1957 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1957?
- January 11, 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- 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 18, 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
- March 13, 1957 – Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
- 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.
- April 11, 1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
- April 15, 1957 – White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city.
- May 15, 1957 – At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
- 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 10, 1957 – John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
- 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.
- 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.
- October 1, 1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
- October 3, 1957 – Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- October 4, 1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 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.
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