1957

Years:
1954 1955 1956 - 1957(MCMLVII) - 1958 1959 1960

Decades:
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1957 by topic:
Arts	Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology	Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries	Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other	Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming

1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January 1 - Saarland joins West Germany
January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form 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
January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed handled the ball in test match cricket
January 10 - Anthony Eden resigns - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom
January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee
January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool
January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they captured it from Egypt in a battle on October 29, 1956)
January 22 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is 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.
February 4 - France prohibits UN involvement in Algeria
February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union

Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence

March 1 - U Nu becomes Prime Minister of Burma
March 1 - Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay
March 1 - 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)
March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana
March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal
March 10 - Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery
March 14 - President Sukarno declares martial law in Indonesia
March 20 - French newspaper L'Express reveals that the French army tortures Algerian prisoners
March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU

April 1 - The first new conscripts join the Bundeswehr
April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI won the elections and E. M. S. Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala
April 9 - Egypt reopens Suez Canal for all shipping
April 12 - United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self rule January 1 1958
April 12 - Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in England, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity
May 2 - Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello
May 3 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
May 15 - Stanley Matthews plays his final international game, ending an English record international career of almost 23 years
May 16 - Paul-Henri Spaak becomes the new secretary-general of NATO.
June 9 - First ascent of Broad Peak
June 15 - Eindhoven University of Technology is founded.
June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
June 25 - United Church of Christ formed in Cleveland, Ohio by merger of Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
June 27 - Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people.

July - International Geophysical Year begins.
July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.
July 25 - Tunisia becomes a republic.
July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
August 4 - Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record fifth world drivers championship, including his fourth consecutive championship (also a record); these two records would endure for nearly half a century.
August 31 - The Federation of Malaya, which does not include Singapore, gains independence from the United Kingdom. Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan becomes the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 4 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orville Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.
September 4 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day."
September 21 - Olav V becomes King of Norway on the death of Haakon VII.

November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
November 3 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika (she was kept alive for several days in space with a sophisticated life-support system).
November 7 - Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
November 13 - Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice
November 14 - Apalachin Meeting - The leaders of the American Mafia meet at a convention in Apalachin, New York at the house of Joseph Barbara. It is broken up by a curious patrolman.
November 15 - Plane crash in the Isle of Wight leaves 43 dead.
November 16 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin.
November 30 - Grenade attack against Indonesian president Sukarno in Cikini School in Jakarta. Six children killed, Sukarno survives unscathed.
December 1 - In Indonesia, Sukarno announces nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses
December 4 - Lewisham train disaster in Britain leaves 92 dead
December 5 - All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia.
December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, the satelite blowing up on the launchpad.

Consumers' Association founded (UK)
Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
Civil Rights Commission established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957
IBM makes FORTRAN scientific programming language available to customers. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
Citroën stops production of its Traction Avant motor car (production started in 1934).
The Piña Colada was invented by Ramon Marrero, a bartender at Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton. [1]