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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.
1957 – Eisenhower Doctrine, wherein a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state; 1957 – Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction
1957 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1957 disestablishments in the United States (39 C, 7 P) 1957 establishments in the United States (54 C, 32 P) A.
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1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
In 1957, Dr. François Duvalier came to power in an election in Haiti. He later declared himself president for life, and ruled until his death in 1971. In 1958, the military dictatorship of Venezuela was overthrown. In 1959, Alaska (3 January) and Hawaii (21 August) became the 49th and 50th states respectively of the United States.