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1957 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2030. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1957 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1957
- January 11, 1957 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
- January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- March 8, 1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
- April 1, 1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti-tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
- April 9, 1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
- April 10, 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
- July 6, 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
- August 27, 1957 – Malaysia’s constitution comes into force.
- September 19, 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
- September 29, 1957 – Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
Who Were Born On 1957?
- January 9, 1957 – Phil Lewis, American singer-songwriter
- March 15, 1957 – Park Overall, American actress
- March 23, 1957 – Lucio Gutiérrez, Ecuadorian politician, 52nd President of Ecuador
- April 24, 1957 – Boris Williams, French-English drummer (The Cure, Thompson Twins, and Babacar)
- June 15, 1957 – Seppo Pääkkönen, Finnish actor
- June 19, 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
- June 28, 1957 – Mike Skinner, American race car driver
- August 4, 1957 – Brooks D. Simpson, American historian and author
- August 14, 1957 – Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (d. 1986)
- October 4, 1957 – Russell Simmons, American businessman, founded Def Jam Recordings and Phat Farm