Historical Events in 1957

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• Jan 1 23rd Orange Bowl: #20 Colorado beats #19 Clemson, 27-21
• Jan 1 23rd Sugar Bowl: #11 Baylor beats #2 Tennessee, 13-7

• Jan 1 43rd Rose Bowl: #3 Iowa beats #10 Oregon State, 35-19
• Jan 1 An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA's Operation Harvest.

• Jan 1 France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep

• Jan 1 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-mo year)

• Jan 3 1st electric watch, the Hamilton Electric 500, introduced by the Hamilton Watch Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Jan 4 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
• Jan 4 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000

• Jan 6 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
• Jan 7 Algerian militant and National Liberation Front member Djamila Bouhired sets off a bomb in an Algiers cafe killing 11 civilians, precipitating the Battle of Algiers
• Jan 9 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR
• Jan 9 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
• Jan 9 Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR
• Jan 9 Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR

• Jan 11 Mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber.
• Jan 11 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.

• Jan 13 7th NFL Pro Bowl, LA Memorial Coliseum: Western Conference beats Eastern Conference, 19-10; MVPs: Bert Rechichar, Baltimore Colts, K; Ernie Stautner, Pittsburgh Steelers, DT
• Jan 13 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate
• Jan 14 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher)

• Jan 15 Brooklyn Dodgers extend their 5-year lease on Ebbets Field by signing a new 3-year lease with real estate developer Marvin Kratter; club moves to Los Angeles the next year
• Jan 16 3 US B-52 bombers leave California for 1st non-stop around the world flights
• Jan 16 Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool, England, home of many performances by The Beatles
• Jan 17 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
• Jan 18 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
• Jan 19 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• Jan 20 Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election
• Jan 20 Morton Gould's "Declaration" premieres in Washington, D.C.
• Jan 21 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Jan 22 Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
• Jan 22 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
• Jan 23 Indian nationalist V. K. Krishna Menon begins the longest ever speech defending India's stand on Kashmir at the UN - 8 hours over 2 days
• Jan 23 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee flying disc (originally called the "Pluto Platter" - until 1958)
• Jan 25 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
• Jan 26 Dutch Pacifist Socialist Party forms
• Jan 26 Francis Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres at La Scala, in Milan
• Jan 26 India annexes Kashmir
• Jan 26 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves

• Jan 30 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine"
• Jan 31 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.
• Jan 31 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
• Feb 1 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
• Feb 1 Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the rotary Wankel engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
• Feb 1 Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
• Feb 1 MLB club owners accept new 5-year pension plan proposed by the players, but reject request to increase minimum salary from $6,000 to $7,500
• Feb 2 "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
• Feb 2 UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
• Feb 4 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)

• Feb 11 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting

• Feb 12 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
• Feb 13 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans with Martin Luther King Jr. as President
• Feb 14 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
• Feb 15 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister

• Feb 16 The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6 and 7 pm, abolished in the United Kingdom
• Feb 17 A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.
• Feb 18 Dedan Kimathi, a Kenyan freedom fighter is executed by the British colonial government.
• Feb 20 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
• Feb 21 Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
• Feb 22 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
• Feb 22 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
• Feb 23 "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
• Feb 23 The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar

• Feb 25 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
• Feb 27 Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals
• Feb 27 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files)

• Feb 28 Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
• Mar 1 "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances
• Mar 1 Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor
• Mar 1 KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
• Mar 3 2nd Eurovision Song Contest: Corry Brokken for Netherlands wins singing "Net als toen" in Frankfurt
• Mar 3 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham & Jones of Great Britain
• Mar 3 Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of Canada
• Mar 3 Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins of the USA
• Mar 3 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (US)
• Mar 4 Gold Coast officially changes its name to Ghana ahead of its independence
• Mar 4 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.

• Mar 5 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)

• Mar 6 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
• Mar 8 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
• Mar 8 Egypt reopens the Suez Canal after Israel withdraws from occupied Egyptian territory
• Mar 8 Israeli troops leave Egypt
• Mar 8 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• Mar 9 4th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats South Carolina, 95-75
• Mar 9 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska
• Mar 10 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
• Mar 11 Charles Van Doren finally loses on US TV game show "Twenty-One" after winning $129,000 - later revealed to be fixed
• Mar 12 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions

• Mar 14 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns

• Mar 16 England clinches its 15th Five Nations Rugby Championship, the Grand Slam, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup with a 16-3 win over Scotland at Twickenham, London

• Mar 16 Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
• Mar 17 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted

• Mar 18 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins
• Mar 19 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score
• Mar 20 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it

• Mar 22 "All Shook Up" single released by Elvis Presley
• Mar 22 Earthquake shakes San Francisco
• Mar 22 Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian

• Mar 23 US army sells last homing pigeons
• Mar 25 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
• Mar 25 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)

• Mar 28 1st National Curling Championship held
• Mar 30 111th Grand National: Fred Winter aboard 20/1 bet Sundew wins by 8 lengths from Wyndburgh

• Apr 1 Trial begins in Budapest against participants of the Hungarian Uprising of October 1956
• Apr 1 World's biggest glass oven used
• Apr 1 WYES-TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Apr 3 Samuel Beckett's play "Endgame" premieres in London as a French language production
• Apr 3 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• Apr 4 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony premieres French Radio National Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Paris
• Apr 6 Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• Apr 6 NYC ends trolley car service
• Apr 6 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)

• Apr 7 Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run

• Apr 10 John Osborne's "Entertainer" premieres in London
• Apr 10 Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns
• Apr 10 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• Apr 11 Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

• Apr 11 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off & land vertically
• Apr 12 Jim Spalding set a 2,088 pin nine-game bowling record
• Apr 12 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• Apr 13 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
• Apr 13 11th Tony Awards: "Long Day's Journey into Night" (play) & "My Fair Lady" (musical) win
• Apr 13 Musical "Shinbone Alley", starring Eartha Kitt, opens at Broadway Theater NYC; runs for 49 performances
• Apr 13 Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
• Apr 14 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
• Apr 15 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley in 2:20:05; course length changed
• Apr 15 KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Apr 15 Saturday mail delivery restored in the US after Congress gives the Post Office $41 million
• Apr 16 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Dickie Moore has a goal and 2 assists as Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 5-1 for a 4-1 series victory
• Apr 16 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan
• Apr 20 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway

• Apr 22 All NL baseball teams integrate, John Irwin Kennedy becomes the 1st Black player for the Philadelphia Phillies
• Apr 24 Chicago Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
• Apr 25 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
• Apr 25 Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government
• Apr 25 WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, PA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Apr 26 Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens
• Apr 28 4th National Film Awards (India): "Kabuliwala" wins the Golden Lotus
• Apr 28 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Montgomery CC: Patty Berg wins her 6th WO by 1 stroke from Wiffi Smith
• Apr 28 WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Apr 29 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated at Fort Belvoir, Virginia
• May 1 Flevo Boys Football Club is established in Emmeloord, the Netherlands

• May 1 US gives Poland credit of $95 million
• May 1 Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km

• May 4 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
• May 4 Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show, cancelled after 4 episodes

• May 5 Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria

• May 6 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV

• May 7 Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald

• May 10 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon
• May 10 Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Piano concerto premieres, played by his son Maxim at his graduation concert at Moscow's conservatory
• May 11 Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia
• May 14 Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town" opens at 46th St Theater, NYC; runs for 432 performances

• May 16 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae

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