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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 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
•  February 3, 1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
•  March 6, 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
•  March 31, 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
•  August 27, 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.
•  September 29, 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
•  October 10, 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
•  October 24, 1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
•  November 8, 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

•  March 23, 1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)
•  April 14, 1957 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
•  April 29, 1957 – Timothy Treadwell, American ecologist (d. 2003)
•  May 29, 1957 – Ted Levine, American actor
•  June 22, 1957 – Danny Baker, English comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter
•  July 11, 1957 – Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
•  October 20, 1957 – Chris Cowdrey, English cricketer
•  October 31, 1957 – Brian Stokes Mitchell, American singer and actor
•  December 2, 1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician
•  December 8, 1957 – Phil Collen, English guitarist (Def Leppard)