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1957 in the United States

Events from the year 1957 in the United States.

Events
January , the 34th president of the United States, began his second term on January 20 • January 2 – The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. • January 6 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the third and final time. He is only shown from the waist up, even during the gospel segment, singing "Peace In The Valley". Ed Sullivan describes Elvis thus: "This is a real decent, fine boy. We've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you. You're thoroughly alright." • January 16 – Global hotel brand Marriott opens its first hotel, the Marriott Motor Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. • January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon are inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States and Vice President of the United States respectively. • January 22 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. • January 23 – Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River; he drowns as a result. • January 31 – Pacoima aircraft accident: Three students on a junior high school playground in Pacoima, California, are among the 8 persons killed following a mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet, in the skies above the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. February • February 4 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, , logs its 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance of the fictional Nautilus described in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. • February 17 – The Warrenton Nursing Home fire in Missouri kills 72 people. • February 25 – The "Boy In The Box" is discovered along a sidewalk in Philadelphia. The murder victim is described as Caucasian in appearance and 4 to 6 years old; the boy was identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli in 2022. March buys GracelandMarch 4Standard & Poor's first publishes the S&P 500 Index in the United States. • March 7 – The United States Congress approves the Eisenhower Doctrine on assistance to Communist-threatened foreign regimes. • March 10 – Floodgates of The Dalles Dam are closed, inundating Celilo Falls and ancient Native American fisheries along the Columbia River in Oregon. • March 13 – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery. • March 22 – The 5.7 San Francisco earthquake shook the Bay Area in California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), causing $1 million in losses, one death and forty injuries. • March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first published November 1, 1956), printed in the UK, are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco, on the grounds of obscenity. On October 3, in People v. Ferlinghetti, a subsequent prosecution of publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the work is ruled not to be obscene. • March 26 – 22-year-old Elvis Presley buys Graceland on 3734 Bellevue Boulevard (Highway 51 South) for $100,000. He and his family move from the house on 1034 Audubon Drive. • March 27 – The 29th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Jerry Lewis and Celeste Holm, is held at RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. The ceremony started a trend toward blockbusters and colorful spectaculars, with Michael Anderson's Around the World in 80 Days winning Best Motion Picture chief among them. The film is tied with Walter Lang's The King and I for the most awards with five, while George Stevens' Giant receives the most nominations with ten, including Stevens' second Best Director win. • March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live and in color by CBS, starring Julie Andrews in the title role. The production is seen by millions, but this 1957 version is not telecast again for more than 40 years, when a kinescope of it is shown. April • April 12 – Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl, printed in the United Kingdom, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity. May • May 2 • Iron Liege, at 8–1, wins the Kentucky Derby in one of the most eventful Derbys ever. • Vincent Gigante fails to assassinate mafioso Frank Costello in Manhattan. • May 3 – Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, to Los Angeles. • May 16 – Walt Whitman Bridge opens between Philadelphia and New Jersey. June • June 1 – Three-year-old thoroughbred Gallant Man wins the Peter Pan Stakes, at Belmont Park. • June 15 – Oklahoma celebrates its semi-centennial statehood. A brand new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere is buried in a time capsule (to be opened 50 years later on June 15, 2007). • June 20 – The 1957 Fargo Tornado caused 12 deaths. • June 23 – Royal Ice Cream sit-in • June 25 – The United Church of Christ is formed in Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. • June 27 – Hurricane Audrey demolishes Cameron, Louisiana, killing 400 people. July • July 9 – Elvis Presley's Loving You opens in movie theaters. • 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. August • August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network. • August 21 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing. • August 28 – United States Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) sets the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill. September • September 4 • American Civil Rights Movement – Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the National Guard of the United States to prevent the "Little Rock Nine" African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School. • The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day". • September 5 – Viking Press publishes On the Road by Jack Kerouac. • September 9 • Civil Rights Act of 1957 enacted, setting up the United States Commission on Civil Rights. • Catholic Memorial High School opens its doors for the first time in Boston, Massachusetts. • September 23 – The Academy Award-winning movie The Three Faces of Eve is released. • September 24 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Little Rock Central High School for the Little Rock Nine. • September 26 – West Side Story, a new musical by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. October • October 4 – The sitcom Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS. • October 9 – Neil H. McElroy is sworn in as United States Secretary of Defense. • October 10 • U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. • Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is published. • The Milwaukee Braves defeat the New York Yankees, 4 games to 3, to win their 2nd World Series Title. • October 11 – The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer during Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts. • October 21 – The U.S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt. Hank Cramer of the 1st Special Forces Group. • October 25 – Mafia boss Albert Anastasia is assassinated in a barber shop, at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City. • October 31 – Toyota begins exporting vehicles to the U.S., beginning with the Toyota Crown and the Toyota Land Cruiser November • November 1 • The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's two peninsulas. • The first (westbound) tube of the Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel, linking Norfolk and Hampton, Virginia, opens at a cost of $44 million. • November 6 – Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety. • November 7 – Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. • November 8 – The film Jailhouse Rock opens across the U.S. to reach #3, and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety. • November 14 – Apalachin Meeting: American Mafia leaders meet in Apalachin, New York, at the house of Joseph Barbara; the meeting is broken up by a curious patrolman. • November 16 • Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin. • Oklahoma celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood. • Notre Dame beats the Oklahoma Sooners 7–0 to end the longest winning streak in college football history at 47. • November 25 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a stroke. December goes online • December 2 – Shippingport Atomic Power Station goes onstream; commercial operation begins on May 26, 1958. • December 6 – Vanguard TV3, the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite, fails with the rocket blowing up on the launch pad. • December 18 • A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois. • The Bridge on the River Kwai is released in the U.S. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Additional Oscars go to Alec Guinness (eh Actor) and David Lean (eh Director), among others. This is Lean's first Oscar for directing. • December 19 – Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, is premièred on Broadway. • December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time. • December 22 – The CBS afternoon anthology series The Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U.S. television for the first time. UndatedOperation Dropshot, an all-out U.S. war with the Soviet Union, is expected to be triggered by the Soviet takeover of Western Europe, the Near East and parts of Eastern Asia, as it was anticipated in 1949. OngoingCold War (1947–1991) ==Births==
Births
January |125x125px • January 1Mark Hurd, American businessman (d. 2019) • Karen Pence, American educator, and teacher, Second Lady of the United StatesJanuary 4Patty Loveless, American country music singer • January 6Freddie Glenn, American spree killer and rapist • Nancy Lopez, American golfer • January 7Nicholson Baker, American novelist • Katie Couric, American television host • Steve Janaszak, American professional ice hockey player • January 8Dwight Clark, American football player (d. 2018) • David Lang, American composer • January 12John Lasseter, American director, writer and animator • January 13Ralph DeLoach, American football player (d. 2022) • Claudia Emerson, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner in 2006 (d. 2014) • Lorrie Moore, American writer • January 15Turk Schonert, American football player (d. 2019) • Mario Van Peebles, African-American actor and director • January 17Steve Harvey, African-American comedian, television host, radio personality and actor • January 21Greg Ryan, American soccer coach • January 22Brian Dayett, American baseball player (d. 2025) • January 26Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (d. 2003) • January 27Frank Miller, American comic book writer • January 30Payne Stewart, American golfer (d. 1999) FebruaryFebruary 6Kathy Najimy, actress and comedian • Robert Townsend, African-American actor, comedian, director and writer (Hollywood Shuffle) • February 7Carney Lansford, baseball player and coach • February 8Robert S. Kapito, business investor • Cindy Wilson, rock singer (The B-52's) • February 14Alan Hunter, MTV's first video jockey • February 15Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, criminal (d. 2008) • Jake E. Lee, guitarist and songwriter • Jimmy Spencer, race car driver and sportscaster • February 16LeVar Burton, African-American actor • February 18Vanna White, American game show presenter (Wheel of Fortune) • February 20Dean Zelinsky, American guitar designer, maker and luthier. Founder of (Dean Guitars) and (Dean Zelinsky Guitars) • February 26David Beasley, lawyer and politician, 113th Governor of South CarolinaJoe Mullen, ice hockey player and coach • Keena Rothhammer, swimmer • February 27Ralph Cox, ice hockey player • February 28John Turturro, actor, writer and director MarchMarch 4Jim Dwyer, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 2020) • Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver • Mykelti Williamson, African-American actor • March 6Eddie Deezen, American voice actor, comedian • March 12Val Demings, African-American politician • Marlon Jackson, African-American singer • March 13David Peaston, American singer (d. 2012) • March 15Park Overall, American film and television actress • March 20Vanessa Bell Calloway, African-American actress • John Grogan, American journalist • Spike Lee, African-American film director and actor • Theresa Russell, American actress • Amy Aquino, American television, film, and stage actress • March 23Teresa Ganzel, American comedian and actress • Amanda Plummer, American actress • March 24Jack Edwards, American play-by-play announcer • March 26Leeza Gibbons, American television personality • March 28Paul Eiding, American actor and voice actor • Harvey Glance, African-American Olympic athlete (d. 2023) • March 29Christopher Lambert, American actor • March 31Marc McClure, American actor AprilApril 1Denise Nickerson, actress (d. 2019) • April 8Fred Smerlas, American football player and radio host • April 11April 11Michael Card, Christian musician • Jim Lauderdale, bluegrass musician • April 12Vince Gill, singer and songwriter • Adam Parfrey, journalist and editor (d. 2018) • Suzzanne Douglas, African-American actress (d. 2021) • April 14Richard Jeni, comedian (d. 2007) • April 16Essex Hemphill, African American poet and gay activist (d. 1995) • April 17Afrika Bambaataa, DJ and producer • April 18Genie, feral child • April 21Jesse Orosco, baseball player • April 23Jan Hooks, actress and comedian (d. 2014) • April 27Robert Curtis Brown, television, film and stage actor • April 29Timothy Treadwell, environmentalist and filmmaker (d. 2003) MayMay 3William Clay Ford Jr., automobile executive • May 4Iona Morris, actress • May 15Kevin Von Erich, professional wrestler • May 11Lynn J. Rothschild, American biologist and astrobiologist • May 16Joan Benoit, Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner • Bob Suter, professional ice hockey player (d. 2014) • May 18Lionel Shriver, author and journalist • May 20Stewart Nozette, astronomer • May 21Bruce Buffer, ring announcer • Judge Reinhold, actor • May 24John Harrington, American professional ice hockey player • John G. Rowland, American politician, author, and convicted felon • May 28Kirk Gibson, American baseball player • May 29Bobby Hamilton, stock car racing driver (died 2007) • Jeb Hensarling, politician • Ted Levine, actor • May 31Jim Craig, professional ice hockey player JuneJune 5Charles Nolan, fashion designer (died 2011) • June 6Jessica Diamond, artist • June 8Scott Adams, cartoonist (Dilbert) (died 2026) • June 12Timothy Busfield, American actor • June 14Suzanne Nora Johnson, lawyer and businesswoman • Mona Simpson, novelist • June 21Michael Bowen, American actor • June 23Frances McDormand, American actress • June 24Doug Jones, American baseball player (died 2021) JulyJuly 3Shan Goshorn, American Cherokee artist (d. 2018) • Ken Ober, American actor and game show host (d. 2009) • Faye Resnick, American TV personality • July 8James E. Malone Jr., American politician (d. 2024) • July 9Kelly McGillis, American actress • July 10Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war activist • July 12Rick Husband, American astronaut (d. 2003) • Buddy Foster, American actor • July 13Cameron Crowe, American writer and film director • July 15Cecile Richards, American women's rights activist (d. 2025) • July 16Faye Grant, American actress • July 21Jon Lovitz, actor and comedian • July 24Jack O'Callahan, professional ice hockey player • July 26Nana Visitor, actress • July 27Matt Osborne, professional wrestler (d. 2013) • July 31Paul Provenza, comedian AugustAugust 1Taylor Negron, actor (d. 2015) • August 2Mojo Nixon, singer, lyricist and actor (d. 2024) • August 5Clayton Rohner, actor • August 6Jim McGreevey, 52nd Governor of New JerseyAugust 9Melanie Griffith, American actress • August 11Richie Ramone, American rock drummer • August 14Tony Moran, American actor and producer • August 16Laura Innes, American actress and director • Phil Murphy, American politician • August 18Denis Leary, comedian and actor • August 19Martin Donovan, actor • August 22Holly Dunn, country music singer and songwriter (d. 2016) • August 24Kristina Gjerde, American oceanographer (d. 2025) • August 28Rick Rossovich, American actor • Daniel Stern, American actor • August 30Manu Tuiasosopo, American football player • August 31Gina Schock, American drummer (The Go-Go's) SeptemberSeptember 3Earl Cureton, American basketball player (d. 2024) • September 8Heather Thomas, American actress and activist • September 11Jeff Sluman, American golfer • Jeh Johnson, American politician, 4th Secretary of Homeland Security • September 13Vinny Appice, drummer • September 15Brad Bird, American animator and director • September 18Mark Wells, American professional ice hockey player (d. 2024) • September 21Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor • September 22Mark Johnson, American professional ice hockey player and coach • Ted Williams, announcer, radio personality, and voice-over artist • September 24Brad Bird, American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and actor • September 27Peter Sellars, theatre director • September 28Bill Cassidy, Senator from Louisiana, physician and politician • September 29Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian • September 30Fran Drescher, American actress OctoberOctober 4Bill Fagerbakke, American voice actor • October 5Bernie Mac, African-American comedian and actor (d. 2008) • October 7Marcus Lamb, American televangelist (d. 2021) • Michael W. Smith, American Christian musician • October 12Renee Chenault-Fattah, journalist • October 14Kenny Neal, guitarist • Greg Tate, writer and musician (d. 2021) • October 15Stacy Peralta, American director and skateboarder • October 16Jim Hodges, American installation artist • October 18Gary Gensler, American banker • October 21Steve Lukather, American musician • October 23Martin Luther King III, African-American human rights advocate and community activist • October 24John Kassir, American actor and comedian • October 25Nancy Cartwright, actress • October 26Bob Golic, American football player • October 29Dan Castellaneta, American actor • October 30Kevin Pollak, American actor • October 31Lauren Berlant, American cultural theorist (d. 2021) • Brian Stokes Mitchell, American actor and singer • Shirley Phelps-Roper, American political and religious activist • Robert Pollard, American musician NovemberNovember 1Peter Ostrum, American child actor and veterinarian • November 5Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (d. 1984) • November 6Cam Clarke, American actor and singer • Lori Singer, American actress and musician • November 7Christopher Knight, American actor • November 9Eric Sievers, American football player (d. 2024) • November 10George Lowe, American voice actor and comedian (d. 2025) • November 12Brad Sigmon, American convicted murderer (d. 2025) • November 13Greg Abbott, American politician • Roger Ingram, American jazz musician, author, educator, trumpet designer • November 14Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (d. 1998) • November 15Kevin Eubanks, American jazz guitarist • November 19Tom Virtue, American actor • November 22Don Newman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018) • November 23William Kaelin Jr., American cellular biologist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019 • November 24Denise Crosby, American actress • November 26Kevin Kamenetz, American politician (d. 2018) • November 27Caroline Kennedy, American author and attorney DecemberDecember 1Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011) • December 4Eric S. Raymond, American open source software advocate • December 6Tom Brinkman, American politician • Andrew Cuomo, American politician, 56th Governor of New York • Dana Sue Gray, American serial killer • December 9Donny Osmond, American pop singer • December 10Michael Clarke Duncan, African-American actor (d. 2012) • December 12Sheila E., American percussionist, singer, author, and actress • December 13Steve Buscemi, American actor and comedian • December 14Tim Cone, American professional basketball coach in the Philippines • December 15Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress • December 19Kevin McHale, American basketball player • December 20Joyce Hyser, American actress • December 21John Geddert, American gymnastic coach (d. 2021) • Tom Henke, American baseball player • Ray Romano, American actor and comedian • December 23Steve Silberman, American writer and editor (d. 2024) • December 27Greg Mortenson, American humanitarian and author • December 29Bruce Beutler, American immunologist and geneticist • December 30Matt Lauer, American newscaster ==Deaths==
Deaths
January 14Humphrey Bogart, film actor (born 1899) • January 16Arturo Toscanini, Italian-born orchestral conductor (born 1867) • January 26Helene Costello, actress (born 1906) • William Eythe, actor (born 1918) • Enoch J. Rector, cinema technician, inventor, and film director (born 1863) • February 2Marian Cruger Coffin, landscape architect (born 1876) • Julia Morgan, architect and engineer (born 1872) • February 5Ben Hardaway, film director (born 1895) • February 10Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (born 1867) • February 16William M. Acton, lawyer and politician (born 1876) • February 25Bugs Moran, gangster (born 1893) • B. P. Schulberg, film producer (born 1892) • March 11Richard E. Byrd, explorer (born 1888) • March 12Josephine Hull, actress (born 1877) • March 29Laura Bowman, actress and singer (born 1881) • March 31Gene Lockhart, Canadian-American actor (born 1891) • April 3Ned Sparks, Canadian-born actor (born 1883) • April 8Dorothy Sebastian, actress (born 1903) • May 1Grant Mitchell, actor (born 1874) • May 2Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from 1947 to 1957 (born 1908) • May 10Annie Turnbo Malone, African American millionaire businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist (born 1869) • May 13Robert Alfred Theobald, admiral (born 1884) • May 16Eliot Ness, Prohibition agent (born 1903) • May 29James Whale, English director and actor (born 1889) • June 1Russell Hicks, actor (born 1895) • June 4Mary Hay, actress and dancer (born 1901) • June 12Jimmy Dorsey, big band leader (born 1904) • June 13Bruno Albert Forsterer, Marine Sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1869) • June 15Norina Matchabelli, actress (born 1880) • July 3Judy Tyler, actress (b. 1932) • July 8Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (born 1879) • July 10Julia Boynton Green, poet (born 1861) • July 15George Cleveland, Canadian-American actor (born 1885) • July 24Frank Fenton, actor (born 1906) • August 7Oliver Hardy, comic film actor (born 1892) • September 2Bobby Myers, race car driver (killed in racetrack accident) (born 1927) • September 21Margaret Ashmore Sudduth, educator, editor and temperance advocate (born 1859) • Henry E. Warren, inventor (born 1872) • October 13Erich Auerbach, German philologist, literary critic and comparative scholar (born 1892) • October 25Albert Anastasia, Italian American gangster (born 1902) • October 29Louis B. Mayer, Belarusian-born film studio head (born 1885) • November 1Charlie Caldwell, sports player and coach (born 1901) • November 17Cora Witherspoon, actress (born 1890) • November 29Erich Korngold, Austrian-born composer (born 1897) • December 2Harrison Ford, silent film actor (b. 1884) • December 10Maurice McLoughlin, tennis player (born 1890) • December 24Norma Talmadge, silent film actress (born 1894) • December 28Hilda Vaughn, actress (born 1898) ==See also==
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