1957 Calendar
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1957 Historical Event(s)
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 1, 1957
– Felix Wankel’s first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
May 1, 1957
– 34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashed in Hampshire England.
June 21, 1957
– Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first woman Cabinet Minister.
July 1, 1957
– The International Geophysical Year begins.
July 25, 1957
– The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
July 28, 1957
– Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
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 2, 1957
– The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
Who Were Born On 1957?
March 24, 1957
– Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier
April 4, 1957
– Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
May 21, 1957
– Nadine Dorries, British Conservative politician
June 4, 1957
– John Treacy, Irish athlete
July 9, 1957
– Marc Almond, British singer
August 12, 1957
– Friedhelm Schütte, German footballer
November 6, 1957
– Cam Clarke, American voice actor
November 27, 1957
– Kevin O'Connell, American sound re-recording mixer
December 20, 1957
– Joyce Hyser, American actress