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Events on the year of 1957 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1957 France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep
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01 Jan 1957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6 / 30 / 1958 (18-mo year)
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01 Jan 1957 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks during Operation Harvest; two IRA volunteers killed.
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01 Jan 1957 George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II.
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03 Jan 1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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03 Jan 1957 The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
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04 Jan 1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
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04 Jan 1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
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05 Jan 1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
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05 Jan 1957 In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
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06 Jan 1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
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09 Jan 1957 British Premier Anthony Eden resigns
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09 Jan 1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
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09 Jan 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
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09 Jan 1957 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
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09 Jan 1957 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR
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09 Jan 1957 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
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10 Jan 1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of Britain
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10 Jan 1957 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates
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11 Jan 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
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12 Jan 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
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13 Jan 1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee
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13 Jan 1957 Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open
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13 Jan 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
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14 Jan 1957 Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
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15 Jan 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
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16 Jan 1957 Cavern Club (home of Beatles' 1st appearance) opens on Mathew Street in England
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16 Jan 1957 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round the world flights
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17 Jan 1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
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18 Jan 1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes
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19 Jan 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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20 Jan 1957 Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
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20 Jan 1957 Morton Gould's "Declaration" premieres in Washington DC
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21 Jan 1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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22 Jan 1957 The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
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22 Jan 1957 Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
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22 Jan 1957 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
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23 Jan 1957 American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
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25 Jan 1957 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR
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26 Jan 1957 Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres
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26 Jan 1957 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
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26 Jan 1957 India annexes Kashmir
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26 Jan 1957 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as president of Milwaukee Braves
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27 Jan 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
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28 Jan 1957 "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie and Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen and Jack Paar)
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29 Jan 1957 Graham Greene's "Potting Shed" premieres in New York City NY
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30 Jan 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
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30 Jan 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
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31 Jan 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.
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31 Jan 1957 Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
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31 Jan 1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
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01 Feb 1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
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01 Feb 1957 Gijsbert of Hall appointed Mayor of Amsterdam
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01 Feb 1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
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02 Feb 1957 "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
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02 Feb 1957 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
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02 Feb 1957 Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage.
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03 Feb 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
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03 Feb 1957 Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
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04 Feb 1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
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05 Feb 1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
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10 Feb 1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
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10 Feb 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
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11 Feb 1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
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11 Feb 1957 NHL Players Association forms (New York NY), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president
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12 Feb 1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
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13 Feb 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans
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14 Feb 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
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15 Feb 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister
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16 Feb 1957 The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
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17 Feb 1957 Suez Canal reopens
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17 Feb 1957 Fire in Warreton MO, kills 72
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17 Feb 1957 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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18 Feb 1957 Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
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18 Feb 1957 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
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20 Feb 1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs England, 13 wickets for match
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21 Feb 1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
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21 Feb 1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) & Cubs (Los Angeles) "trade" minor league franchises
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22 Feb 1957 Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
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22 Feb 1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
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22 Feb 1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
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23 Feb 1957 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
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25 Feb 1957 Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"
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25 Feb 1957 Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
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27 Feb 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)
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27 Feb 1957 Mao's speech "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People"
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28 Feb 1957 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
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01 Mar 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances
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01 Mar 1957 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
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01 Mar 1957 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC / ABC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Mar 1957 Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"
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03 Mar 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham and Jones (GRB)
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03 Mar 1957 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)
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03 Mar 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
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03 Mar 1957 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)
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04 Mar 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
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05 Mar 1957 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
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06 Mar 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from the UK
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06 Mar 1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
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08 Mar 1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
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08 Mar 1957 Ghana joins the United Nations.
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08 Mar 1957 The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
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08 Mar 1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
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09 Mar 1957 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
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09 Mar 1957 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
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10 Mar 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
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12 Mar 1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
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12 Mar 1957 German Democratic Republic accepts 22 Russian divisions
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13 Mar 1957 Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
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13 Mar 1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
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14 Mar 1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
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15 Mar 1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
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16 Mar 1957 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young & Loretta Young
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16 Mar 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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16 Mar 1957 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1
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17 Mar 1957 A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
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17 Mar 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
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17 Mar 1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of Philippines dies in a plane crash
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18 Mar 1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus MS (NBC) begins
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19 Mar 1957 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
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20 Mar 1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
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21 Mar 1957 Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending" premieres in New York NY
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22 Mar 1957 Earthquake gives SF shakes
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22 Mar 1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco shakes
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22 Mar 1957 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian
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23 Mar 1957 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 overtimes)
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23 Mar 1957 US army sells last homing pigeons
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25 Mar 1957 The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
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25 Mar 1957 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
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25 Mar 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
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25 Mar 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)
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27 Mar 1957 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days, " Bergman, Brynner win
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27 Mar 1957 29th Academy Awards: "Around World in 80 Days", Yul Brynner & Ingrid Bergman win
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28 Mar 1957 1st National Curling Championship held
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29 Mar 1957 The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
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30 Mar 1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
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31 Mar 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
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01 Apr 1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising
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01 Apr 1957 WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, LA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Apr 1957 The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti-tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
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05 Apr 1957 In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
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06 Apr 1957 New York City ends trolley car service
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06 Apr 1957 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
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07 Apr 1957 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283
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09 Apr 1957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
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09 Apr 1957 The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
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10 Apr 1957 The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
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10 Apr 1957 John Osborne's "Entertainer", premieres in London
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10 Apr 1957 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
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10 Apr 1957 Suez canal reopens for all traffic
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10 Apr 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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11 Apr 1957 United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
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11 Apr 1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
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11 Apr 1957 Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires
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12 Apr 1957 Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record
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12 Apr 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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13 Apr 1957 "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
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13 Apr 1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is temporarily halted
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13 Apr 1957 11th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
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13 Apr 1957 11th Tony Awards Long Days Journey into the Night & My Fair Lady win
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14 Apr 1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
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14 Apr 1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
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15 Apr 1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
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15 Apr 1957 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Apr 1957 Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs Post Office $41 million
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16 Apr 1957 Stanley Cup Montr
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16 Apr 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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20 Apr 1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway Park
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20 Apr 1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05
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21 Apr 1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
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21 Apr 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum
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22 Apr 1957 All National League teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies
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24 Apr 1957 The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore
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24 Apr 1957 Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
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24 Apr 1957 Chicago Cub pitchers walk National League record 9 Reds in 5th inning
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25 Apr 1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
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25 Apr 1957 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
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25 Apr 1957 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Apr 1957 Jamestown VA 350th Anniversary Festival opens
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28 Apr 1957 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
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29 Apr 1957 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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30 Apr 1957 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
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01 May 1957 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
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01 May 1957 US give Poland credit of $95 million
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01 May 1957 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
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01 May 1957 Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England.
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03 May 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, to Los Angeles.
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04 May 1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
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04 May 1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
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05 May 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open
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06 May 1957 Italian government of Segni resigns
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06 May 1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
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06 May 1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
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07 May 1957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
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10 May 1957 1st meeting of legislature of Cameroon
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10 May 1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow
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11 May 1957 Gabriel Paris forms Government of Colombia
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12 May 1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open
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14 May 1957 "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 432 performances
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14 May 1957 Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
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15 May 1957 At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
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15 May 1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
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15 May 1957 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
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16 May 1957 Major Irwin, USAF flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH
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16 May 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
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16 May 1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton CT
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16 May 1957 Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
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17 May 1957 School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education
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17 May 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia)
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18 May 1957 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2
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19 May 1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian Government
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21 May 1957 French Government of Mollet resigns
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22 May 1957 KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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22 May 1957 Red Sox set American League record by smashing 4 homeruns in 6th inning in 11-0 win
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22 May 1957 South Africa Government approves race separation in universities
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24 May 1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
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24 May 1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
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25 May 1957 "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
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26 May 1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
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28 May 1957 National League approves Brooklyn Dodgers' & New York Giants' move to west coast
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28 May 1957 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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28 May 1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
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29 May 1957 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast
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29 May 1957 Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators
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29 May 1957 Laos Government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
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30 May 1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
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30 May 1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs England at Edgbaston
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31 May 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric)
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01 Jun 1957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden)
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02 Jun 1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
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02 Jun 1957 US TV interviews Khrushchev
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04 Jun 1957 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation
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04 Jun 1957 May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs
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05 Jun 1957 New York narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
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09 Jun 1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British Prime Minister
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09 Jun 1957 First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
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10 Jun 1957 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
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10 Jun 1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister
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10 Jun 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada
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10 Jun 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 government.
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11 Jun 1957 12 die in a train crash in Vroman, Colorado
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12 Jun 1957 Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak)
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12 Jun 1957 Paul Anderson of US back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
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13 Jun 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts
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13 Jun 1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
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14 Jun 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois (state record)
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14 Jun 1957 Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
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15 Jun 1957 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 performances
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15 Jun 1957 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Ill (state record)
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15 Jun 1957 57th US Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo
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15 Jun 1957 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6
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15 Jun 1957 Yanks trade Billy Martin & Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran
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16 Jun 1957 French offensive in Algeria
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16 Jun 1957 White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Washingston Senators 8-6
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17 Jun 1957 "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2
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17 Jun 1957 Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
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18 Jun 1957 John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada
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21 Jun 1957 Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister.
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22 Jun 1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
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22 Jun 1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
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23 Jun 1957 S B Nicholson discovers asteroid #1647 Menelaus
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24 Jun 1957 "I Love Lucy, " last airs on CBS-TV
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24 Jun 1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
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25 Jun 1957 "Jonathan Winters Show, " last airs on NBC-TV
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26 Jun 1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives
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27 Jun 1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas
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27 Jun 1957 Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana.
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27 Jun 1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal La & Tx
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28 Jun 1957 Frick overrules and names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to team
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29 Jun 1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
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01 Jul 1957 International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
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01 Jul 1957 WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield / Keene / Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
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01 Jul 1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.
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02 Jul 1957 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
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04 Jul 1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
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05 Jul 1957 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
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05 Jul 1957 Tom Graveney scores 258 vs. West Indies at Trent Bridge
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06 Jul 1957 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
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06 Jul 1957 Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney
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06 Jul 1957 Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
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06 Jul 1957 Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
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06 Jul 1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
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07 Jul 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
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08 Jul 1957 Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
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08 Jul 1957 CDC incorporates
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08 Jul 1957 Irish Premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
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09 Jul 1957 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
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11 Jul 1957 Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
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12 Jul 1957 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
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12 Jul 1957 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
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14 Jul 1957 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
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14 Jul 1957 Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
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15 Jul 1957 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
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16 Jul 1957 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
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19 Jul 1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
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19 Jul 1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
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21 Jul 1957 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley Golf Club - Dayton, Ohio
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21 Jul 1957 Marilynn Smith / Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
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21 Jul 1957 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
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24 Jul 1957 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
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25 Jul 1957 The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
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25 Jul 1957 Monarchy in Tunisa abolished in favor of a republic
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26 Jul 1957 Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
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26 Jul 1957 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
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26 Jul 1957 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
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28 Jul 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
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28 Jul 1957 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
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28 Jul 1957 White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
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29 Jul 1957 Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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29 Jul 1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
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29 Jul 1957 Jack Paar's Tonight show premiers
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01 Aug 1957 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
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01 Aug 1957 Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Brooklyn)
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01 Aug 1957 US and Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
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01 Aug 1957 The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
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03 Aug 1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
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05 Aug 1957 "American Bandstand, " begins network TV (ABC)
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05 Aug 1957 Brooklyn Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million
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05 Aug 1957 Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut
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05 Aug 1957 WJZ-TV in Baltimore Maryland begins radio transmissions
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05 Aug 1957 American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
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08 Aug 1957 USSR offers Syria economic / military aid
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09 Aug 1957 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
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11 Aug 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
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15 Aug 1957 USAF Captain Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
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15 Aug 1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
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17 Aug 1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
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18 Aug 1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
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18 Aug 1957 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4
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18 Aug 1957 Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
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19 Aug 1957 New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
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19 Aug 1957 US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
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20 Aug 1957 "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
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20 Aug 1957 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washingston Senators, 6-0
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20 Aug 1957 USAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
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21 Aug 1957 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)
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22 Aug 1957 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
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25 Aug 1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
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26 Aug 1957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
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27 Aug 1957 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
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28 Aug 1957 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
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28 Aug 1957 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill
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29 Aug 1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957
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29 Aug 1957 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights
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30 Aug 1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
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31 Aug 1957 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain
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31 Aug 1957 The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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31 Aug 1957 Malaya (Malaysia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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01 Sep 1957 Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400
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01 Sep 1957 WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
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01 Sep 1957 WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast
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01 Sep 1957 WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, Florida (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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02 Sep 1957 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
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02 Sep 1957 President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
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03 Sep 1957 Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ)
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03 Sep 1957 KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Sep 1957 Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out
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04 Sep 1957 Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel
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04 Sep 1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
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04 Sep 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.
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04 Sep 1957 The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
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05 Sep 1957 Cuban Dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising
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05 Sep 1957 Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
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06 Sep 1957 Elvis records "White Xmas", "Silent Night" and"Here Comes Santa Claus"
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07 Sep 1957 71st US Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62)
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07 Sep 1957 WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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08 Sep 1957 77th US Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64)
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08 Sep 1957 Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite"
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08 Sep 1957 Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV
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09 Sep 1957 "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1
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09 Sep 1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
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10 Sep 1957 "Mask & Gown" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 39 performances
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12 Sep 1957 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits US
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14 Sep 1957 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
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15 Sep 1957 "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
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15 Sep 1957 Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
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15 Sep 1957 San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
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16 Sep 1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
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16 Sep 1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
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17 Sep 1957 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico
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17 Sep 1957 KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
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17 Sep 1957 Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat
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17 Sep 1957 Malaysia joins the United Nations.
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17 Sep 1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
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18 Sep 1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
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18 Sep 1957 Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels
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18 Sep 1957 "Wagon Train" premiers
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19 Sep 1957 First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
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19 Sep 1957 1st underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas Nevada)
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21 Sep 1957 "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV
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21 Sep 1957 German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean
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21 Sep 1957 Olav V, becomes King of Norway
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21 Sep 1957 Pote Sarasin forms government in Thailand
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22 Sep 1957 "Maverick" premieres
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22 Sep 1957 In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
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23 Sep 1957 Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2
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23 Sep 1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
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23 Sep 1957 WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS / FOX) begins broadcasting
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24 Sep 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
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24 Sep 1957 Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
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24 Sep 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
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24 Sep 1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
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25 Sep 1957 Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
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25 Sep 1957 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
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25 Sep 1957 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
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26 Sep 1957 "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 performances
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26 Sep 1957 Musical "West Side Story, " opens on Broadway
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26 Sep 1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh / Semipalitinsk USSR
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26 Sep 1957 Dag Hammarskj
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26 Sep 1957 Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
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27 Sep 1957 Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built
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28 Sep 1957 "Dollar A Second, " last airs on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1957 "Gisele MacKenzie Show, " debuts on NBC-TV
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28 Sep 1957 "Honeycomb, " by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1
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28 Sep 1957 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels
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29 Sep 1957 "DuPont Show of the Month, " debuts on CBS-TV
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29 Sep 1957 "Paul Winchell Show, " debuts on ABC-TV
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29 Sep 1957 New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pittsburgh)
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29 Sep 1957 Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die
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29 Sep 1957 Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
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29 Sep 1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
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30 Sep 1957 French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria
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30 Sep 1957 WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
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01 Oct 1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of the USSR attack
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01 Oct 1957 First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
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02 Oct 1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
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02 Oct 1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
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03 Oct 1957 Willy Brandt elected Mayor of West Berlin
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03 Oct 1957 The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
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04 Oct 1957 "Leave It to Beaver, " debuts on CBS
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04 Oct 1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite
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04 Oct 1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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04 Oct 1957 Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
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04 Oct 1957 Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.
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05 Oct 1957 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
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05 Oct 1957 Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years
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06 Oct 1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
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07 Oct 1957 "American Bandstand" premieres
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07 Oct 1957 KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Oct 1957 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
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08 Oct 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles
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08 Oct 1957 Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Minister of Defense
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08 Oct 1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
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08 Oct 1957 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire
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10 Oct 1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
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10 Oct 1957 Milwaukee Braves beat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
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10 Oct 1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
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10 Oct 1957 The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.
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10 Oct 1957 Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 world series (World Series #54)
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11 Oct 1957 Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit.
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12 Oct 1957 "Mask & Gown" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances
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12 Oct 1957 "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 62 performances
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12 Oct 1957 1st coml flight between California and Antartica
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12 Oct 1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
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13 Oct 1957 German Dem Republic recalls East Mark and issues new currency
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14 Oct 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.
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15 Oct 1957 Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
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16 Oct 1957 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
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16 Oct 1957 USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space
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17 Oct 1957 "Copper & Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
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17 Oct 1957 Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed
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17 Oct 1957 II Tsjoendrigar becomes Premier of Pakistan
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17 Oct 1957 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House
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17 Oct 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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19 Oct 1957 "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 1,022 performances
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19 Oct 1957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
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20 Oct 1957 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w / o losing a wkt
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20 Oct 1957 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
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21 Oct 1957 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
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21 Oct 1957 Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens
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21 Oct 1957 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open
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22 Oct 1957 Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
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22 Oct 1957 KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
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22 Oct 1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
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23 Oct 1957 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3
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24 Oct 1957 Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
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24 Oct 1957 The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
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25 Oct 1957 Russian Minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
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26 Oct 1957 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
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26 Oct 1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1957 Celal Bayar re-elected President of Turkey
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27 Oct 1957 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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28 Oct 1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Oct 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
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29 Oct 1957 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)
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30 Oct 1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
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30 Oct 1957 WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast
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30 Oct 1957 WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1957 KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1957 KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT (CBS / NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1957 WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting
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01 Nov 1957 World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits, Michigan)
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01 Nov 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.
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02 Nov 1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto Ohio
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02 Nov 1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
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03 Nov 1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
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03 Nov 1957 Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
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04 Nov 1957 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
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06 Nov 1957 "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
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06 Nov 1957 Felix Gaillard becomes Premier of France
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07 Nov 1957 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
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07 Nov 1957 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
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08 Nov 1957 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
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10 Nov 1957 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
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11 Nov 1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (San Francisco)
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14 Nov 1957 Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ
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14 Nov 1957 Henry Aaron wins NL MVP
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15 Nov 1957 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
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16 Nov 1957 "Copper & Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
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16 Nov 1957 Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89
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16 Nov 1957 Ed Gein butchers last victim
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17 Nov 1957 WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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18 Nov 1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
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19 Nov 1957 Antonin Novotny appointed President of Czechoslovakia
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22 Nov 1957 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
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22 Nov 1957 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in New York
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22 Nov 1957 Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry"
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22 Nov 1957 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP
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25 Nov 1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
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26 Nov 1957 WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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27 Nov 1957 Army withdraws from Little Rock AR, after Central HS integration
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28 Nov 1957 "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in New York City
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28 Nov 1957 Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award
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29 Nov 1957 New York Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants
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30 Nov 1957 "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances
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30 Nov 1957 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7
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30 Nov 1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, kills 8
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02 Dec 1957 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
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03 Dec 1957 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
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05 Dec 1957 New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
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05 Dec 1957 Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
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06 Dec 1957 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
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06 Dec 1957 AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
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06 Dec 1957 Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
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06 Dec 1957 Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
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07 Dec 1957 Tony Kubek of the Yanks selected as AL Rookie of the Year
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09 Dec 1957 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
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11 Dec 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
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12 Dec 1957 US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
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12 Dec 1957 Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife, Jane Mitcham
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12 Dec 1957 Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
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14 Dec 1957 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 678 performances
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14 Dec 1957 "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 45 performances
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16 Dec 1957 Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan.
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17 Dec 1957 The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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17 Dec 1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
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18 Dec 1957 Shippingport Atomic Power Station, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
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19 Dec 1957 "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
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19 Dec 1957 "The Music Man", starring Robert Preston, opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
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20 Dec 1957 The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
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20 Dec 1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
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21 Dec 1957 Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
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22 Dec 1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton WY (ABC) begins
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23 Dec 1957 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout & Bobby Simpson vs South Africa
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25 Dec 1957 Ed Gein found insane of murder
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25 Dec 1957 Ed Gein judged insane and committed to Waupan State Hospital for a life sentence for the murders of Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden
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26 Dec 1957 Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London
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28 Dec 1957 CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on
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28 Dec 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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29 Dec 1957 Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
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29 Dec 1957 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
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29 Dec 1957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorm
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30 Dec 1957 Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns
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30 Dec 1957 New York Giants win NFL championship
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31 Dec 1957 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
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