1957 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1957?
- January 1, 1957 – An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA’s Operation Harvest.
- January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 2, 1957 – Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
- February 22, 1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
- March 4, 1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
- March 6, 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
- 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.
- April 11, 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- April 15, 1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
- 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 4, 1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
- June 21, 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
- September 4, 1957 – 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.
- October 4, 1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- October 24, 1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- November 2, 1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
- November 8, 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
- November 17, 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
- December 6, 1957 – 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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