October 1957

Tuesday 01:

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

Friday 04:

Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

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.

Tuesday 08:

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

Wednesday 09:

Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.

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 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.