June 1957 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1957 1st US runner breaks 4 minute mile
• 02 Jun 1957 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
• 04 Jun 1957 May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs
• 05 Jun 1957 New York narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes.
• 06 Jun 1957 The decision of the Automobile Manufacturers Association (in the USA) to ban race involvement is announced. The ban on racing involvement includes not helping others, not supply pace cars, not publicize any results, not advertise any features of passenger cars that suggest speed.
• 09 Jun 1957 Anthony Eden resigns as British Prime Minister.
• 10 Jun 1957 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
• 12 Jun 1957 Stan Musial plays in 823rd game
• 13 Jun 1957 Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts
• 14 Jun 1957 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois
• 15 Jun 1957 Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 closes at Winter Garden NYC after 123 performances
• 16 Jun 1957 French offensive in Algeria
• 17 Jun 1957 So Rare by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2
• 18 Jun 1957 John Diefenbacker (Conservative) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 21 Jun 1957 Ellen Louks Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister.
• 22 Jun 1957 The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
• 24 Jun 1957 I Love Lucy, last airs on CBS-TV
• 25 Jun 1957 Jonathan Winters Show, last airs on NBC-TV
• 27 Jun 1957 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal Louisiana and Texas, USA.
• 28 Jun 1957 Frick overrules and names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to team
• 29 Jun 1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave USSR communist party

Famous Birthday

• Grace de Capitani
• Frances McDormand

  American actress and producer.

• Maria Conchita Alonso

  Cuba -- Actress (Moscow on the Hudson).

• Dimple Kapadia

  Indian actress.

• Philippe Couillard

  Canadian surgeon and politician 31st Premier of Quebec.

• Fred Vargas

  French historian, archaeologist and writer.

• Bartabas
• Timothy Busfield

  American actor director and producer.

• Scott Adams

  American cartoonist, the creator of Dilbert, one of the most successful syndicated comic strips in history.

• Gabriella Dorio

  Italian runner.

• Jean-François Domergue
• Gilles Benizio

  French film and television actor of Italian descent, best known under the name of Dino as in the 'Shirley et Dino' duo.

• Gabriele Pauli

  German politician, formerly with the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party.

• Astro (UB40)
• Dove Attia
• Jo Vargas
• Jon Gries

  American actor and producer.

• Oscar Sisto
• Jérôme Lambert
• Carol Schlosberg

  American homicide victim; murdered the early afternoon of 3/29/1998 on a beach near Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

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Famous Deaths

• Hermann Buhl

  Austrian mountain climber who climbed with Herrligkoffer.

• Elizabeth S Kingsley

  Double-Crostic puzzle creator.

• Robert Oboussier

  Composer, dies at 56.

• James F "Jimmy" Dorsey

  US orchestra leader, dies at 53.

• Don McBride

  Actor (Mr Clyde-My Friend Flicka), dies at 68.

• Frantisek Kupka

  Czech writer, dies at 85.

• Ede Poldini

  Composer, dies at 88.

• Alfred Doblin

  German writer (Born 1878).

• Claude Farrere

  French writer (Born 1876).

• Dorothy Richardson

  English author and journalist (d. 1957).

• Malcolm Lowry

  English writer (Ultramarine), dies at 48.

• D Richardson

  Writer, dies at 84.

• Jimmy Dorsey

  Shenandoah, Pennsylvania -- Orchestra leader (Stage Show).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
2. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
3. The Diamonds - Little Darlin'
4. Jimmy Dorsey - So Rare
5. Perry Como - Round And Round

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Andy Williams - Butterfly
2. Johnnie Ray - Yes Tonight Josephine
3. Guy Mitchell - Rock-A-Billy
4. Nat 'King' Cole - When I Fall In Love
5. Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap