| 1957-10-22
Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
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| 1957-04-09
The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
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| 1957-04-05
In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
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| 1957-07-01
The International Geophysical Year begins.
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| 1957-09-25
Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
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| 1957-12-05
Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
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| 1957-07-28
Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
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| 1957-03-29
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run.
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| 1957-09-04
American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
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| 1957-07-29
The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
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| 1957-12-17
The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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| 1957-11-03
Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
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| 1957-10-11
Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit.
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| 1957-04-06
Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
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| 1957-06-21
Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
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| 1957-10-01
First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
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| 1957-07-11
Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
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| 1957-03-08
The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
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| 1957-08-31
The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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| 1957-04-24
Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
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| 1957-11-17
G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause was a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
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| 1957-07-16
United States Marine major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
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| 1957-01-31
Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
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| 1957-05-15
At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
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| 1957-06-24
In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment .
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| 1957-09-02
President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
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| 1957-06-09
First ascent of Broad Peak/Faichan Kangri, the world's 12th highest mountain, by an Austrian expedition lead by Marcus Schmuck and with Fritz Wintersteller, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl.
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| 1957-03-08
Ghana joins the United Nations.
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| 1957-11-14
The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
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| 1957-03-08
Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
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| 1957-10-03
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
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| 1957-10-04
Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
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| 1957-08-01
The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD).
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| 1957-02-23
The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
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| 1957-10-29
Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
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| 1957-04-10
The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
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| 1957-07-26
Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
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| 1957-11-02
The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
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| 1957-06-22
The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
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| 1957-02-03
Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
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| 1957-01-11
The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
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| 1957-02-16
The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00pm and 7.00pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
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| 1957-07-06
Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
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| 1957-01-01
An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.
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| 1957-04-01
The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
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| 1957-10-10
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
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| 1957-03-25
The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
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| 1957-08-05
American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
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| 1957-03-17
A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
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| 1957-04-11
Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
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| 1957-12-06
Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
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| 1957-11-07
Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
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| 1957-03-04
The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
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| 1957-11-08
Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
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| 1957-08-27
The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
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| 1957-09-04
The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
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| 1957-09-29
20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
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| 1957-02-17
A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, kills 72 people.
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| 1957-07-25
The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
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| 1957-01-22
Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
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| 1957-10-04
Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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| 1957-10-14
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada].
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| 1957-03-13
Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
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| 1957-10-10
The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
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| 1957-03-31
Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
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| 1957-09-24
Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
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| 1957-01-11
Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed in Colorado by gas chamber.
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| 1957-09-17
Malaysia joins the United Nations.
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| 1957-04-15
White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
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| 1957-01-03
The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
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| 1957-11-01
The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
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| 1957-03-06
United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
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| 1957-09-05
Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
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| 1957-02-01
Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
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| 1957-02-02
Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
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| 1957-07-06
John Lennon meets Paul McCartney at a fete in Woolton.
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| 1957-03-25
United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity.
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| 1957-03-09
A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
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| 1957-09-24
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
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| 1957-10-24
The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
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| 1957-12-23
Ian Craig of Australia becomes the youngest Test cricket captain in history.
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| 1957-01-01
George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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| 1957-05-03
Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
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| 1957-09-19
First American underground nuclear bomb test.
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| 1957-08-26
The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS.
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| 1957-02-18
Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
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| 1957-01-22
The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
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| 1957-06-10
John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
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| 1957-12-16
Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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| 1957-05-27
Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
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