Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1957
January
- January 1 – Saarland joins West Germany.
- January 1 – Irish Republican Army attack on Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon.
- January 1 – Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that will lead to his death a little over two weeks later.
- 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 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 - 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 inaugurated for 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 Planetarium of the Park of Ibirapuera, which was the first Planetarium 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 eight persons killed following the 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
August
September
October
- October 2 - David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in the UK.
- October 4 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. On that same day, Canada's Avro Arrow is unveiled to the public.
- October 9 - Neil H. McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United States.
- October 10 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he was refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
- October 11 - Radio telescope of Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, UK, opened. On that same day, the Orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) was first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- October 21
- October 23 - Morocco begins its invasion of Ifni.
- October 25 - Assassination of a Mafia boss Albert Anastasia in a barber shop in Park Sheraton Hotel.
- October 27 - Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey.
- October 31 - Toyota begins exporting vehicles to the U.S., beginning with the Toyota Crown and the Toyota Land Cruiser
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Environmental change
Births
January-February
- January 1
- January 4 - Charles Allen, Television magnate
- January 6 - Nancy Lopez, American golfer
- January 7
- January 11 - Bryan Robson, English footballer
- January 12 - John Lasseter, American director, writer, and animator
- January 13 - Lorrie Moore, American writer
- January 14 - Anchee Min, Chinese writer
- January 15
- January 17 - Steve Harvey, American actor
- January 21 - Greg Ryan, American soccer coach
- January 22 - Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player
- January 22 - Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
- January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco
- January 24 - Adrian Edmondson, British comedian
- January 27 - Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
- January 29 - Grazyna Miller, Polish poet
- January 30 - Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999)
- February 4
- February 5 - Jackie Woodburne, Australian actress
- February 8 - Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52's)
- February 9 - Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager
- February 16
- February 18 - Vanna White, American game show presenter
- February 19 - Falco, Austrian musician (d. 1998)
- February 20 - Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
- February 27
- February 28 - Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer
March-April
- March 3 - Eric Walters, Canadian author
- March 4
- March 5
- March 9 - Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
- March 10 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born Islamic extremist
- March 10 - Matt Knudsen, American actor
- March 11 - Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
- March 17 - Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
- March 18 - György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
- March 20 - Spike Lee, American film director and actor
- March 29 - Christopher Lambert, American-born actor
- March 31 - Marc McClure, American actor
- April 1
- April 4 - Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish film director
- April 5 - Ivan Corea, Sri Lankan autism campaigner
- April 8 - Henry Cluney, Irish musician
- April 9 - Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
- April 11 - Michael Card, American musician
- April 14 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer
- April 18 - Genie (feral child), "Genie", American feral child
- April 22 - Vladimir Alexeyevich Smirnov, Russian businessman
- April 25 - Eric Bristow, English darts player
- April 27 - Michel Barrette, Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
- April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, English-born actor
May-June
- May 3
- May 10 - Sid Vicious, English bassist (Sex Pistols) (d. 1979)
- May 15 - Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
- May 17 - Gösta Sundqvist, Finnish songwriter and singer (Leevi and the Leavings) (d. 2003)
- May 21
- May 23 - Jimmy McShane (aka. Baltimora) Northern Irish dancer (d. 1995)
- May 22 - Gary Sweet, Australian actor
- May 24 - Walter Moers, German comic artist and writer
- May 26
- May 27 - Siouxsie Sioux, British singer (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
- May 28 - Kirk Gibson, baseball player
- May 29 - Jeb Hensarling, American politician
- June 1 - Dorota Kędzierzawska, Polish film director
- June 2 - King Lizzard, American entertainer
- June 3 - Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player
- June 8 - Scott Adams, American cartoonist
- June 7 - Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer and songwriter
- June 10 - Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
- June 12
- June 13 - Richard Thomas, American actor
- June 15 - Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- June 19
- June 23 - Frances McDormand, American actress
- June 27 - Georgi Parvanov, President of Bulgaria
- June 28 - Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player
July-August
- July 1 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
- July 2 - Bret Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
- July 3 - Laura Branigan, American singer (d. 2004)
- July 9 - Marc Almond, English singer
- July 11 - Peter Murphy, British singer (Bauhaus)
- July 13 - Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director
- July 17 - Fern Britton, British television presenter
- July 21 - George Landress, American songwriter, music producer and sound engineer
- July 23 - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
- July 26
- July 27
- July 29 - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
- August 6 - Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New Jersey
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