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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.
•  May 27, 1957 – Toronto‘s CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada’s first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n’Roll music format.
•  June 4, 1957 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley.
•  July 16, 1957 – United States Marine major John Glenn flies a F8U Crusader supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
•  September 4, 1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
•  September 5, 1957 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
•  October 3, 1957 – Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
•  October 22, 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
•  November 8, 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

•  January 9, 1957 – Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
•  January 25, 1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress
•  February 2, 1957 – Phil Barney, French singer
•  February 3, 1957 – Steven Stapleton, English musician (Nurse With Wound)
•  June 21, 1957 – Lucien DeBlois, Canadian professional ice hockey player
•  August 5, 1957 – David Gill, chief executive of Manchester United
•  August 18, 1957 – Carole Bouquet, French actress
•  September 6, 1957 – José Sócrates, Prime Minister of Portugal
•  September 16, 1957 – Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer
•  November 24, 1957 – Edward Stourton, British radio presenter