Year 1957 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1957

The year 1957 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1957 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
21 June	Ellen Fairclough was sworn in as Canada's first female cabinet minister.
22 June	The then Soviet Russia launched the R-12 missile for the first time.
27 June	The Medical Research Council of Britain released a report stating that smoking can cause lung cancer. The report was based on 25 years of research.
11 July	Aga Khan, an Islamic religious leader and founding member of the Muslim League, died.
28 July	In Ishaya, Japan, 992 people died due to heavy rains.
29 July	The United Nations formed the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA).
17 September	Malaysia joins the United Nations.
19 September	The US conducted the first underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert.
04 October	The first 83.5 kg heavy satellite in human history was delivered to space by the Soviet Union with Sputnik success. It circled the Earth 1400 times in 92 days and for the first time sent a radio message from space to Earth.
06 October	The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test at Novaya Gemalya.
03 November	The Soviet Union sent a dog named Lyka into space. He was the first dog animal to reach the sky by riding in a spacecraft and circling the Earth.
14 November	Children's Day was officially announced on the occasion of the birthday of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
01 August	The National Book Institute was established.
03 August	Abdul Rahman was elected the new leader of Malaysia under whose leadership Malaysia gained independence from Britain. Abdul Rahman, who was educated in Britain, though he came from the royal family, was always called the leader of the common man.
21 August	The Soviet Union tested the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 Semeyorka.
29 August	The Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, 1957.
03 January	The electric watch was first displayed in Pennsylvania, USA.
05 January	The Central Sales Tax Act came into effect.
25 April	The sodium nuclear reactor was first operated experimentally.
03 January	The Hamilton Watch Company inaugurated its first electric watch.
15 February	Andrei Gromyko became the foreign minister of the Soviet Union.
01 March	Yu Nu became Prime Minister of Atomic Burma.
09 April	Egypt reopened the Suez Canal for trade.
24 May	Anti-American riots broke out in Taipei city of Taiwan.
21 June	John Diefenbaker became the 13th Prime Minister of Canada.
25 July	The University of Waterloo in Canada was established in the city of Ontario.
21 August	US President Dwight D Eisenhower announced a 2-year suspension for nuclear testing.
01 September	The Jamaica railway accident killed 175 people.
11 October	The Jodrell Bank radio telescope opened in Cheshire England.
13 November	Venice was also flooded by the floods of Italy's Po Valley.
04 December	92 people died in London in a Lewisham train accident
14 January	Kripalu Maharaj became the fifth Jagadguru, the supreme spiritual leader of Hinduism.
22 January	New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known asthe 'Mad Bomber', for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughoutthe city.
01 February	Invented by German mechanical engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine ran for the first time atthe research and development department of German manufacturer NSUMotorenwerke AG.
18 February	Kenyan independence leader Dedan Kimathi, who spearheaded theMau Mau Rebellion, was executed by British authorities, who saw him as aterrorist.
17 March	A plane crash on the slope of Mount Manunggal killed PhilippinePresident Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
25 March	West Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg sign the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.
15 May	The UK tested its first hydrogen bomb on 15 May 1957 under Operation Grapl in Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean and then became the UK thermonuclear power. Britain named the first test of H-Bal as a short granite.
10 June	Under the leadership of John Defenbekar, the Progressive Conservative Party won the seats on the completion of 22 years of Liberal Party rule at the Canadian House of Commons at the Federal Party of Commons.
22 June	The Soviet Union launched the R -12 missile for the first time. The deployment of the R-12 missile in Cuba caused the Cuba missile crisis in 1962. A total of 2335 missiles were produced; However, all were destroyed in 1993 under the Soviet and American Arms Control Treaty.
06 July	Althi Gibson became the first black tennis player to win the Wimbledon Championship. She was an American tennis player and also a professional golfer. It was the world's first Grand Slam that was won by any colorful player in history.
11 July	Rajkumar Karim Al-Husaini succeeded in becoming the 49th Imam of Sultan Mahomad Shah Astay Khan.
14 July	Ravya Atiya took her seat to incite the first female MP in the Arab world in the National Assembly of Egypt.
25 July	More than a year after gaining independence from France, Tunisia ended his monarchy, Hussainid dynasty, and became a Republic.
10 August	, W.E. Peterson hopes that the invention of "protective milk" can treat various human diseases such as cancer, rheumatic fever and even normal colds. Doctors have been testing by injecting bacteria in cow's milk to create immunity in those who consume milk. However, many people have not tried this milk.
27 August	Malaya's Constitution came into force, for three days the federation of Malaya gained formal independence from Unitedcade.
31 August	The British have handed over power to their colony of Malaya, yet it will exist as a member of the British Commonwealth.
02 September	President of South Vietnam Ngô NGNH Di? Became the first state head to visit Australia.
22 September	François 'Papa Doctor ' Duvallier was elected as Haiti's populist president before the integration of power and ruled as a dictator for his life.
24 September	Barcelona's camp noou is currently the largest stadium with 99,354 seating capacity in Europe.
29 September	In an explosion at the Soviet nuclear rebellion plant, 74 to 1850 pibes of radioactive material were issued.
03 October	A judge of California's Superior Court ruled that a poem 'Hell ' 'is' social importance' by Alan Honsburg and thus it is Nob.
04 October	The Soviet spacecraft is Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in the Earth, which was launched by an R -7 rocket from the Baconurcosomodrome near the Turetum of Cur SSR.
02 November	People from Levelland, Texas saw unknown light objects with bright lights. Jim Lee, head of the Interplander Space Petrol, then estimated that the UFOs are soon to come in large quantities and those who have doubted the claim will have no option but to agree.
03 November	In the first mission of its kind, a living animal, a dog was launched at the Russian spacecraft, Sputnik 2, to enter the Earth's orbit in space.
03 November	The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, in which the Russian space dog was taken from Earth to the first orbit.
20 December	20 December, the first flight of Boeing 707, the first was a commercially unsuccessful jet aircraft.
23 December	Ian Craig of Australia became the youngest Test cricket captain.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
30 July	Export Risk Insurance Corporation of India Private) Limited was established.
25 August	India won the title of world champion by winning the final of the Polo World Championship in France.
06 May	Rajendra Prasad won the election again on 6 May 1957 with 459,698 votes over Chaudhary Hari Ram and Nagendra Narayan Das, who got 2,672 and 2000 votes respectively. He is the only President to win two terms of India's presidential election.
27 May	The Indian Copyright Act was passed. The Copyright Act, 1957 controls the subject of copyright law in India. The history of copyright law in India can be discovered back in its colonial era under the British. The Copyright Act 1957 was the first copyright law in India and the law has been revised six times since 1957. The most recent amendment was in the year 2012 through the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
15 October	Mira Nair / Director / India
	Naina Lal Kidwai / Indian banker, chartered accountant and business executive / India
01 October	Archana Ramasundram / Police officer / India
01 October	Archana Ramasundaram / Civil Servant / India
01 October	Archana Ramasundram / Civil Servant / India
01 January	Jackie Shroff / Actor / India
08 June	Dimple Kapadia / Actress / India
10 May	Naina Lal Kidwai / Banker / India
11 February	Tina Ambani / Actress / India
11 February	Tina Munim / Actress / India
14 August	Johnny Lever / Actor / India
15 October	Mira Nair / Director / India
16 December	H. D. Kumaraswamy / Politician / India
16 August	R. R. Patil / Politician / India
18 January	Nafisa Ali / Actress / India
27 May	Nitin Gadkari / Politician / India
28 July	Anil Janavijay / Writer / India
NA NA	Labh Janjua / Singer / India
NA NA	Meera Borwankar / Police officer / India
NA NA	Narendra Karmarkar / Scientist / India

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