1957 Calendar
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1957 Historical Event(s)
- January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- February 18, 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- March 25, 1957 – The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg).
- May 1, 1957 – 34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
- May 3, 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- 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.
- July 26, 1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
- August 27, 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
- October 4, 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 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.
Who Were Born On 1957?
- January 7, 1957 – Julian Solis, Puerto Rican boxer
- January 22, 1957 – Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
- March 7, 1957 – Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist
- March 10, 1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
- April 17, 1957 – Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress
- September 12, 1957 – Rachel Ward, English actress
- October 21, 1957 – Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- October 31, 1957 – Shirley Phelps-Roper, American attorney
- November 1, 1957 – Peter Ostrum, American actor
- December 30, 1957 – Matt Lauer, American newscaster