What Happened in 1957
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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"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
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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