1957 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1957?
- January 1, 1957 – George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- January 5, 1957 – In a speech given to the United States Congress, President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
- January 31, 1957 – 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.
- February 22, 1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- March 8, 1957 – 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 U.S. state of Georgia.
- March 25, 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
- 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.
- July 6, 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon’s band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter’s Church Hall fête in Woolton.
- July 25, 1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- August 27, 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
- September 19, 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
- September 25, 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
- October 1, 1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
- October 3, 1957 – Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- October 4, 1957 – Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- November 2, 1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
- November 3, 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
- December 17, 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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