March 1957 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1957 Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 opens at Winter Garden NYC for 123 performances
• 03 Mar 1957 Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham and Jones
• 04 Mar 1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
• 05 Mar 1957 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley
• 06 Mar 1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from United Kingdom.
• 07 Mar 1957 The United States Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine.
• 08 Mar 1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships.
• 09 Mar 1957 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
• 10 Mar 1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy.
• 13 Mar 1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana, Cuba.
• 14 Mar 1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns.
• 15 Mar 1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb
• 16 Mar 1957 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young
• 17 Mar 1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
• 18 Mar 1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins
• 20 Mar 1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it.
• 22 Mar 1957 Earthquake gives San Francisco, California the shakes.
• 23 Mar 1957 US army sells last homing pigeons.
• 25 Mar 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule.
• 26 Mar 1957 22-year-old Elvis Presley buys Graceland on 3734 Bellevue Boulevard (Highway 51 South) for $US100,000. He and his family move from the house on 1034 Audubon Drive.
• 27 Mar 1957 29th Academy Awards: Around World in 80 Days, Yul Brynner, and Ingrid Bergman win.
• 29 Mar 1957 The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
• 31 Mar 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.

Famous Birthday

• Osama bin Laden

  Saudi Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda (d. 2011).

• Christophe Lambert
• Spike Lee

  Director.

• Shannon Tweed

  Canadian-American model and actress.

• Jean-Yves Lafesse

  French comedian on radio and television, known for his phone hoaxes and its gags from passersby on the street.

• Henri Guaino

  French political speechwriter and politician.

• Elisabeth Bourgine
• Patrick Battiston

  French football player, he belonged successively to the clubs of Metz, Saint-Etienne, Monaco, and Bordeaux.

• Sophie Barjac
• Pervenche Berès

  French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France.

• Theresa Russell

  American actress.

• Joaquim de Almeida

  Portuguese-American actor.

• Paul Reiser

  American actor and screenwriter.

• The Lady Chablis
• Jacques Rocher
• Billy MacKenzie

  rock vocalist (The Associates - "Affectionate Punch").

• Mino Cinélu
• Amanda Plummer

  American actress.

• Marlon Jackson

  American singer and musician (The Jackson 5).

• Stephen Dillane
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Famous Deaths

• Max Ophuls

  German director and writer (Born 1902).

• Fud Livingston

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Admiral Richard E Byrd

  American explorer (Born 1888).

• Constantin Brancusi

  Romanian sculptor (Born 1876).

• Harry E Soref

  inventor (padlock), dies at age 70.

• Lena Ashwell

  English actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at age 84.

• Mosa Pijade

  Yugoslavian Member of Parliament (communist), dies at age 67.

• L Patrick Abercrombie

  English architect, dies at age 77.

• Edouard Herriot

  French politician (Born 1872).

• Othmar Schoeck

  Swiss composer and musician, considered one of the principal composers of his time.

• Evagoras Pallikarides

  Greek-Cypriot freedom fighter (Born 1938).

• Joyce Cary

  Irish author and painter (d. 1957).

• Gene Lockhart

  American actor (Going My Way), dies at age 65.

• Richard E Byrd

  United States -- Explorer (Antarctica), dies at 68.

• Josephine Hull

  American actress and director (d. 1957).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tab Hunter - Young Love
2. Andy Williams - Butterfly
3. Elvis Presley - Too Much
4. Tommy Sands - Teen-Age Crush
5. Perry Como - Round And Round

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Frankie Vaughan - The Garden Of Eden
2. Tab Hunter - Young Love
3. Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues
4. Pat Boone - Don't Forbid Me
5. Guy Mitchell - Knee Deep In The Blues