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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 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 6, 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• April 10, 1957 – The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
• June 21, 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first female Cabinet Minister.
• August 1, 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
• September 24, 1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
• October 1, 1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
• October 10, 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world’s first major nuclear accident.
• October 29, 1957 – Israel’s prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel’s parliament, the Knesset.

Who Were Born On 1957?

• February 13, 1957 – Tony Butler English bass player (Big Country and On the Air)
• March 11, 1957 – The Lady Chablis, American drag queen performer
• March 18, 1957 – Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut
• March 31, 1957 – Alan Duncan, English businessman and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
• April 17, 1957 – Susan Roman, Canadian voice actress
• June 13, 1957 – Roy Cooper, American lawyer and politician, 48th North Carolina Attorney General
• August 17, 1957 – Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor
• August 25, 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor and director
• October 17, 1957 – Lawrence Bender, American actor and producer
• October 31, 1957 – Shirley Phelps-Roper, American lawyer and activist