1957 - What happened in 1957 ?

January 1957

Thursday 03:

Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

Friday 04:

After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly magazine is published.

Saturday 05:

Major league baseballer Jackie Robinson retires.

Sunday 13:

Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

Tuesday 22:

The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

February 1957

Sunday 03:

Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).

Monday 04:

USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".

Sunday 17:

A fire at an elderly home in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.

Saturday 23:

The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.

March 1957

Sunday 03:

In Frankfurt. Germany, Corry Brokken wins the second Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing "Net als toen" (Like it used to be).

Friday 08:

Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.

Wednesday 13:

The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.

Monday 25:

The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).

Sunday 31:

Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elctions PDU and MDV form a government.

April 1957

Friday 05:

In India, Communists won the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad sworn in as the first chief minister.

May 1957

Friday 03:

Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.

Wednesday 15:

Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

June 1957

Sunday 09:

First ascent of Broad Peak (12th highest mountain).

Saturday 15:

Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.

Friday 21:

Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister

Monday 24:

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

Thursday 27:

Hurricane Audrey kills 500 people in Louisiana and Texas.

July 1957

Saturday 06:

John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles meet for the first time.

Thursday 11:

Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherites the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worlwide, after the passing away of Sir Sultam Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III

Tuesday 16:

United States Marine Major John Glenn flies a F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.

Saturday 20:

The Soviet Union closes Peter the Great Bay, which provides access to Vladivostok, to foreign ships.

Monday 29:

The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

August 1957

Thursday 01:

The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).

Monday 26:

a "super longdistance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to Tass Soviet News Agency.

Saturday 31:

The Federation of Malaya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

September 1957

Thursday 12:

NORAD begins operations.

Sunday 15:

West Germany holds its third parliamentary election. Konrad Adenauer remains chancellor.

Thursday 19:

Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300 000 sales of "Bambino".

Wednesday 25:

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops

Thursday 26:

Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on Broadway

October 1957

Tuesday 01:

First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.

Monday 07:

A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor, in northern England, causes the release of radioactive material, which is later blamed for 39 cancer deaths.

Thursday 10:

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

Monday 21:

The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.

Tuesday 29:

Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured as a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.

November 1957

Sunday 03:

Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space: a dog named Laika.

Monday 04:

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika on board, becoming the first country to launch a living creature into orbit. The capsule was not designed to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.

Wednesday 06:

Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France

Thursday 07:

Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

Saturday 16:

Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

December 1957

Friday 06:

A launchpad explosion thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite (Project Vanguard).