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Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1957
January
- January 1 - The Saarland joins West Germany.
- January 1 - An Irish Republican Army attack on the Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon.
- January 1 - Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that leads to his death a little over 2 weeks later.
- January 2 - The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
- January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
- January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly Magazine is published.
- January 5 - Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball in test match cricket.
- January 6 - Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the 3rd and final time. He is only shown from the waist up, even during the gospel segment, singing "Peace In The Valley". Ed Sullivan describes Elvis thus: "This is a real decent, fine boy. We've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you. You're thoroughly all right."
- January 9 - British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns.
- January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- January 11 - The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
- January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
- January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.
- January 20 - Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.
- January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt 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.
- January 26 - The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
- January 31 - Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California are among the 8 persons killed following a mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet, in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles.
February
March
Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence
April
May
June
July
- July - The International Geophysical Year begins.
- July - The University of Waterloo is founded in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
- July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the very first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, 3 years before forming the Beatles.
- July 9 - Elvis Presley's Loving You opens in theaters.
- July 11 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.
- 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, with Habib Bourguiba its first president. * July 28 - The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of The Thaw, kicks off in Moscow.
- July 28 - Heavy rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan kill 992.
- July 28 - A strong earthquake shakes Mexico City and Mexican port city Acapulco.
- July 29 - The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
August
September
October
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