February 1957 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1957 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
• 02 Feb 1957 Candide closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
• 03 Feb 1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open.
• 04 Feb 1957 First electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse, New York, USA).
• 05 Feb 1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
• 10 Feb 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
• 11 Feb 1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 12 Feb 1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) has been developed.
• 13 Feb 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 14 Feb 1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites.
• 15 Feb 1957 Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister.
• 16 Feb 1957 The ''Toddlers' Truce'', a controversial television close down between 6.00pm and 7.00pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
• 17 Feb 1957 Suez Canal reopens
• 18 Feb 1957 Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
• 20 Feb 1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 versus England, 13 wickets for match.
• 21 Feb 1957 Dodgers (Ft Worth) and Cubs (LA) trade minor league franchises
• 22 Feb 1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson records his 3,500th win.
• 23 Feb 1957 Mr Wonderful closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
• 25 Feb 1957 US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust-exempt professional sport.
• 27 Feb 1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an X: Xavier Cugat Show on NBC

Famous Birthday

• Gul Mohammed

  Indian dwarf (d. 1997).

• Loreena McKennitt

  Canadian songwriter who conveys forlorn Celtic and mystical feeling in her songs.

• Falco (singer)
• Vanna White

  American TV performer and hostess whose claim to fame is standing by a gambling wheel and smiling as it spins on the TV game show, "Wheel Of...

• Rafael Gordillo
• Régis Laspalès

  French comedian and actor best known for his collaboration with Philippe Chevallier.

• Nathalie Ménigon

  French criminal, convicted for acts of terrorism committed while she was a member of the French revolutionary group Action directe.

• John Turturro

  American actor director and screenwriter.

• Azouz Begag

  French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS.

• Buzy (singer)
• Guy Martin

  French chef, who earned three stars from the Guide Michelin.

• Mouna Ayoub
• Ray Winstone

  English actor singer and producer.

• Martin Ziguélé
• Claude Onesta

  French handball coach, responsible for France’s Men’s handball team since 2001.

• Jaco van Dormael
• Christiane Torloni
• Hervé Giraud

  French Catholic bishop, the archbishop of Sens-Auxerre and Prelate of the Mission de France since 5 March 2015.

• Alain Defossé
• Phil Barney

  Algerian-French singer-songwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• John von Neumann

  Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (Born 1903).

• Dedan Kimathi

  Kenyan rebel leader (Born 1920).

• Harry Sothern

  Actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers), dies at 72.

• Kurt von Wolfurt

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Laura Ingalls Wilder

  US author (Little House on Prarie), dies at age 90.

• Grigory Landsberg

  Russian physicist (Born 1890).

• Henry Norris Russell

  American astronomer (Born 1877).

• Friedrich von Paulus

  German field marshal (Stalingrad), dies at age 66.

• Joseph Hardaway

  creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at age 66.

• Leslie Hore-Belisha [Lord Halifax]

  British Minister of Transport, dies at age 63.

• Rudolph Reti

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Mark Aldanov [Mark A Landau]

  Russian/French chemist, dies at age 70.

• Sami Ibrahim Haddad

  Lebanese surgeon (Born 1890).

• Miklos Horthy

  Hungarian admiral (Born 1868).

• Marika Ninou

  Greek singer (Born 1918).

• George ''Bugs'' Moran

  American gangster (Born 1893).

• Walther Bothe

  German physicist awarded the Nobel Prize, along with Max Born, in physics in 1954 for the discovery of the radiation of neutrons.

• Miguel Covarrubias

  Mexican painter and caricaturist, ethnologist and art historian.

• Maurice Garin

  Italian-born French road bicycle racer, best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in...

• Henry N Russell

  co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tab Hunter - Young Love
2. Sonny James - Young Love
3. Elvis Presley - Too Much
4. Frankie Laine - Moonlight Gambler
5. Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat (Day-O)

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues
2. Frankie Vaughan - The Garden Of Eden
3. Tommy Steele & The Steelmen - Singing The Blues
4. Tab Hunter - Young Love
5. Malcolm Vaughan - St Therese Of The Roses