Memories Of 1957

By Kerry Butters

Memories of 1957 by Kerry Butters is a reference Book from that year, included in it are things in the News, Famous Births and Deaths etc. Great for birthday presents. Look out for other years in the series or maybe buy your own birth year. Look out for other years in the series by the same Author. 1916 - Present. Ideal for Birthdays, Anniversaries Etc.

Front Cover - Laika the space dog.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Book Publishing
• Release date: Jul 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834152133

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decade.

Events

January

January 2 – The San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge to form the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.

January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

January 4 – After 69 years the last issue of Collier's Weekly

magazine is published in the United States.

January 5 – Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having handled the ball in Test cricket.

January 6 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the 3rd and final time. He is shown only from the waist up, even during the gospel segment, singing Peace In The Valley. Ed Sullivan describes Elvis thus: This is a real decent, fine boy. We've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you. You're thoroughly all right.

January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns.

January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar.

January 13 – Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.

January 14 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.

American screen actor Humphrey Bogart dies aged 57 in California after a long battle with cancer.

January 15 – Release, in Japan, of the film Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth.

January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool as a jazz club.

January 20 Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States.

Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956).

The New York City Mad Bomber, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

January 23 – Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River; he drowns as a result.

January 26 – The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

January 31 –