What Happened in Jan 1957

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