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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.
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 ...
6 May – In Melbourne Tonight, TV-Series 1957–1970 (GTV-9's first major production). Pick-A-Box, TV-Series 1957–1971 (first broadcast as a radio program in 1948) The Tarax Show, TV-Series 1957–1970 (sponsored by Tarax, a soft drink bottling company from Melbourne.
John Braine's novel Room at the Top.; B 2 FH, an astrophysics paper by British astronomers Geoffrey Burbidge, Margaret Burbidge and Fred Hoyle and American astronomer William Fowler describing the synthesis of the lightest elements through nuclear processes in stars.
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
BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.
On June 20, 1957, a violent and deadly F5 tornado commonly known as the Fargo tornado, struck the north side of Fargo, North Dakota [1] as well as the area north of Moorhead, Minnesota. It was part of a family of five devastating tornadoes produced by one supercell over the course of 3.5 hours, although they are listed as one continuous tornado.
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