1957

Years: 1954 1955 1956 - 1957 - 1958 1959 1960
Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1957 in art 1957 in aviation 1957 in film 1957 in literature 1957 in music 1957 in radio 1957 in science 1957 in sports 1957 in television

Table of contents

1 Events

1.1 January
1.2 March-July
1.3 August
1.4 September-October
1.5 November-December

2 Year in topic
3 Births

3.6 January-February
3.7 March-September
3.8 October-December

4 Deaths

4.9 January-August
4.10 September-December

5 Incumbents

5.11 Religious leaders

6 Awards/Prizes

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 Collier's 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 British 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 E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
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.
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 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
September 4 - Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
October 4 - launch of 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.

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 (she was kept alive for several days in space with a sophisticated life-support system).
November 7 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
November 16 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin (this was his last murder).
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 of 1957
IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.