1957 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1957?
- January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 22, 1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- March 8, 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
- March 29, 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
- April 1, 1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
- May 27, 1957 – Toronto‘s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada’s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n’Roll music format.
- June 10, 1957 – 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.
- June 24, 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- July 6, 1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- July 26, 1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
- August 5, 1957 – 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.
- August 26, 1957 – 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.
- September 22, 1957 – In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
- September 24, 1957 – Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
- September 25, 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
- September 29, 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
- October 1, 1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
- October 4, 1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- October 10, 1957 – 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.
- October 14, 1957 – 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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