Significant Historic Events Of 1957

Release date: March 21, 2007  /  Print This     RSS    

January 1 - Legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini suffers the stroke that will lead to his death a little over two weeks later.

January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

January 13 - Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

January 14 - Humphrey Bogart dies of throat cancer at age 57.

February 15 - Andrei Gromyko becomes foreign minister of Soviet Union.

March 1 - Dr. Suess' The Cat in the Hat is published.

April 4 - Amid much glitz and glamour, the Tropicana opens its doors on the Las Vegas Strip.

April 9 - Egypt reopens the Suez Canal for all shipping.

May 3 - Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, New York, to Los Angeles, California.

May 16 – Federal Agent Elliot Ness dies.

July 6 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the very first time, as teenagers, three years before forming the Beatles.

July 16 - United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.

September 4 - The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day."

November 1 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's two peninsulas.

November 3 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space, a dog named Laika.

November 6 - Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens nationally.