker" by many. Vernon graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1957. He later received his J.D. in 1960. In 1970 he became executive director of the United Negro College Fund and later president of the National Urban League between 1972 and 1981. In 1980 he was wounded by a sniper in Fort Wayne, Indiana and he later resigned from the National Urban League to take a position as leg ...

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Alappuzha is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala in India. It was formed as the district of Alleppey on August 17, 1957. The name of the district was officially changed to Alappuzha in 1990. Alappuzha is a widely known tourist destination. Alappuzha is well-known for its coir factories. Most of Kerala's coir industries are situated in and around Alappuzha. The district is also well-known for its communist traditions. It is home to the Punnapra Vayalar strikes against the British and also the revolt against feudal raj. Alappuzha is strongly connected by waterways to various other parts of Kerala, incl ...

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. (July 8, 1926 - August 24, 2004) was a psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model. Kübler-Ross was born in Zürich, Switzerland and graduated from the University of Zürich medical school in 1957. She moved to the United States in 1958 to work and continue her studies in New York. As she began her practice, she was appalled by the hospital treatment of patients who were dying. She beg ...

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Bernhard Langer (born August 27, 1957 in Anhausen near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany) is a German professional golfer. Bernhard Langer - Career outline. Langer turned professional in 1972 and has won many events in Europe and the United States, among them The Masters in 1985 and 1993. He was the inaugural World Number 1 when the Official World Golf Rankings were introduced in 1986, and he became a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001. He was non-playing captain of the victorious European Ryder Cup tea ...

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Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (born August 1, 1936 in Oran, Algeria) is a French fashion designer. Yves Saint-Laurent - Early career. Born to insurance-company manager Charles Saint-Laurent and his socialite wife, Lucienne Mathieu, members of a family from Alsace-Lorraine that settled in North Africa during the Franco-Prussian War, Saint Laurent left home at the age of 17 to work for the designer Christian Dior. Following the death of Dior in 1957, Saint-Laurent at the age of 21 was put in charge o ...

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Bryan "Butch" Vig (born August 2, 1957 in Viroqua, Wisconsin) is both a rock musician and record producer. Butch Vig first became famous in the music business in 1991 when he produced Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish. Before that he had produced lots of small punk rock bands such as Killdozer and The Other Kids. Currently Butch Vig is the drummer of the popular group Garbage, who have released the albums Garbage (1995), Version 2.0 (1998), Beautifulgarbage (2001) and Bleed Like Me (2005) plus a James Bo ...

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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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Cindy Lee Miller Sheehan (born July 10, 1957 in Bellflower, California) is an American anti-Iraq War activist who attracted international attention in August 2005 for her extended demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. She is sometimes referred to by the media as the "Peace Mom".[1][2] Cindy Sheehan - Death of her son. Sheehan is the mother of the late Specialist Casey Sheehan, U.S. Army, who first enlisted in May 2000. He re-enlisted in August 2003, at the age ...

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Eamon de Valera[1] (born Edward George de Valera, sometimes Gaelicised Éamon de Bhailéara; October 14, 1882 – August 29, 1975), was an Irish politician, best known as a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th Century, and the Republican ...

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