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The 1957 meeting occurred in the aftermath of the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, at which Joseph Stalin had been denounced, and revolts in Hungary and Poland. [8] The 1957 meeting sought to reaffirm communist unity, demarcating against the revisionism represented by the Yugoslav party and the hardliners resisting " de ...
May 2 – Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from 1947 to 1957 (born 1908) May 10 – Annie Turnbo Malone, African American millionaire businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist (born 1869) May 13 – Robert Alfred Theobald, admiral (born 1884) May 16 – Eliot Ness, Prohibition agent (born 1903) May 29 – James Whale, English director and actor ...
The 1957 State of the Union Address was given by Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, on Thursday, January 10, 1957, to the 85th United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [3] It was Eisenhower's sixth State of the Union Address.
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, celebrates its 60th anniversary on Friday.. The success of the original park, which opened July 17, 1955, sparked the 1971 opening of Walt Disney World in ...
A dramatic shock to Americans' self-confidence and its technological superiority came in 1957, when the Soviets beat the United States into outer space by launching Sputnik, the first earth satellite. The space race began, and by the early 1960s the United States had forged ahead, with President Kennedy promising to land a man on the moon by ...
A series of meetings between Sicilian Mafia and American Mafia members were allegedly held at the Grand Hotel et des Palmes in Palermo, Sicily, between October 12–16, 1957. Also called the 1957 Palermo Mafia summit, the gathering allegedly discussed the transatlantic illegal heroin trade between the American and the Sicilian Mafia.
Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States [1] that held that the First Amendment protected radical and reactionary speech, unless it posed a "clear and present danger".
King also called for new civil rights legislation to aid in the dissolution of discrimination problems in the South. He made particular reference to the Civil Rights Commission and MSU President John A. Hannah, who was appointed chairperson of the Civil Rights Commission in January 1957 by President Dwight Eisenhower, serving until September 1969.