1957 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1957?
- January 11, 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 25, 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
- April 9, 1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
- 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 6, 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon’s band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter’s Church Hall fête in Woolton.
- 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.
- July 14, 1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- July 25, 1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
- September 19, 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
- September 22, 1957 – In Haiti, Francois Duvalier is elected president.
- October 4, 1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
- 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 1, 1957 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas.
- November 2, 1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
- November 7, 1957 – Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- November 8, 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
- November 14, 1957 – The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
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