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1957 Calendar

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•  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 22, 1957 – The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
•  January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
•  February 3, 1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
•  February 18, 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
•  March 9, 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
•  June 4, 1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
•  September 2, 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
•  September 22, 1957 – In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
•  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.

•  January 25, 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress
•  January 29, 1957 – Rino Schreuder, Dutch publisher
•  February 23, 1957 – Ria Brieffies, Dutch singer (d. 2009)
•  February 28, 1957 – Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
•  July 4, 1957 – Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
•  August 7, 1957 – Caroline Aaron, American actress
•  August 8, 1957 – Dennis Drew, keyboardist for the band 10,000 Maniacs
•  August 12, 1957 – Friedhelm Schütte, German footballer
•  September 16, 1957 – Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer
•  September 29, 1957 – Chris Broad, English cricketer and match referee