October 1957 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of the USSR attack
• 02 Oct 1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
• 03 Oct 1957 Willy Brandt elected Mayor of West Berlin
• 04 Oct 1957 Leave It to Beaver, debuts on CBS
• 05 Oct 1957 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal
• 06 Oct 1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
• 07 Oct 1957 American Bandstand premieres
• 08 Oct 1957 Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes US Minister of Defense
• 09 Oct 1957 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.
• 10 Oct 1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
• 11 Oct 1957 US Air Force Colonel Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn is killed in the crash of a Twin Beech plane in the Philippines.
• 12 Oct 1957 Mask & Gown closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 39 performances
• 13 Oct 1957 German Democratic Republic recalls the East Mark and issues new currency.
• 14 Oct 1957 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.
• 15 Oct 1957 Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
• 16 Oct 1957 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia
• 17 Oct 1957 Copper & Brass opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 36 performances
• 19 Oct 1957 Damn Yankees closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 1,022 performances
• 20 Oct 1957 Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w / o losing a wkt
• 21 Oct 1957 Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team
• 22 Oct 1957 Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany
• 23 Oct 1957 First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3.
• 24 Oct 1957 Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
• 25 Oct 1957 Russian Minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
• 26 Oct 1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting.
• 27 Oct 1957 Celal Bayar re-elected President of Turkey
• 28 Oct 1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 29 Oct 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
• 30 Oct 1957 Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
• 31 Oct 1957 Jamaica opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 558 performances

Famous Birthday

• Catherine Ringer

  French singer, musician, songwriter, dancer, choreographer and actress.

• Florence Arthaud

  French sailor (skipper), born to Jacques (dead in 2014), director of the Arthaud publishing house: he specialized in mountain books (based...

• Clémentine Célarié

  French actress singer and director.

• Vittorio Rambaldi
• Dawn French

  Welsh comedian,actress and screenwriter.

• Paul Kagame

  Rwandan soldier and politician 6th President of Rwanda.

• Julian Cope

  English singer-songwriter (The Teardrop Explodes Crucial Three Black Sheep Brain Donor and Queen Elizabeth).

• Bernie Mac

  American actor and comedian (d. 2008).

• Didier Roustan

  French sports journalist specializing in football reporting.

• Nilda Fernández
• Rémi Laurent
• Arturo Brachetti

  Italian mime, a fantastic talent.

• Russell Simmons

  American entrepreneur.

• Steve Lukather

  American singer-songwriter guitarist and producer (Toto).

• Mira Nair

  Indian-American actress director and producer.

• Bill Fagerbakke

  American actor.

• Jeff Barnd

  American newscaster who joined NBC affiliate WBRE-TV as a reporter, and who became the morning co-anchor in 4/1989.

• Pamela Lynn Gergely
• Jean-Michel Espitallier
• Dwight Lowry

  American baseball player.

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Famous Deaths

• Christian Dior

  French fashion designer (Born 1905).

• Christian Dior

  French fashion designer (Born 1905).

• Rosemarie Nitribitt

  German call girl (Born 1933).

• Albert Anastasia

  Italian mafia chief, gangster and killer.

• Maria "Mary" Beekman

  Actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73.

• Umberto "Albert" Anastasia

  US gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55.

• Frederick Burton

  Actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86.

• N Kazantzakis

  Writer.

• Carl Natanael Berg

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Louis B Mayer

  American film producer (Born 1885).

• John HA Eman

  Founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70.

• Christian Dior

  French couturier; the creator of the "New Look" in Parisian design after WWII.

• Jacques Fesch

  French homicide; the killer of a police officer while fleeing from a hold-up on 25 February 1954, 5:45 PM, Paris.

• Nikos Kazantzakis

  Greek philosopher and author (d. 1957).

• Karl Genzken

  German physician (d. 1957).

• Edward Plunkett

  18th Baron of Dunsany Irish author poet and playwright (d. 1957).

• Fred Beebe

  American baseball player and coach (d. 1957).

• Ernst Grafenberg

  German physician and scientist (Born 1881).

• Vere G Childe

  British archaeologist / prehistorian, dies at 65.

• Henry C van de Velde

  Flemish Painter / architect, dies at 94.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Debbie Reynolds - Tammy
2. Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb
3. The Everly Brothers - Wake Up Little Susie
4. Paul Anka - Diana
5. Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Paul Anka - Diana
2. Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand
3. The Crickets - That'll Be The Day
4. Johnny Duncan & The Blue Grass Boys - Last Train To San Fernando
5. Debbie Reynolds - Tammy