What Happened in 1957

Nissan Datsun 220 is First Produced

The popular and economical Datsun/Nissan compact pickup truck was produced in Japan from 1955 and imported to the United States, Australia,... Read more

Theodor Seuss Geisel Founds Beginner Books

By 1939, she realized acting was not her future, so she moved to New York, joined the advertising agency of McCann Erickson and began writing radio... Read more

Mercedes-Benz SL-Class is First Produced

The Mercedes-Benz SL is a roadster manufactured by Mercedes since 1954. The designation SL derives from the German Sport Leicht, or Sport Light —... Read more

Maya Angelou records her first album Miss Calypso

This reissue was probably motivated by the exotica-space age pop revival. The cover, after all, features Angelou draped in a slip of a red dress,... Read more

Inland Steel Building Built

The Inland Steel Building, located at 30 W. Monroe Street in Chicago, is one of the defining commercial high-rises of the post-World War II era of... Read more

Ford Skyliner is First Produced

The Ford Skyliner was an innovative full-size automobile with a retractable hardtop produced by the Ford Motor Company in the late 1950s. Based on... Read more

Ford Ranchero is First Produced

The Ford Ranchero was a sedan-based pickup truck produced between 1957 and 1979. Unlike a pickup truck, the Ranchero was adapted from a station... Read more

Ford Del Rio is First Produced

The Ford Del Rio was a full-size station wagon produced by the Ford Motor Company in the United States for model years 1957 and 1958. The model was... Read more

Ford C-Series is First Produced

The Ford C-Series was a medium-duty cab over truck built by the Ford Motor Company between 1957 and 1990. While advertisers boasted of its... Read more

Chrysler Royal is First Produced

The Chrysler Royal was an automobile produced by the Chrysler division of the Chrysler Corporation between 1937 to 1942 and 1946 to 1950. The Royal... Read more

Albert Camus is Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness... Read more

U.S. scientist Charles Keeling measures carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

U.S. scientist Charles Keeling sets up stations to measure carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere at the South Pole and at Mauna Loa,... Read more

Seagram Building Completed

The Seagram Building is a skyscraper, located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was... Read more

Jackie Robinson retires from baseball

Jackie Robinson decided to retire from baseball after the 1956 season. He accepted a job offer from the Chock Full O' Nuts restaurant chain in New... Read more

T. S. Eliot Marries Esme Valerie Fletcher

Valerie Eliot, née Fletcher, who in middle age resembled Margaret Thatcher, was not a conventionally pretty girl, but in letters written in the... Read more

Dwight Eisenhower's second inauguration

January 20 occurred on a Sunday, so the President took the oath in the East Room at the White House that morning. The next day he repeated the... Read more

Northeast Airlines Flight 823 Crashes

After what was described as a normal takeoff roll, the aircraft lifted off. Upon establishing a positive rate of climb, the landing gear and wing... Read more

"Funny Face" Is Released

Funny Face is an American musical film released in 1957 in VistaVision Technicolor, with assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin. The film was... Read more

"The Seventh Seal" Is Released

The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, about the journey of a medieval knight... Read more

'The Cat In The Hat' is Published

Ted thought it would be a simple matter to turn out a book, but seven months and much throwing of the manuscript across the room [another "thinking... Read more

North Carolina Beats Kansas in Final Four

The 1957 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 23 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of... Read more

29th Academy Awards

During the 29th Academy Awards, the regular competitive category of Best Foreign Language Film was introduced, instead of only being recognized as... Read more

Doug Ford wins the 21st Masters Tournament

Doug Ford first played The Masters in 1952, and he last played it in 2001. That's 49 times playing The Masters, which was the record for most... Read more

Montreal Canadiens win Stanley Cup

The 1957 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the defending champion Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins. The Canadiens... Read more

'The Town' Is Published

The Town (1957) is the second novel in the Snopes trilogy that began with The Hamlet (included in Novels 1936–1940). Here the rise of the rapacious... Read more