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1957 Calendar

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•  January 22, 1957 – Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
•  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 18, 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
•  March 13, 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
•  April 6, 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
•  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.
•  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.
•  September 17, 1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations.

•  March 15, 1957 – Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football manager
•  March 17, 1957 – Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
•  April 13, 1957 – Gary Kroeger, American actor
•  May 27, 1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
•  June 4, 1957 – Yoon Suk-ho, South Korean director
•  August 31, 1957 – Glenn Tilbrook, English singer and guitarist (Squeeze)
•  September 8, 1957 – Heather Thomas, American actress
•  September 25, 1957 – Ian Reddington, English actor
•  December 1, 1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist (Megadeth)
•  December 19, 1957 – John Gulager, American film director