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Robert Townsend, African-American actor, comedian, director and writer (Hollywood Shuffle) February 7 – Carney Lansford, baseball player and coach; February 8. Robert S. Kapito, business investor; Cindy Wilson, rock singer ; February 14 – Alan Hunter, MTV's first video jockey; February 15. Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, criminal (d. 2008)
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.
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
The official one-day maximum is 8.15 inches on June 15, 1957, but the News-Democrat reported 13.75 inches fell at its office from 9 p.m. June 14 to 9 a.m. June 15.
The operation consisted of 29 explosions, of which only two did not produce any nuclear yield.Twenty-one laboratories and government agencies were involved. While most Operation Plumbbob tests contributed to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also tested air defense and anti-submarine warheads with smaller yields.
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose movies "The Civil War" and "The Vietnam War" chronicled two of the most difficult periods in U.S. history, said in a new interview that the nation currently ...
The series also featured various key events in American and world history, portrayed in dramatic recreations. Events that were covered included the Battle of Hastings, the execution of Joan of Arc, the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernán Cortés, and the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. [4]