President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Vice President: Richard M. Nixon
Governor of New York:
U.S. Population: 170,000,000
Cost of first class stamp: 3 cents
Most significant Events
• Sept. 25, 1957: Nine Negro children attend a full day of classes at Central High School in Little Rock, AK. They are under the protection of one thousand members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army.
The Little Rock Nine are:
Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Echford, Ernest Green, Thelma
Mothershed, Melba Patillo Beals,
Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas
and Carlotta Walls.
•
10/04/1957:
Sputnik 1 is launched.
11/03/1957: Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), is
launched.
Your Hits of the Year 1957 - Peter Tripp
10) Young Love
9) Party Doll
8) Around The World
7) Dianna
6) So Rare
5) It's Not For Me To Say
4) Tammy
3) Little Darling
2) Love Letters In The Sand
1) Click here for the answer
Popular Television Shows
American Bandstand goes national on August 5, 1957
December Bride
General Electric Theater
Gunsmoke
Have Gun Will Travel
I've Got A Secret
Tales of Wells Fargo
The Danny Thomas Show
The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Restless Gun
You Bet Your Life
Charles Van Doren wins $129,000 on the quiz show Twenty One.
TV Premiers
"Bachelor
Father" with John Forsythe
"Perry Mason" with Raymond
Burr
"Wagon Train"
"Jack Paar's Tonight show"
"Leave It to Beaver"
Movies Released
A
Farewell To Arms
The
Pride and the Passion
Les Girls
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Island in the Sun
Peyton Place
The Young Stranger
I was a Teenage Werewolf
Jailhouse Rock
Sayonara
Bridge on the River Kwai
Academy Awards
Best Picture: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Best Actor: Alec Guinness - "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
Best Actress: Joanne Woodward - "The Three Faces of Eve"
Golden Globe Awards
Picture - Drama
The Bridge On the River Kwai
Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Les Girls
Actor In A Leading Role - Drama
Alec Guinness in
The Bridge On the River Kwai
Actress In A Leading Role - Drama
Joanne Woodward in
The Three Faces Of Eve
Actor In A Supporting Role
Red Buttons in
Sayonara
Actress In A Supporting Role
Elsa Lanchester in
Witness For the Prosecution
Director:
David Lean
The Bridge On the River Kwai
Actor In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
Frank Sinatra in
Pal Joey
Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy
Kay Kendall in
Les Girls
Tony Awards
Musical: My Fair Lady. Book and lyrics by Alan Jay
Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe.
Play: Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene
O'Neill.
Actor (Dramatic): Fredric March (Long Day's Journey Into
Night)
Actor (Musical): Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady)
Actress (Dramatic): Margaret Leighton (Separate Tables)
Actress (Musical): Judy Holliday (Bells Are Ringing)
Director: Moss Hart (My Fair Lady)
Music Man,"
starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway
The publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road introduces the words
"beat" and "beatnik" into the American popular consciousness.
Theodore Geisel writes Cat in the Hat as Dr. Seuss!
(Dr. Seuss is dead, he dead I said, all that dirt is covering his head.)
Nobel Prize for Literature
Albert Camus for "his important literary production, which with clear-sighted
earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times."
Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music
| FICTION | (No Award) |
| DRAMA | Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill |
| HISTORY | Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917-192O by George F. Kennan |
| BIOGRAPHY OR AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy |
| POETRY | Things of This World by Richard Wilbur |
| MUSIC | Meditation on Ecclesiastics by Norman Dello Joio |
Popular Books Fiction
"By Love Possessed" James
Gould
"Peyton Place Grace Metalious.
"Compulsion" Meyer Levin.
"Blue Camellia" Frances Parkinson Keyes.
"Eloise in Paris" Kay Thompson.
"The Scapegoat" Daphne du Maurier.
"On the Beach" Nevil Shute
"Below the Salt" Thomas B. Costain
"Atlas Shrugged" Ayn Rand.
"Promises: Poems 1954—56" Robert Penn Warren
"Rally Round the Flag, Boys!" Max
Shulman.
"Kids Say the
Darndest Things!" Art Linkletter.
"The FBI Story" Don Whitehead.
"Stay Alive All Your Life" Norman Vincent Peale.
"To Live Again" Catherine Marshall.
"Baruch: My Own Story" Bernard M. Baruch.
"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" Jean Kerr.
"The Day Christ Died," Jim Bishop
"Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing" Robert Paul Smith.
AFL-CIO votes to expel the Teamsters.
For the first time, U.S. consumption of margarine overtakes that of butter.
The Frisbee is nationally marketed.
FORTRAN, the first high-level
computer-programming language is introduced by IBM.
European Common Market created.
U.S. conducts first underground nuclear test.
US army sells last
homing pigeons.
1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower.
1st National Curling Championship held.
Joseph McCarthy,
Humphrey Bogart, Langston Hughes,
Oliver Hardy and
Jimmy Dorsey
Die.
Fran Drescher and Spike Lee are born.