1957 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s

Years: 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 - 1957 - 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962

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 Colliers 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 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 EMS Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
July - International Geophysical Year begins
October 4 - launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
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

Art, Culture & Fashion

1957 in film
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Peyton Place
1957 in literature
- The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
1957 in music
- Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl," backed with "Dancin' Wild," hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts.
1957 in sports
- July 6 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships becoming thethe first black athlete to do so.
1957 in television
- Jack Paar becomes the permanent host for NBC's Tonight Show

Births:

January 6 - Nancy Lopez, golfer
January 7 - Katie Couric, television host
January 15 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
January 15 - Julian Sands, actor
January 22 - Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
January 23 - Earl Falconer, bassist
January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
February 6 - Kathy Najimy, actress, comedian
February 6 - Robert Townsend, comedian, actor, director, producer
February 8 - Cindy Wilson, singer, of The B-52s
March 10 - Osama Bin Laden, terrorist?
February 16 - LeVar Burton, actor
February 16 - James Ingram, singer
February 18 - Vanna White, game show presenter
February 19 - Falco, singer (+ 1998)
March 10 - Osama bin Laden, terrorist
March 12 - Steve Harris, musician. See Iron Maiden.
March 20 - Spike Lee, film director, actor
March 29 - Christopher Lambert, actor
March 30 - Paul Reiser, actor
April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
May 7 - Sinjin Smith, volleyball player
May 10 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (+ 1979)
June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
September 1 - Gloria Estefan, singer
September 12 - Rachel Ward, actress
December 9 - Donny Osmond, singer
December 20 - Billy Bragg, singer
December 30 - Matt Lauer, NBC newscaster

Deaths:

January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician
February 9 - Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent
February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer
March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
March 25 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, US senator
May 9 - Ezio Pinza, opera singer
May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, artist
May 16 - Eliot Ness, federal agent
August 7 -Oliver Hardy, American actor
August 19 - David Bomberg, painter
September 1 - Dennis Brain, French horn player
September 20 - Jean Sibelius, composer
September 21 - Haakon VII of Norway
October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author.
November 24 - Diego Rivera, painter
November 30 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Joyce Cary, author
Malcolm Lowry, author

Awards/Prizes

Winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1957: Corry Brokken with Net Als Toen

Nobel Prizes: