The Yera 1957
History and Politics
Anthony Eden resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britian and is succeeded by Harold Macmillan.
President Eisenhower formulates "Eisenhower Doctrine" for protection
of Middle Eastern nations from Communist aggression.
Isearli forces withdraw from Siani Peninsula and hand over Gaza strip to UN forces; UN reopens Suez Canal to
navigation; US resumes aid to Isreal; King Hussein proclaims martial law in Jordan.
"The Six" sign Rome Treaty; beginning of the Common Market.
Britian explodes thermonuclear bomb in central Pacific.
Franco announces that the Spanish monarchy will be restored on his death.
International Atomic Energy Agency established.
Queen Elizabeth visits Canada and US and addresses UN General Assmbly.
Joseph M McCarthy, US Senator dies.
Teamsters Union is expelled from AFL-CIO when Jimmy Hoffa refuses
to expel criminals and union refuses to expel Hoffa.
President Eisenhower appoints Charles E. Whittaker to the US Supreme Court.
Science, Technology, Growth
USSR launches Sputnik I and II, first earth satellites.
Giberellin, a growth-producing hormone, is isolated.
Nobelium (element 102) discovered in Stockholm.
John Von Neumann, US mathematician dies.
Irving Langmuir, US physicist dies.
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, US polar explorer dies.
International Geophysical Year is proclaimed by 67 cooperating nations.
Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michign, world's longest suspension bridge, opens.
Daily Life
Cities with over one million inhabitants number 71 as against 16 in 1914.
Fort Salmanassar in Nimrud-Kalash (dating from 840 B.C.) is excavated.
Christian Dior, Paris fashion designer dies.
Wolfenden Report on homosexuality and prostitution published in Britian.
Regular London-Moscow air service inaugurated.
Desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Ark; President Eisenhower sends paratroopers to forestall violence.
Tidal wave follows hurricane Audrey into coasts of Texas and Louisiana, 530 dead and missing.
Major John Glenn Jr. sets speed record from California to New York in a jet; 3 hours 23 minutes 8.4 seconds.
Carmen Basilio defeats "Sugar" Ray Robinson to win middleweight boxing championship.
New York Giants baseball club moves to San Francisco; Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angles.
US Lawn Tennis Singles won by Malcolm Anderson, women's won by Althea Gibson.
Iowa defeats Oregon State in Rose Bowl, 35-19.
Milwaukee (NL) defeats New York (AL) in World Series, 4-3.
Bobby Fischer, 13 years old, emerges as chess champion.
"Beat" and "beatnik" take hold as new words to describe the
"Beat Generation" first treated in Kerouac's "On the Road".
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