1957 - What happened in 1957 ?

January 1957

Wednesday 02:

San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange and Los Angeles Oil Exchange merge.

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.

Thursday 10:

Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

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).

Wednesday 06:

Israel withdraws its troops from the Sinai Peninsula

Friday 08:

Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal.

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

Monday 01:

The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).

Saturday 06:

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

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

Wednesday 04:

The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.

Thursday 12:

NORAD begins operations.

Sunday 15:

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

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.

Tuesday 08:

Baseball: Walter O'Malley announces that the Dodgers are going to move from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, California

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.

Tuesday 22:

Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.

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).