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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.
•  April 15, 1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
•  June 21, 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
•  July 14, 1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
•  August 27, 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
•  August 28, 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
•  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 19, 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
•  October 4, 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
•  November 8, 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

•  March 5, 1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
•  April 28, 1957 – Wilma Landkroon, Dutch singer
•  May 5, 1957 – Peter Howitt, British actor and film director
•  June 6, 1957 – Christian Rach, German chef
•  June 29, 1957 – Michael Nutter, American politician
•  July 9, 1957 – Marc Almond, British singer
•  July 13, 1957 – Cameron Crowe, American film director
•  July 21, 1957 – Jon Lovitz, American comedian
•  October 11, 1957 – Dawn French, Welsh comedian,actress and screenwriter
•  November 24, 1957 – Denise Crosby, American actress