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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

Historical Events Of 1957

• January 23, 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the “Frisbee”.
• January 31, 1957 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• February 22, 1957 – Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Buôn Ma Thuột.
• March 25, 1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” on obscenity grounds.
• April 1, 1957 – The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti-tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama.
• May 3, 1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn, to Los Angeles.
• August 1, 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
• October 14, 1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the Spanish city of Valencia’s history.
• November 17, 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft.
• December 17, 1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Who Were Born On 1957?

• February 6, 1957 – Simon Phillips, English drummer (Toto, Michael Schenker Group, 801, RMS, and PhD)
• March 12, 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer
• April 23, 1957 – Kenji Kawai, Japanese composer and conductor
• May 1, 1957 – Uberto Pasolini, Italian banker, director, and producer
• June 18, 1957 – Miguel Ángel Lotina, Spanish footballer and manager
• September 23, 1957 – Kumar Sanu, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
• November 15, 1957 – Ray McKinnon, American actor and director
• November 27, 1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American lawyer and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Japan
• November 30, 1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• December 19, 1957 – John Gulager, American actor, director, and cinematographer