May 1957 calendar

Events

• 01 May 1957 Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord
• 02 May 1957 Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello in Manhattan.
• 03 May 1957 Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.
• 04 May 1957 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2.
• 05 May 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open.
• 06 May 1957 Last broadcast of I Love Lucy on CBS-TV
• 07 May 1957 Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles
• 10 May 1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow
• 11 May 1957 Gabriel Paris forms Government of Colombia.
• 12 May 1957 Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies at age 71.
• 14 May 1957 New Girt in Town opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 432 performances
• 15 May 1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden - Billy Graham launched a crusade
• 16 May 1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
• 17 May 1957 School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education
• 18 May 1957 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2.
• 19 May 1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian Government.
• 21 May 1957 French Government of Mollet resigns.
• 22 May 1957 KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 24 May 1957 Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan.
• 25 May 1957 Shinbone Alley closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances
• 26 May 1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open.
• 27 May 1957 Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.
• 28 May 1957 WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 29 May 1957 New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast.
• 30 May 1957 Real Madrid wins second Europe Cup 1 in Madrid, Spain.
• 31 May 1957 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island

Famous Birthday

• Sid Vicious

  British musician, a punk rocker with the "Sex Pistols.

• Véronique Jannot

  French singer and actress discovered by Alain Delon with whom she played in "The Medic" directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, in 1979.

• Michel Cymes

  French physician of Jewish Polish descent, ENT specialist, and radio-TV presenter ("Le Magazine de la Santé", "Allô Docteurs", with Marina...

• Israeli Declaration of Independence
• Julie Pietri
• Claudie Haigneré
• Siouxsie Sioux

  English singer, songwriter, musician and producer.

• Fanny Cottençon

  French actress.

• Jean-Pierre Bouvier

  French climber and climbing instructor, who made the first ascent of Chimpanzodrome (7c+) in Saussois in 1981, one of the most difficult...

• Judge Reinhold
• Astrid Fallon

  Belgian pro astrologer, author of "The Graphic Ephemeris 1920-2040," 1998, “Planetary Cycles at a glance”, 2001, and of the annual “Rainbow...

• Frédéric Bouraly
• Marie Myriam

  French pop singer of Portuguese descent, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977 with "L'Oiseau et l'Enfant".

• Ted Levine

  American actor.

• Michael Cretu

  Romanian-German keyboard player and producer (Moti Special and Enigma).

• Gary Sweet

  Australian sex symbol and actor who first came to the public eye in the ten-part series, "Bodyline," starting in July 1984.

• Alastair Campbell

  English journalist and author.

• Gilles Pélisson
• Olivia Pascal
• Richard E Grant

  British actor.

• See more

Famous Deaths

• Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Johannes C B "Jan" Sluyters

  Dutch painter, dies at 75.

• Grant Mitchell

  Actor (Great Lie, Laura, Cairo, Conflict), dies at 82.

• Shalva Azmayparashvili

  Composer, dies at 54.

• Toivo R Pekkanen

  Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy).

• Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Heinrich Campendonk

  German painter/wood carver/glasier, dies at age 67.

• Ezio F Pinza

  Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Metropolitan Opera), dies.

• George Bacovia [Vasiliu]

  Romanian poet/composer (Plumb), dies at age 75.

• Sir Ernest de Silva

  Sri Lankan Philanthropist (Born 1887).

• Alexander Vertinsky

  Russian poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor (Born 1889).

• Stefanos Sarafis

  Greek Greek Resistance figure (Born 1890).

• Joseph McCarthy

  American politician who, as a Senator representing Wisconsin in 1946, was the chairman of various investigating committees commonly known as...

• Ezio Pinza

  Italian bass (Born 1892).

• Marie Vassilieff

  Russian-French painter (d. 1957).

• Eliot Ness

  American federal agent (Born 1903).

• Michael Fekete

  Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957).

• Alfonso de Portago

  Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (Born 1928).

• Leopold Staff

  Ukrainian-Polish poet and academic (d. 1957).

• See more

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Elvis Presley - All Shook Up
2. The Diamonds - Little Darlin'
3. Perry Como - Round And Round
4. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
5. Buddy Knox - Party Doll

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap
2. Andy Williams - Butterfly
3. Tab Hunter - Young Love
4. Guy Mitchell - Rock-A-Billy
5. Harry Belafonte - The Banana Boat Song