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1957 - Events

1957 - January

• 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 be dismissed handled the ball in test match cricket
• January 10 - Anthony Eden resigns - Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• January 11 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
• 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 captured it from Egypt in a battle 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.
• January 23 - Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River - he drowns as a result.

1957 - February

• February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria
• February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union

1957 - March

• March 1 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma
• March 1 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
• March 1 - Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest)
• March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana
• March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal
• March 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
• March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery
• March 14 - President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia
• March 20 - French newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners
• March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU

1957 - April

• April 1 - The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr
• April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala
• April 9 - Egypt reopens Suez Canal for all shipping
• April 12 - United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self rule January 1, 1958
• April 12 - Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity
• April 17 Brecon Beacons is designated a national park

1957 - May

• May 2 - Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello
• May 2 - Senator Joseph McCarthy of the Red Scare dies.
• 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 - Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years
• May 16 - Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new Secretary General of NATO.

1957 - June

• June 9 - First ascent of Broad Peak
• June 15 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
• June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
• June 25 - United Church of Christ formed in Cleveland, Ohio by merger of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
• June 27 - Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people.

1957 - July

• July - International Geophysical Year begins.
• July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
• July 25 - Tunisia becomes a republic.
• July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

1957 - August

• August 4 - Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record fifth world drivers championship, including his fourth consecutive championship (also a record); these two records would endure for nearly half a century.
• August 31 - The Federation of Malaya, which does not include Singapore, gains independence from the United Kingdom. Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

1957 - September

• September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the US National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
• September 4 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day."
• September 21 - Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of Haakon VII.

1957 - October

• October 4 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
• October 9 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
• October 10 - US 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 11 - Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK, opened.
• October 23 - Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni.
• October 25 - Assassination of a Mafia boss Albert Anastasia in a barber shop in Park Sheraton Hotel.
• October 27 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey

1957 - November

• November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
• November 3 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika.
• November 6 - Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley keeps getting bigger and bigger
• November 7 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
• November 13 - Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice
• November 14 - Apalachin Meeting - The leaders of the American Mafia meet at a convention in Apalachin, New York at the house of Joseph Barbara. It is broken up by a curious patrolman.
• November 15 - Plane crash in the Isle of Wight leaves 43 dead.
• November 16 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin.
• November 30 - Grenade attack against Indonesian president Sukarno in Cikini School in Jakarta. Six children killed, Sukarno survives unscathed.

1957 - December

• December 1 - In Indonesia, Sukarno announces nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses
• December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in UK leaves 92 dead
• December 5 - All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
• December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, the satellite blowing up on the launch pad.

1957 - Undated

• Consumers' Association founded (UK)
• Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
• Civil Rights Commission established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957
• IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
• Citroën stops production of its Traction Avant motor car (production started in 1934).
• The Piña Colada was invented by Ramon Marrero, a bartender at Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton. [1]

1957 - Environmental change

• The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil
• The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China

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