November 1957 in History

Events in History

Nov 3 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space

Nov 4 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
Nov 6 Felix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
Nov 7 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
Nov 8 Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
Nov 11 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde, San Francisco
Nov 14 The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested
Nov 15 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000

Nov 16 American murderer and bodysnatcher Ed Gein kills his last victim

Nov 25 US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech

Nov 27 US Army withdraws from Little Rock, Arkansas after Central High School integration

Nov 30 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, kills 8

Nov 4 Tony Abbott, Australian Prime Minister (2013-15), born in London, England
Nov 6 Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist, born in Bremen, Germany
Nov 12 Tim Samaras, American tornado chaser (Storm Chasers),, born in Lakewood, Colorado (d. 2013)
Nov 13 Greg Abbott, American politician, Governor of Texas (2015-), born in Wichita Falls, Texas
Nov 13 Ronald Shusett, author (Project Mankind), born in Hamburg, Germany
Nov 14 Michael J. Fitzgerald, American technical writer and novelist (Song of Falling Leaves), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2021)
Nov 16 Frank Milton "Pete" Higgins II, VP (Microsoft Desktop)
Nov 18 J.C. Watts (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district, in office Jan 3, 1995 - Jan 3, 2003
Nov 18 Seán Mac Falls, Irish-born poet
Nov 19 Sharon Farrah, American WBL guard (NY Stars)
Nov 25 Bob Ehrlich, Jr., former Maryland governor
Nov 27 Caroline Kennedy. American attorney and diplomat ,daughter of JFK & Jackie Kennedy, born in New York City
Nov 27 Kevin O'Connell, American sound re-recording mixer (Hacksaw Ridge), born in Long Island, New York
Nov 27 Terri R Adams, educator (teacher in space)
Nov 30 Joël Champetier, French Canadian author

Nov 7 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (23) weds Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva

Nov 3 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychoanalyst (coined term "sexual revolution", worked with Freud), dies at 60
Nov 4 Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1897)
Nov 7 Roy Worters, Canadian Hockey HOF goaltender (Hart Memorial Trophy 1929; Vezina Trophy 1931; NY Americans), dies at 57
Nov 12 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78
Nov 13 Antonin Zapotocky, Czech communist politician (President of Czechoslovakia 1953-57), dies in office at 72
Nov 14 Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef, South African painter, dies at 71
Nov 20 Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist, dies at 82
Nov 21 Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)