• January 2 - San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge.
• January 3 - Hamilton Watch Company[?] introduces the first electric watch.
• January 4 - After 69 years the last issue of Colliers[?] magazine is published.
• January 10 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.
• January 13 - Wham-O[?] Company produces the first Frisbee
• January 16 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool
• January 22 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956)
• January 22 - The New York City "Mad Bomber[?]," George P. Metesky[?], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut[?] and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
• March 6 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and Togoland[?] become the independent Republic of Ghana.
• March 8 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal
• March 13 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery.
• March 25 - Treaty of Rome (patto di Roma) establishes the European Economic Community (EEC); see EU
• April 5 - First elected government of Kerala. CPI[?] won the elections and EMS Namboodiripad became the first chief minister of united Kerala.
• June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Canada's thirteenth prime minister.
• July - International Geophysical Year begins
• October 4 - launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
• November 1 - Michigan's Mackinac Bridge opened.
• December 6 - First US attempt to launch a satellite fails, blowing up on the launchpad
• Project Orion begins, a U.S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.
• Civil Rights Commission[?] established under the Civil Rights Act

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1957 in film
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Peyton Place
• 1957 in literature
  • The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
• 1957 in music
  • Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records[?]. Their first single, "Hey, Schoolgirl," backed with "Dancin' Wild," hit #49 on the Billboard pop charts.
• 1957 in sports
  • July 6 - Althea Gibson[?] wins the Wimbledon championships becoming thethe first black athlete to do so.
• 1957 in television
  • Jack Paar[?] becomes the permanent host for NBC's Tonight Show

Births:

• January 6 - Nancy Lopez[?], golfer
• January 7 - Katie Couric[?], television host
• January 15 - Mario Van Peebles[?], actor, director
• January 15 - Julian Sands[?], actor
• January 22 - Mike Bossy[?], ice hockey player
• January 23 - Earl Falconer[?], bassist
• January 23 - Princess Caroline of Monaco[?]
• February 6 - Kathy Najimy[?], actress, comedian
• February 6 - Robert Townsend[?], comedian, actor, director, producer
• February 8 - Cindy Wilson[?], singer, of The B-52s[?]
• March 10 - Osama Bin Laden, terrorist?[?]
• February 16 - LeVar Burton, actor
• February 16 - James Ingram[?], singer
• February 18 - Vanna White[?], game show presenter
• February 19 - Falco, singer (+ 1998)
• March 10 - Osama bin Laden, terrorist
• March 12 - Steve Harris[?], musician. See Iron Maiden.
• March 20 - Spike Lee, film director, actor
• March 29 - Christopher Lambert, actor
• March 30 - Paul Reiser, actor
• April 29 - Daniel Day-Lewis, actor
• May 7 - Sinjin Smith[?], volleyball player
• May 10 - Sid Vicious, bassist of The Sex Pistols (+ 1979)
• June 11 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, jazz musician
• August 24 - Stephen Fry, English comedian, author, and actor
• September 1 - Gloria Estefan, singer
• September 12 - Rachel Ward[?], actress
• December 9 - Donny Osmond[?], singer
• December 20 - Billy Bragg, singer
• December 30 - Matt Lauer[?], NBC newscaster

Deaths:

• January 14 - Humphrey Bogart, actor
• February 8 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician
• February 9 - Miklos Horthy, Hungarian admiral and longtime Regent
• February 10 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author
• February 18 - Henry Norris Russell, astronomer
• March 11 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, explorer
• March 16 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
• March 17 - Ramon Magsaysay[?], President of the Philippines[?]
• March 25 - Max Ophüls, director, writer
• May 2 - Joseph McCarthy, US senator
• May 9 - Ezio Pinza[?], opera singer
• May 14 - Marie Vassilieff, artist
• May 16 - Eliot Ness, federal agent
• August 7 -Oliver Hardy, American actor
• August 19 - David Bomberg, painter
• September 1 - Dennis Brain, French horn player
• September 20 - Jean Sibelius, composer
• September 21 - Haakon VII of Norway
• October 25 - Edward Plunkett, Baron Dunsany, Irish author.
• November 24 - Diego Rivera, painter
• November 30 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor
• Joyce Cary[?], author
• Malcolm Lowry, author

Awards/Prizes

Winner of Eurovision Song Contest 1957: Corry Brokken[?] with Net Als Toen

Nobel Prizes:

• Physics - Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee
• Chemistry- Lord Alexander R Todd[?]
• Medicine - Daniel Bovet[?]
• Literature - Albert Camus
• Peace - Lester Bowles Pearson