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4 April – 1957 Defence White Paper presented by Duncan Sandys, Minister of Defence, introduces major cuts in conventional land and air forces. [12] 10 April – Royal Court Theatre premieres John Osborne's The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier in the title role. [13] 11 April – The UK Government agrees to allow Singapore its independence. [14]
2 June - BBC Television broadcasts the final of the 1957 European Amateur Boxing Championships live from Prague.For the first time, the BBC broadcasts an event held in a Communist state, which was also relayed to the rest of the Eurovision network in other Western European countries.
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The Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in the United Kingdom's history, and one of the worst in the world, ranked in severity at level 5 out of 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. [1] The fire was in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale site on the north-west coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield ...
September 21 – Perry Mason on CBS (1957–1966), The Polly Bergen Show on NBC; September 22 – Maverick on ABC (1957–1961) September 28 - Dick and the Duchess on CBS (1957-1958) [5] October 2 – Educated Evans (UK) on BBC (1957–1958) October 3 The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom on ABC (1957–1960) The Real McCoys on ABC (1957–1962), then ...
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles. For narratives about this time period, see Post-war Britain (1945–1979), Social history of post-war Britain (1945–1979),
December 4 – The Lewisham rail crash in London, UK, leaves 92 people dead. [33] 1957 Bayankhongor Earthquake in Mongolia kills 30+ people December 5 – All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from Indonesia. [34] December 6 – The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails, when the Vanguard rocket blows up on the launch pad. [35]