1957 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1957?
- January 31, 1957 – Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
- February 3, 1957 – Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
- February 18, 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- 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.
- April 11, 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- May 3, 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
- July 6, 1957 – Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- July 26, 1957 – Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
- August 31, 1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- September 25, 1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
- October 3, 1957 – Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- October 4, 1957 – Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- October 10, 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
- October 22, 1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
- October 24, 1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- December 5, 1957 – Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
- December 6, 1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
- December 16, 1957 – Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- December 17, 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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