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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 18, 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
•  March 25, 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
•  April 10, 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
•  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 15, 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
•  August 5, 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage “baby-boomers” by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
•  September 2, 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
•  October 1, 1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
•  December 17, 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

•  January 17, 1957 – Steve Harvey, American actor, comedian and radio personality
•  January 29, 1957 – Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
•  February 28, 1957 – John Turturro, American actor
•  March 23, 1957 – Teresa Ganzel, American actress
•  May 15, 1957 – Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
•  July 13, 1957 – Phil Margera, American TV personality
•  August 31, 1957 – Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go’s)
•  October 27, 1957 – Jeff East, American actor
•  December 12, 1957 – Sheila E., American musician
•  December 15, 1957 – Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998)