What were News headlines 1957?

Answer 1

Jan. 7, British PM Anthony Eden resigned in the wake of the Suez crises.

Jan 13, The Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

Jan 14, Humphrey Bogart dies in Los Angeles at age 57.

Jan 20, President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon are sworn in for their second terms.

Feb 10, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference formed.

Feb 17, The Suez Canal reopened. (The canal had been closed during the 'Suez Crisis' in 1956, when during political moves President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser had ships deliberately sunk to block the canal, until the UN agreed on a peace resolution in Nov. 1956)

Feb 27, Mao delivers a speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People."

Mar 6, The former British African colonies of the Gold Coast and Togoland became the independent state of Ghana. Among other dignitaries to attend the independence ceremonies was Martin Luther King, Jr. with Vice President Richard Nixon.

Mar 9, An 8.1 earthquake shakes the Andreanof Islands, Alaska.

Mar 13, The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.

Mar 13, Bloody battles follow an anti-Batista demonstration in Havana, Cuba.

Mar 25, Treaties establishing the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community are signed in Rome.

Apr 7, The last of New York City's electric trolleys completes its final run from the city's borough of Queens to Manhattan.

Apr 13, Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in US is temporarily halted.

Apr 15, Saturday mail delivery was restored after Congress gives the Post Office $41 million.

Apr, Chairman Mao has 300,000 of intellectuals jailed or sent to the countryside to do manual labor.

May 6, The last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV.

May 15, The 1st British hydrogen bomb is detonated on Christmas Island in South Pacific.

May 22, South Africa government approves race separation in universities.

May 28, The National League approves the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants baseball teams to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Jun 8, Chairman Mao orders an "anti-rightist" witch hunt and Deng Xiaoping executed it.

Jun 17, The Tuskegee boycott begins as Blacks boycott city stores.

Jun 26, Hurricane Audrey hits Louisiana earlier than expected, leaving at least 390 people dead with 192 missing in Louisiana and Texas.

Jun 30, The American occupation headquarters in Japan is dissolved.

Jul 1, The International Geophysical Year, an 18-month global scientific study, begins with 12 nations establishing over 60 stations in Antarctica.

Jul 6, Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title.

Jul 26, Pres. Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala is assassinated.

Jul 26, USSR launches the first intercontinental multistage ballistic missile.

Jul 31, The Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations designed to detect Soviet bombers approaching North America, goes into operation.

Jul, Two 'unarmed' nuclear bombs are dropped off Cape May N.J. by a cargo plane that develops engine trouble. They have never been found.

Aug 5, "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark in Philadelphia, makes its network debut on ABC-TV.

Aug 26, Ford Motor Company reveals the Edsel, its latest luxury car.

Aug 28, Sen Thurmond begins a 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill.

Aug 29, Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Aug 31, The Federation of Malaya (Malaysia) gaines independence from Britain. Malaysia establishes itself as a constitutional monarchy.

Sep 2, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

Sep 9, President Eisenhower signs into law the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction.

Sep 9, Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School is dynamited.

Sep 14, Pres. Eisenhower meets with Arkansas Gov. Faubus in Rhode Island. Gov. Faubus agrees to cooperate with the president's decisions regarding the high schools of Little Rock.

Sep 19, The United States conducts its first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.

Sep 21, "Perry Mason," starring Raymond Burr, premiers on CBS-TV.

Sep 23, Nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas are forced to withdraw because of a white mob outside.

Sep 25, 300 members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division stand guard while nine black children, forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, AR because of unruly white crowds, are escorted to class.

Oct 1, The motto "In God We Trust" begins appearing on US paper currency.

Oct 4, The television series "Leave It to Beaver" premiers on CBS.

Oct 4, The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made space satellite.

Oct 10, President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, the finance minister of Ghana, after the official is refused service in a Dover, DE restaurant.

Oct 17, Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit the White House.

Nov 8, Romance of the Skies, a Pan Am luxury airliner enroute to Hawaii from San Francisco, crashes into the Pacific Ocean.

Nov 25, President Eisenhower suffers a slight stroke.

Nov 27, Army withdraws from Little Rock, AR after Central HS integration.

Dec 5, NYC becomes the 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market with its Fair Housing Practices Law.

Dec 6, AFL-CIO members vote to expel the International Brotherhood of Teamsters because of racketeering by its executives, including union president Dave Beck and vice president James R. Hoffa.

Dec 6, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit fails as Vanguard TV3 rises about four feet off a Cape Canaveral, FL launch pad before crashing back down and exploding.

Dec 20, Elvis Presley gets his draft notice to join US Army for National Service.