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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 16, 1957 – The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
•  February 18, 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
•  March 6, 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British
•  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.
•  July 11, 1957 – Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
•  September 2, 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
•  October 4, 1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
•  October 14, 1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.

•  January 29, 1957 – Rino Schreuder, Dutch publisher
•  February 28, 1957 – Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996)
•  March 11, 1957 – Cheryl Lynn, American singer
•  March 15, 1957 – David Silverman, American animator
•  March 20, 1957 – Chris Wedge, American animator
•  April 20, 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-born Canadian actor
•  May 26, 1957 – Diomedes Diaz, Colombian singer
•  June 6, 1957 – Fred Arbinger, German footballer
•  June 20, 1957 – Koko B. Ware, American professional wrestler
•  December 16, 1957 – Antonio Vega, Spanish pop singer/songwriter (d. 2009)