January 1957 calendar

January 1957
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in January 1957.
The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Sir Anthony Eden (Conservative), Pope Pius XII was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on January 1957: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of January 1957?

Events

01 Jan 1957 France returns Saar to become the 10th state of German Federal Republic.
02 Jan 1957 The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
03 Jan 1957 First electric watch introduced, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
04 Jan 1957 Blondie situation comedy premieres on NBC TV
05 Jan 1957 US President Dwight Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle East.
06 Jan 1957 Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show
09 Jan 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper Truth
10 Jan 1957 Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
11 Jan 1957 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
12 Jan 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded.
13 Jan 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate.
14 Jan 1957 Jagadguru Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
15 Jan 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new three-year lease for Ebbets Field.
16 Jan 1957 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights
17 Jan 1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
20 Jan 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open.
21 Jan 1957 KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
22 Jan 1957 Israeli forces withdraw from the Sinai Penisula.
23 Jan 1957 Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River he drowns as a result.
25 Jan 1957 FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for the USSR.
26 Jan 1957 India annexes Kashmir.
27 Jan 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open.
28 Jan 1957 Tonight! America After Dark premieres, with Jack Lescoulie and Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC
30 Jan 1957 US Congress accepts "Eisenhower-doctrine".
31 Jan 1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished.

Famous Birthday

Caroline Princess of Hanover
Katie Couric
American journalist and co-anchor of the Today show since April 5, 1991.
Steve Harvey
American actor, comedian and radio personality.
Diane Barrière-Desseigne
French heiress of casino group Lucien Barrière, from her adoptive father.
Joël Bats
French international football/soccer player, a goalkeeper.
Carole Varenne
Ricardo Darín
Argentinian actor director and screenwriter.
Miquel Barceló
Madolyn Smith Osborne
John Lasseter
Animator.
Gregory Paul Martin
Frank Miller
United States -- Comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns).
Frank Miller
United States -- Comicbook writer (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns).
Patty Loveless
American Country-Western singer and songwriter, whose combination of honky-tonk and rock ’n’ roll made her one of the most popular vocalists...
Vikram Pandit
Keith Chegwin
British television personality and host of "Multi-Colored Swap Shop" from 1976-82, followed by "Cheggers Plays Pop.
Nancy Lopez
American golfer and entrepreneur, a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame member and a world class athlete, the winner of...
Nancy Lopez
American golfer and entrepreneur, a Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Hall of Fame member and a world class athlete, the winner of...
Janick Gers
English guitarist and songwriter (Iron Maiden White Spirit Gogmagog and Gillan).
André Balazs
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Famous Deaths

Mary Carr Moore
Composer, dies at 83.
Ruth Draper
US elocutionist, dies at 67 or 72.
Fred Stein
TV panelist (Live Begins at 80), dies at 88.
Alexander Cambridge
Governor-General (South Africa 1923-31 / Canada 1940-45), dies at age 82.
Arthur L Bowley
English statistician/economist, dies at age 87.
Grigore Gafencu
Romanian minister of Foreign Affairs (1938-39), dies at age 65.
Sean South
and Fergal O'Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid.
Sir Robert Garran
Australian lawyer and early leading expert in Australian constitutional law (Born 1867).
1st Earl of Athlone
British royal, brother of Queen Mary (Born 1874).
Jozsef Dudas
Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (Born 1912).
Kiyoshi Shiga
Japanese physician and bacteriologist (Born 1871).
Ichizo Kobayashi
Japanese industrialist (Born 1873).
James Connolly
Scottish socialist revolutionary, a Catholic, author and industrial union organizer.
Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor, revered by many as the greatest conductor of his time during a career that spanned 70 years.
Al White
Choreographer (NBC Comedy Hour).
Willie Edwards
American murder victim (d. 1957).
Humphrey Bogart
American actor of great notability who won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in "The African Queen," 1951.
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