1957 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1954 1955 1956 – 1957 – 1958 1959 1960

1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.

Events

The Africanized bee is accidentally released in Brazil
The Asian Flu pandemic begins in China
March 10 – Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Indian fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon.
March 25 – Treaty of Rome
November 13 – Flooding in the Po River valley of Italy leads to the flooding also in Venice

Births

January 6 – Nancy Lopez, golfer
January 7 – Nicholson Baker, novelist
January 7 – Katie Couric, television host
January 7 – Julian Solis, world champion boxer
January 11 – Robert Earl Keen, musician, singer
January 15 – Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
January 15 – Julian Sands, actor
January 19 – Katey Sagal, actress, singer & writer
January 22 – Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
January 23 – Earl Falconer, bassist
January 23 – Princess Caroline of Monaco
March 10 - Osama bin Laden, Terrorist, born in Saudi
June 16 - The Ultimate Warrior, American professional wrestler
July 26 – Nana Visitor
September 22 - Nick Cave, Australian singer
December 21 - Ray Romano, American sports writer and actor from Everybody Loves Raymond

Deaths

January 10 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (b. 1889)
January 14 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
January 16 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
February 8 – John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1903)
February 9 – Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent (b. 1868)
February 10 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American writer (b. 1867)
February 18 – Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
February 25 – George "Bugs" Moran, Chicago gangster
March 11 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer
March 16 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
March 17 – Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines
March 25 – Max Ophüls, director, writer
March 29 – Joyce Cary, writer
July 15 – George Cleveland, Canadian actor
August 7 - Oliver Norvell Hardy, American comic-entertainer
September 20 – Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)

Movies released

An Affair to Remember
Aparajito
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Delinquents
A Farewell to Arms
Friendly Persuasion
Giant
Hercules
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
Island in the Sun
Jailhouse Rock
Jamboree
La Grande strada azzurra
Le Notti di Cabiria
Loving You
Nights of Cabiria
Oklahoma!
Old Yeller
Pal Joey
Peyton Place
Quatermass 2
Sayonara
Seven Wonders of the World
The Seventh Seal
The Sweet Smell of Success
Teahouse of the August Moon
The Ten Commandments
The Three Faces of Eve
Twelve Angry Men
What's Opera, Doc?
Young and Dangerous

New books

At Lady Molly's – Anthony Powell
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
Below the Salt – Thomas B. Costain
Blue Camellia – Frances Parkinson Keyes
By Love Possessed – James Gould Cozzens
The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss
The Comforters – Muriel Spark
Compulsion – Meyer Levin
Doomsday Morning – C. L. Moore
Eagle's Nest – Anna Kavan
Eloise in Paris – Kay Thompson
From Russia With Love – Ian Fleming
The Guns of Navarone – Alistair MacLean
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Kids Say the Darndest Things! – Art Linkletter
La Loi – Roger Vailland
Long Day's Journey Into Night – Eugene O'Neill
On the Beach – Nevil Shute
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Rascals in Paradise – James A. Michener
The Scapegoat – Daphne du Maurier
Some Came Running – James Jones
Sugar Street – Naguib Mahfouz
Voltaire in Love – Nancy Mitford
The Wapshot Chronicle – John Cheever
Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing – Robert Paul Smith

Hit songs

"All shook Up" – Elvis Presley
"An Affair To Remember" – Nat King Cole
"Almost In Your Arms (Love Theme From Houseboat) – Sophia Loren
"April Love" – Pat Boone
"Around The World" – Nat King Cole
"Bernadine" – Pat Boone
"Black Slacks" – Joe Bennett
"Blue Starr" – Kay Starr
"Blueberry Hill" – Fats Domino
"Butterfly" – Andy Williams
"Bye Bye Love" – Everly Brothers
"Chances Are" – Johnny Mathis
"Come Go With Me" – Dell-Vikings, one of the first integrated groups
"Crazy Street" – Matys Brothers (some sources say 1958)
"Dark Moon" – Gale Storm
"Deep Purple" – Billy Ward & The Dominoes
"Diana" – Paul Anka
"Everyday" – Buddy Holly
"Fascination" – Nat King Cole
"Fascination" – Jane Morgan & The Troubadors
"Forbidden Fruit" – Anita Ellis
"Four Walls" – Jim Reeves
"Great Balls Of Fire" – Jerry Lee Lewis
"The Greater Sin" – Frankie Laine
"Gunfight At the OK Corral" – Frankie Laine
"Happy, Happy Birthday, Baby" – The Tune Weavers
"Hey, Schoolgirl" – Tom and Jerry
"Honeycomb" – Jimmie Rodgers
"Hoot Owl" – Guy Mitchell
"How High The Moon" – Pat Suzuki
"I'm Sorry" – The Platters
"I'm Walkin" – Fats Domino
"I'm Walking The Floor Over You" – Georgia Gibbs
"It's Not For Me To Say" – Johnny Mathis
"Jailhouse Rock" – Elvis Presley
"Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" – Jimmie Rodgers
"Last Train to San Fernando" – Johnny Duncan (huge hit in the UK)
"Little Darlin' " – Diamonds, a parody cover of a rhythm and blues hit
"The Lonesome Road" – Frankie Laine
"Look Homeward, Angel" – Johnnie Ray
"Love Is Strange" – Mickey & Sylvia
"Love Letters In The Sand" – Pat Boone
"Loving You" – Elvis Presley
"Lucille" – Little Richard
"Maman, la plus belle du monde" – Dalida
"My Special Angel" – Bobby Helms
"Not Fade Away" – Buddy Holly
"Oh Boy" – Buddy Holly
"Old Cape Cod" – Patti Page
"Party Doll" – Buddy Knox
"Peggy Sue" – Buddy Holly
"Pink Champagne" – The Tyrones
"Quand on n'a que l'amour" – Dalida
"Queen Of The Senior Prom" – The Mills Brothers
"Remember You're Mine" – Pat Boone
"Rock-A-Bye Baby Blues" – Brenda Lee
"Rock And Roll Music" – Chuck Berry
"Round and Round" – Perry Como
"Rumble" -- Link Wray, early feedback, only instrumental ever banned
"Searchin' " – The Coasters
"Shangri-La" – The Four Coins
"Silent Lips" – Georgia Gibbs
"So Rare" – Jimmy Dorsey
"Stardust" – Nat King Cole
"Sugar Moon" – Pat Boone
"Sugartime" – McGuire Sisters
"Tammy" – The Ames Brothers
"Tammy" – Debbie Reynolds
"Teddy Bear" – Elvis Presley
"That'll Be The Day" – Buddy Holly
"3:10 To Yuma" – Frankie Laine
"Too Young To Have A Broken Heart" – Gayla Peevey
"Treat Me Nice" – Elvis Presley
"The Twelfth Of Never" – Johnny Mathis
"Up Above My Head" – Johnnie Ray and Frankie Laine
"Wake Up Little Susie" – The Everly Brothers
"Walkin' After Midnight" – Patsy Cline
"When I Fall In Love" – Nat King Cole
"Who Needs You" – The Four Lads
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"-Jerry Lewis
"Witchcraft" – Frank Sinatra
"Wonderful! Wonderful!" – Johnny Mathis
"Why Baby, Why" – Pat Boone
"You Know How It Is" – Frankie Laine
"You Send Me" – Sam Cooke
"Young Blood" – The Coasters, a two-sided hit with "Searchin"'
"Young Love" – Tab Hunter

Images for kids

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Anti-Rightist Campaigns kill more than 500,000 people in China
October 4: Sputnik program launched, the first ever rocket that launched in space.
Laika the dog became the first animal to orbit Earth.
Karen Pence
John Lasseter
Ade Edmondson
Dennis Brown
Danny Antonucci
John Turturro
Eddie Deezen
Qasem Soleimani
Spike Lee
Christopher Lambert
Paul Reiser
Faustin-Archange Touadéra
Daniel Day-Lewis
Richard E. Grant
Kevin Von Erich
Tarek Shawki
Georgi Parvanov
Kelly McGillis
Theo van Gogh
Nellie Kim
Melanie Griffith
Stephen Fry
Ai Weiwei
Gloria Estefan
Brad Bird
Michael Madsen
Bernie Mac
Martin Luther King III
Nancy Cartwright
Dolph Lundgren
Goodluck Jonathan
Andrew Cuomo
Steve Buscemi
Hamid Karzai
Humphrey Bogart
Walther Bothe
Miklós Horthy
Ramon Magsaysay
Gheorghe Tătărescu
William Skelly
Elinor Fair
Joseph McCarthy
Prince Makonnen
Jimmy Dorsey
Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum
Grace Coolidge
Frank Fenton
Washington Luís
Jean Sibelius
Prince George Bagration
Christian Dior
José Patricio Guggiari
Diego Rivera
James Stevenson-Hamilton
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