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1957 Calendar

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•  January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  February 16, 1957 – The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
•  May 15, 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
•  June 22, 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
•  July 6, 1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
•  July 16, 1957 – 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.
•  September 24, 1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
•  September 29, 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
•  October 4, 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
•  December 16, 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.

•  January 11, 1957 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player
•  January 27, 1957 – Frank Skinner, English writer and comedian
•  May 15, 1957 – Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque statesman
•  June 29, 1957 – Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter (The Go-Betweens)
•  September 1, 1957 – Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball coach
•  September 14, 1957 – Tim Wallach, American baseball player
•  October 14, 1957 – Michel Després, Quebec politician
•  October 15, 1957 – Stacy Peralta, American director
•  October 31, 1957 – Robert Pollard, American rocker
•  November 3, 1957 – Gary Olsen, British actor (d. 2000)