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- Herausgeber: Kerry Butters
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
Memories Of 1957.by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents. Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year. Look out for other years in the series by the same Author. 1916 - Present. Ideal for Birthdays, Anniversaries Etc.
Front Cover - Laika the space dog.
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Memories Of 1957
By
Kerry Butters.
Table of Contents
Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
In the News
Memories of 1957
Millennium: - 2nd millennium
Centuries: - 19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades: - 1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: - 1954 1955 1956 – 1957 – 1958 1959 1960
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the
2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
Events
January
January 2 – The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
January 4 – After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly
magazine is published in the United States.
January 5 – Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball in Test cricket.
January 6 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the 3rd and final time. He is shown only from the waist up, even during the gospel segment, singing "Peace In The Valley". Ed Sullivan describes Elvis thus: "This is a real decent, fine boy. We've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you. You're thoroughly all right."
January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns.
January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
January 13 – Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
January 14 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
American screen actor Humphrey Bogart dies aged 57 in California after a long battle with cancer.
January 15 – Release, in Japan, of the film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth.
January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool as a jazz club.
January 20 Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956).
The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
January 23 – Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River; he drowns as a result.
January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
January 31 – Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California, are among the 8 persons killed following a mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet, in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, U.S.
February
February 2 – President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage across the Indus River near Sukkur.
February 4 France prohibits U.N. involvement in Algeria.
The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is decommissioned on March 3, 1980.
A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia, kills 37 men.
February 6 – The Soviet Union announces that Swedish envoy Raoul Wallenberg had died in a Soviet prison "possibly of a heart attack" on July 17, 1947.
February 10 – The Confederation of African Football is founded at a meeting in Khartoum.
February 15 – Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet Union.
February 16 The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television closedown between 6.00 p.m. and 7.00 p.m., is abolished in the United Kingdom.
Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens at cinema in Sweden.
February 17 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, kills 72 people.
February 18 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
The last person to be executed in New Zealand, Walter James Bolton, is hanged at Mount Eden Prison for poisoning his wife.
February 23 – The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc opens in Dakar.
February 25 – The Boy In The Box is discovered along a sidewalk in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The murder victim is described as Caucasian in appearance and 4 to 6 years old; the case is never solved.
February 28 – Gaston, a French comic strip, is introduced.
March
March 1 U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma.
Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay.
Sud Aviation forms from a merger between SNCASE (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Est) and SNCASO (Société Nationale de Constructions Aéronautiques du Sud Ouest).
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is published in the United States.
March 3 – Net als toen sung by Corry Brokken (music by Guus Jansen, lyrics by Willy van Hemert) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (held at Frankfurt) for the Netherlands.
