August 1957 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1957 Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam
• 03 Aug 1957 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman
• 04 Aug 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching (with 4 wins that season) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship (also a record) these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.
• 05 Aug 1957 American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage ''baby-boomers'' by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
• 08 Aug 1957 USSR offers Syria economic / military aid
• 09 Aug 1957 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12
• 11 Aug 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open
• 15 Aug 1957 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
• 17 Aug 1957 Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
• 18 Aug 1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open
• 19 Aug 1957 US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
• 20 Aug 1957 Simply Heavenly opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
• 21 Aug 1957 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan
• 22 Aug 1957 Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 25 Aug 1957 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
• 26 Aug 1957 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile.
• 27 Aug 1957 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
• 28 Aug 1957 US Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill.
• 29 Aug 1957 US Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957.
• 30 Aug 1957 US senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights
• 31 Aug 1957 Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain

Famous Birthday

• Melanie Griffith

  American actress, tall (5'9") and voluptuous, who started as a model before her screen debut in "Night Moves," 1975.

• Carole Bouquet

  French model, actress and comedienne.

• Stephen Fry

  English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, director, and activist.

• Inès de la Fressange
• Denis Leary

  American actor, seen in "The Matchmaker" and "Wag the Dog" as well as the acclaimed cable television series, "Rescue Me.

• Georges Tron

  French politician, who served as Secretary of Public Affairs in the Cabinet of François Baroin but resigned after accusations of sexual...

• Hervé Dubuisson
• Ai Weiwei

  Chinese sculptor and activist.

• Robin Cousins

  British skater, the reigning Olympic figure-skating champion in 1980 winning a Gold Medal.

• Rick Rossovich

  Palo Alto, California -- Actor (Top Gun, Roxanne, ER).

• Daniel Stern

  Movie Actor.

• Zeljko Ivanek

  Lujubljana, Yugoslavia -- Actor (Mass Appeal).

• Butch Vig

  American drummer songwriter and producer (Garbage and Spooner).

• Johnny Cunningham
• Phranc (singer)
• Isaach de Bankole
• Bernard Langer
• Martin Donovan

  American actor and director.

• Juergen Hoppmann
• Tom Candiotti

  American pro baseball pitcher.

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Famous Deaths

• Oliver Hardy

  American actor and famous comedian.

• Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski

  Composer, dies at 41.

• Albert Edward Sammons

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Heinrich Otto Wieland

  German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.

• Harald Ulrik Sverdrup

  Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (Born 1888).

• "Black Jack" Bouvier

  Father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer.

• Carl Clauberg

  German Nazi doctor (Born 1898).

• David Bomberg

  English painter illustrator and academic (d. 1957).

• Carl-Gustaf Rossby

  Swedish-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1957).

• Nels Stewart

  Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1902).

• Irving Langmuir

  American chemist and physicist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
2. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
3. The Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love
4. Debbie Reynolds - Tammy
5. Jimmy Dorsey - So Rare

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
2. Lonnie Donegan - Gamblin' Man / Putting On The Style
3. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
4. Russ Hamilton - We Will Make Love
5. The Diamonds - Little Darlin'