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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.
•  March 6, 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
•  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.
•  March 25, 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
•  April 5, 1957 – In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister.
•  July 28, 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
•  July 29, 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
•  September 2, 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
•  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.

•  March 10, 1957 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda (d. 2011)
•  March 23, 1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress
•  May 17, 1957 – Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball player
•  May 25, 1957 – Edward Lee, American writer
•  May 28, 1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player
•  July 9, 1957 – Kelly McGillis, American actress
•  July 25, 1957 – Steve Podborski, Canadian downhill ski racer
•  August 2, 1957 – Farhat Basir Khan, Indian Photography and Media Activist Academician, a critically acclaimed Media Professional.
•  September 11, 1957 – Brad Bird, American director and animator
•  December 4, 1957 – Eric S. Raymond, American open source advocate