1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.

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1957 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1957
MCMLVII
Ab urbe condita2710
Armenian calendar1406
ԹՎ ՌՆԶ
Assyrian calendar6707
Baháʼí calendar113–114
Balinese saka calendar1878–1879
Bengali calendar1364
Berber calendar2907
British Regnal year5 Eliz. 2  6 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2501
Burmese calendar1319
Byzantine calendar7465–7466
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4654 or 4447
     to 
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4655 or 4448
Coptic calendar1673–1674
Discordian calendar3123
Ethiopian calendar1949–1950
Hebrew calendar5717–5718
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2013–2014
 - Shaka Samvat1878–1879
 - Kali Yuga5057–5058
Holocene calendar11957
Igbo calendar957–958
Iranian calendar1335–1336
Islamic calendar1376–1377
Japanese calendarShōwa 32
(昭和32年)
Javanese calendar1888–1889
Juche calendar46
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4290
Minguo calendarROC 46
民國46年
Nanakshahi calendar489
Thai solar calendar2500
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
2083 or 1702 or 930
     to 
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
2084 or 1703 or 931
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Events

January

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Flag of Ghana, the first country in colonial Africa to gain independence

April

May

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Anti-Rightist Campaigns kill more than 500,000 people in China

August

September

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Federation of Malaya gains independence from the British Empire

October

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October 4: Sputnik program begins, the first satellite launched into space.

November

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Laika the dog became the first animal to orbit Earth.

December

1957 Bayankhongor Earthquake in Mongolia kills 30+ people

Date unknown

Births

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Katie Couric
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John Lasseter
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Steve Harvey
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Ade Edmondson
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Frank Miller

February

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Dennis Brown
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Danny Antonucci
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Ainsley Harriott
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam
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John Turturro

March

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Osama bin Laden
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Qasem Soleimani
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Spike Lee
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Lucio Gutiérrez
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Christopher Lambert

April

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Faustin-Archange Touadéra
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Donald Tusk
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Daniel Day-Lewis

May

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Richard E. Grant
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Sid Vicious
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Kevin Von Erich
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Yoshihiko Noda
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Renée Soutendijk
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Siouxsie Sioux

June

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Tarek Shawki
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Frances McDormand
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Georgi Parvanov
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Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

July

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Kelly McGillis
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Stefan Löfven
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Bret Hart
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Theo van Gogh
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Nana Visitor
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Nellie Kim
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Fumio Kishida

August

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Melanie Griffith
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Stephen Fry
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Ivo Josipović
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Ai Weiwei

September

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Gloria Estefan
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Ricardo Montaner
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Hans Zimmer
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Kevin Rudd
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Michael Madsen
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Bongbong Marcos

October

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Bernie Mac
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Paul Kagame
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Nancy Cartwright
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Dan Castellaneta
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Ahmet Kaya

November

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Dolph Lundgren
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Tony Abbott
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Goodluck Jonathan
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Caroline Kennedy

December

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Michael Clarke Duncan
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Steve Buscemi
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Hamid Karzai

Deaths

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Humphrey Bogart

February

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John von Neumann
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Miklós Horthy

March

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Ramon Magsaysay
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Gheorghe Tătărescu

April

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Pedro Infante

May

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Joseph McCarthy
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Eliot Ness

June

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Jimmy Dorsey
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Johannes Stark

July

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Grace Coolidge

August

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Washington Luís

September

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Jean Sibelius

October

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Christian Dior
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Gerty Cori

November

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Diego Rivera
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Prince George of Greece and Denmark

December

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Robert Esnault-Pelterie

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