| January 1 | Benjamin Britten's ballet "Prince and the Pauper," premieres in London |
| January 1 | France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep |
| January 2 | San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge |
| January 3 | 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster Pa |
| January 4 | "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS) |
| January 4 | Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 |
| January 5 | Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to New York Giants |
| January 5 | Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East |
| January 6 | Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show |
| January 6 | Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia |
| January 9 | British premier Anthony Eden resigns |
| January 9 | Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR |
| January 9 | Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" |
| January 9 | Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR |
| January 9 | Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR |
| January 10 | Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain |
| January 10 | Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates |
| January 12 | Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded |
| January 13 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate |
| January 13 | Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open |
| January 13 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10 |
| January 13 | Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee |
| January 15 | Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field |
| January 16 | 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights |
| January 16 | Cavern Club (Beatle's) opens on Matthews Street in England |
| January 17 | 9-county commission recommends creation of BART |
| January 17 | Cavern Club opens (home of Beatles' 1st appearance) |
| January 18 | 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes |
| January 19 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| January 20 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| January 20 | Gomulka wins Poland's parliamentary election |
| January 20 | Morton Gould's "Declaration," premieres in Washington, D.C. |
| January 21 | KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| January 22 | Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula |
| January 22 | Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested |
| January 25 | FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for U.S.S.R. |
| January 26 | Bernanos and Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites," premieres |
| January 26 | Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms |
| January 26 | India annexes Kashmir |
| January 26 | Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves |
| January 27 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
| January 28 | "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie and Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen and Jack Paar) |
| January 29 | Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in New York City |
| January 30 | U.S. Congress accepts the Eisenhower-doctrine |
| January 31 | Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding) |
| January 31 | Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished |
| February 1 | 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline |
| February 1 | Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam |
| February 2 | "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 73 performances |
| February 2 | United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt |
| February 3 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| February 4 | 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York) |
| February 5 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Piano Concert |
| February 8 | San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall |
| February 10 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| February 10 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms |
| February 11 | KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 11 | NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president |
| February 12 | Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed |
| February 13 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans |
| February 14 | Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites |
| February 15 | Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister |
| February 17 | Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72 |
| February 17 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| February 17 | Suez Canal reopens |
| February 20 | Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs. England, 13 wkts for match |
| February 21 | Dodgers (Ft. Worth) and Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises |
| February 22 | Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win |
| February 22 | Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958 |
| February 23 | "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 383 performances |
| February 25 | Buddy Holly and Crickets record "That'll Be the Day" |
| February 25 | Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport |
| February 27 | Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" |
| February 27 | Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files) |
| February 28 | Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory |
| March 1 | Kokomo the Chimp becomes Today Show animal editor |
| March 1 | KTWO TV channel 2 in Casper, WY (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 1 | "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" opens at Winter Garden New York City for 123 performances |
| March 3 | Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then" |
| March 3 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Markham and Jones (GRB) |
| March 3 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN) |
| March 3 | Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins (USA) |
| March 3 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open |
| March 3 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss (U.S.) |
| March 5 | Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland |
| March 5 | Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin) |
| March 6 | Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from U.K. |
| March 8 | 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston |
| March 8 | Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships |
| March 8 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| March 9 | 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska |
| March 10 | Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy |
| March 12 | East Germany accepts 22 Russian divisions |
| March 13 | Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba |
| March 14 | Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns |
| March 15 | Britain becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb |
| March 16 | 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young |
| March 16 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| March 16 | Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating New York Rangers 14-1 |
| March 17 | Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted |
| March 17 | Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash |
| March 18 | WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in Tupelo-Columbus, MS (NBC) begins |
| March 19 | Indians reject Boston's offer of $1 million for Herb Score |
| March 20 | Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it |
| March 21 | Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," premieres in New York City |
| March 22 | Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian |
| March 23 | 19th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Kansas 54-53 (3 OTs) |
| March 23 | U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons |
| March 25 | NBA modifies the free-throw rule |
| March 25 | Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community, known as the Common Market |
| March 27 | 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win |
| March 28 | 1st National Curling Championship held |
| March 30 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony |
| April 1 | Trial begins in Budapest against participants october uprising |
| April 1 | World's biggest glass oven used |
| April 1 | WYES TV channel 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 3 | Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London |
| April 3 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| April 4 | Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris |
| April 6 | New York City ends trolley car service |
| April 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests) |
| April 7 | 21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283 |
| April 9 | Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Washington D.C. |
| April 9 | Suez Canal cleared for all shipping |
| April 10 | John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London |
| April 10 | Jordanian government of Naboelsi resigns |
| April 10 | Suez canal reopens for all traffic |
| April 10 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| April 11 | Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires |
| April 11 | Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically |
| April 12 | Jim Spalding set a 2088 pin nine-game bowling record |
| April 12 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| April 13 | 11th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St. Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3 |
| April 13 | 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win |
| April 13 | Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temp halted |
| April 13 | "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| April 14 | Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship |
| April 14 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open |
| April 15 | Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery |
| April 15 | KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 15 | Saturday mail delivery restored after Congress givs PO $41 million |
| April 16 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
| April 16 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| April 20 | 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05 |
| April 20 | Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway |
| April 21 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| April 21 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fidei Donum |
| April 22 | All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies |
| April 24 | Chicago Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning |
| April 25 | 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated |
| April 25 | Ibrahim Hashim forms Jordanian government |
| April 25 | WUHY TV channel 35 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 26 | Jamestown, Virginia 350th Anniversary Festival opens |
| April 28 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| April 28 | WSOC TV channel 9 in Charlotte, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 29 | 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va |
| May 1 | Flevo Boys soccer team forms in Emmeloord |
| May 1 | Larry King's 1st radio broadcast |
| May 1 | U.S. gives Poland credit of $95 million |
| May 1 | Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km |
| May 4 | 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2 |
| May 4 | Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show |
| May 4 | Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam |
| May 5 | Adolf Scharf elected president of Austria |
| May 5 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| May 6 | Italian government of Segni resigns |
| May 6 | Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV |
| May 6 | Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) |
| May 7 | Indians' pitcher Herb Score is hit by a line drive off Gil McDougald |
| May 7 | Major Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K) |
| May 10 | 1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon |
| May 10 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow |
| May 11 | Gabriel Paris forms government of Colombia |
| May 12 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Smokey Golf Open |
| May 14 | Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in New York City |
| May 14 | "New Girt in Town" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 432 performances |
| May 15 | 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade |
| May 15 | 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) |
| May 16 | Major Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH |
| May 16 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae |
| May 16 | U.S. launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut |
| May 16 | Yankees involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade |
| May 17 | Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) |
| May 18 | 83rd Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Bold Ruler wins in 1:56.2 |
| May 19 | Adone Zoli forms Italian government |
| May 21 | French government of Mollet resigns |
| May 22 | KBTexas TV channel 3 in Bryan, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 22 | Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 home runs in 6th inning in 11-0 win |
| May 22 | South Africa government approves race separation in universities |
| May 24 | Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan |
| May 24 | Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia |
| May 25 | "Shinbone Alley" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| May 26 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open |
| May 28 | NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' and New York Giants' move to west coast |
| May 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 28 | WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| May 29 | Algerian rebels kill 336 collaborators |
| May 29 | Laos government of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns |
| May 29 | New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast |
| May 30 | Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
| May 30 | Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs. England at Edgbaston |
| May 31 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Christmas Island (atmospheric) |
| June 1 | 1st U.S. runner breaks 4 minute mile (Don Bowden) |
| June 2 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament |
| June 2 | U.S. TV interviews Khrushchev |
| June 3 | Howard Cosell's 1st TV show |
| June 4 | 1st commercial coal pipeline placed in operation |
| June 4 | May and Cowdrey make 411 stand vs. WI Ramadhin bowls 98 overs |
| June 5 | New York narcotics investigator, Dr. Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes |
| June 7 | Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey vs. Northants |
| June 9 | Anthony Eden resigns as British PM |
| June 10 | 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs |
| June 10 | Harold MacMillan becomes British PM |
| June 10 | John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada |
| June 11 | 12 die in a train crash in Vroman, Colorado |
| June 12 | Paul Anderson of U.S. back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs) |
| June 12 | Stan Musial plays in 823rd game (new NL consecutive-game streak) |
| June 13 | Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-home run games in a season |
| June 14 | 42.0 cm rain falls on East St. Louis, Illinois, state record |
| June 14 | Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| June 15 | 42.01 cm (16.54") of rainfall, East St. Louis, Illinois (state record) |
| June 15 | 57th U.S. Golf Open: Dick Mayer shoots a 282 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
| June 15 | 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 |
| June 15 | Yankees trade Billy Martin and Ralph Terry for Ryne Duran |
| June 15 | "Ziegfeld Follies of 1957" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 123 perf |
| June 16 | French offensive in Algeria |
| June 16 | White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 home runs to beat Washington Senators 8-6 |
| June 17 | "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra peaks at #2 |
| June 17 | Tuskegee boycott begins, Blacks boycotted city stores |
| June 18 | John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada |
| June 24 | "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV |
| June 25 | "Jonathan Winters Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 27 | Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana and Texas |
| June 28 | Frick overrules and names Stan Musial, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron to team |
| June 28 | Reds' fans stuff ballot box, electing 8 Reds as All Star starters |
| June 29 | 12th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| June 29 | Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party |
| July 1 | International Geophysical Year begins, ends December 31, 1958 |
| July 1 | WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast |
| July 2 | 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback |
| July 2 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes |
| July 4 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase |
| July 5 | 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62) |
| July 5 | Tom Graveney scores 258 vs. West Indies at Trent Bridge |
| July 6 | 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62) |
| July 6 | Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney |
| July 6 | Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri |
| July 7 | Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast |
| July 8 | Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick |
| July 8 | CDC incorporates |
| July 8 | Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders |
| July 9 | Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced |
| July 12 | 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower |
| July 12 | U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer |
| July 14 | Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270 |
| July 15 | Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die |
| July 15 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 16 | Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) |
| July 19 | 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada |
| July 19 | Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) |
| July 19 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 21 | 1st black to win a major U.S. tennis tournament, Althea Gibson |
| July 21 | 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley Golf Club Dayton Ohio |
| July 21 | Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament |
| July 24 | KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 24 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 25 | Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic |
| July 25 | Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley |
| July 25 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 26 | Mickey Mantle hits career home run # 200 |
| July 26 | U.S.S.R. launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile |
| July 27 | St. James' Theater in London closes |
| July 28 | Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance, Steve Allen Show |
| July 28 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| July 28 | White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game |
| July 29 | Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 29 | International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N. |
| July 29 | Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres |
| August 1 | 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) |
| August 1 | Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) |
| August 1 | Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10") |
| August 1 | U.S. and Canada create NORAD |
| August 3 | British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman |
| August 5 | "American Bandstand," begins network TV (ABC) |
| August 5 | Bkln Sports Authority gets an engineering report on 50,000-seat stadium in downtown area for estimated $207 million |
| August 5 | Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its debut |
| August 5 | WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions |
| August 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 8 | U.S.S.R. offers Syria economic/military aid |
| August 9 | 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000) |
| August 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 11 | Patty Berg wins LPGA All-American Golf Open |
| August 11 | Paul Hindemith' opera "Harmonie der Welt," premieres in Munich |
| August 15 | David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon |
| August 17 | Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher |
| August 18 | Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4 ") |
| August 18 | Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open |
| August 18 | Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46 |
| August 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 19 | New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to San Francisco in 1958 |
| August 19 | U.S. Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon |
| August 20 | Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0 |
| August 20 | "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 62 performances |
| August 20 | USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m) |
| August 20 | White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0 |
| August 21 | 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazachstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket) |
| August 22 | Floyd Patterson KOs Pete Rademacher in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| August 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 24 | British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea |
| August 25 | Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao |
| August 26 | U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile |
| August 27 | Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes |
| August 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 28 | Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill |
| August 29 | Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 |
| August 29 | Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights |
| August 30 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 30 | U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights |
| August 31 | Malayasia (formerly Malaya) gains independence from Britain |
| September 1 | Excursion train crashed into a ravine killing 175, injuring 400 |
| September 1 | WAVY TV channel 10 in Portsmouth-Norfolk, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 1 | WHC (now WPXI) TV channel 11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| September 1 | WTLV TV channel 12 in Jacksonville, Florida (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 2 | 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die |
| September 2 | Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game |
| September 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 3 | Dodgers play last game in Jersey City (11-4 in NJ) |
| September 3 | KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 3 | Warren Spahn sets record for a lefty pitcher with 41st shut-out |
| September 4 | Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel |
| September 4 | Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school |
| September 5 | Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising |
| September 5 | Yugoslavia bans Milovan Djilas' book "new class marine officers" |
| September 6 | Elvis records "White Xmas," "Silent Night" and "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
| September 7 | 71st U.S. Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62) |
| September 7 | WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 8 | 77th U.S. Mens Tennis: M J Anderson beats Ashley J Cooper (108 75 64) |
| September 8 | Jackie Wilson, releases his 1st solo single "Reet Petite" |
| September 8 | Pope Pius XII encyclical On motion pictures, radio, TV |
| September 9 | "Diana" by Paul Anka reaches #1 |
| September 9 | Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited |
| September 9 | President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction |
| September 10 | "Mask and Gown" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| September 12 | Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus visits U.S. |
| September 14 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| September 14 | U.N. resolution deplores and condemns U.S.S.R. invasion of Hungary |
| September 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 15 | Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany |
| September 15 | "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres |
| September 15 | SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game |
| September 16 | Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed) |
| September 16 | LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers |
| September 17 | 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico |
| September 17 | KETV TV channel 7 in Omaha, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 17 | Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight |
| September 17 | Thailand military coup under marshal Sarit Thanarat |
| September 18 | Electric train joining in Amsterdam-Brussels |
| September 18 | "Wagon Train" premieres |
| September 19 | 1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas, Nevada |
| September 21 | German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean |
| September 21 | Olav V, becomes king of Norway |
| September 21 | "Perry Mason" with Raymond Burr premieres on CBS-TV |
| September 21 | Pote Sarasin forms government in Thailand |
| September 22 | Duke Snider's 39th and 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field |
| September 22 | "Maverick" premieres |
| September 23 | Milwaukee Braves clinch NL pennant by beating Cards 4-2 |
| September 23 | "That'll Be Day" by Buddy Holly and Crickets reaches #1 |
| September 23 | White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw |
| September 23 | WTIC TV channel 61 in Hartford, CT (CBS/FOX) begins broadcasting |
| September 24 | Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 |
| September 24 | Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
| September 25 | 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark |
| September 25 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| September 25 | Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced |
| September 26 | Bernstein and Sondheim's musical "West Side Story," premieres in New York City |
| September 26 | Dag Hammarskjold re-elected Secretary-General of UN |
| September 26 | Musical "West Side Story," opens on Broadway |
| September 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 26 | "West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 734 performances |
| September 27 | Giants rent Seals Stadium until Candlestick is built |
| September 28 | "Dollar A Second," last airs on NBC-TV |
| September 28 | Dutch Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels |
| September 28 | "Gisele MacKenzie Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 28 | "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1 |
| September 29 | 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan) |
| September 29 | Buddy Holly and Crickets released 2nd single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away" |
| September 29 | "DuPont Show of the Month," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | New York Giants play and lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts) |
| September 29 | Passenger train and oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die |
| September 29 | "Paul Winchell Show," debuts on ABC-TV |
| September 30 | French government of Mauroy, resigns due to Algeria |
| September 30 | WKYT TV channel 27 in Lexington, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of U.S.S.R. attack |
| October 2 | New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores |
| October 2 | New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series |
| October 3 | Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin |
| October 4 | "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS |
| October 4 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite |
| October 5 | 11th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 at Montreal |
| October 5 | 12th Ryder Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 4 at Lindrick GC, England |
| October 5 | Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilos sentenced to 7 years |
| October 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 6 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open |
| October 7 | "American Bandstand" premieres |
| October 7 | KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 7 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational |
| October 8 | Brooklyn Dodgers announce move to Los Angeles |
| October 8 | Procter and Gamble-director N McElroy becomes U.S. Minister of Defense |
| October 8 | Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City) |
| October 8 | Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire |
| October 9 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| October 10 | Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale |
| October 10 | Braves' Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series |
| October 10 | Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series |
| October 10 | President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant |
| October 10 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 12 | 1st coml flight between California and Antartica |
| October 12 | Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 12 | "Mask and Gown" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 39 performances |
| October 12 | "Simply Heavenly" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 62 performances |
| October 13 | German Dem Rep recalls East Mark and issues new currency |
| October 14 | Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1 |
| October 15 | Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for San Francisco Seals-franchises only, not the players |
| October 16 | Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits Williamsburg Virginia |
| October 16 | USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space |
| October 17 | Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visits White House |
| October 17 | "Copper and Brass" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| October 17 | Dike Marken-Dutch mainland closed |
| October 17 | French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature |
| October 17 | II Tsjoendrigar becomes premier of Pakistan |
| October 19 | "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances |
| October 19 | Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals |
| October 20 | Karachi A (277-0d) beat Sind A by an innings w/o losing a wkt |
| October 20 | Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary |
| October 21 | Giants purchase Class-A Phoenix team |
| October 21 | Jailhouse Rock starring Elvis Presley opens |
| October 21 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lawton Golf Open |
| October 22 | Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany |
| October 22 | KJAC TV channel 4 in Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| October 23 | 1st test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3 |
| October 25 | Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed |
| October 26 | U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov |
| October 26 | Vatican Radio begins broadcasting |
| October 27 | Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey |
| October 27 | WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 27 | WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 28 | WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 29 | Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament) |
| October 30 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| October 30 | Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika |
| October 30 | WLWI (now WTHR) TV channel 13 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| October 30 | WYTV TV channel 33 in Youngstown, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 31 | "Jamaica" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 558 performances |
| November 1 | KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan |
| November 2 | 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio |
| November 3 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit |
| November 4 | 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched |
| November 5 | Felix Gaillard forms government in France |
| November 5 | Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2 cents soccer pool ticket |
| November 6 | Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France |
| November 6 | "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| November 7 | Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 7 | WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast |
| November 8 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| November 10 | Cleveland Browns' Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0 |
| November 10 | NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA |
| November 11 | Demolition begins on cable car barn at California and Hyde (SF) |
| November 14 | Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| November 14 | Henry Aaron wins NL MVP |
| November 15 | U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000 |
| November 16 | Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89 |
| November 16 | "Copper and Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 36 performances |
| November 16 | Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0 |
| November 17 | WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 18 | Tunisia refuses Russian weapons |
| November 19 | Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia |
| November 20 | Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in New York City |
| November 22 | Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP |
| November 22 | Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY |
| November 22 | Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry" |
| November 24 | Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yards rushing |
| November 25 | President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech |
| November 26 | WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 27 | Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration |
| November 28 | "Look Homeward, Angel" with Anthony Perkins premieres in New York City |
| November 28 | Warren Spahn of the Braves wins Cy Young Award |
| November 29 | NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants |
| November 30 | 45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7 |
| November 30 | Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 |
| November 30 | "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 413 performances |
| December 1 | Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show |
| December 2 | 1st U.S. large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn) |
| December 2 | Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1 |
| December 3 | 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB) |
| December 4 | 1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published |
| December 4 | 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England) |
| December 5 | New York City is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law) |
| December 5 | William Inge's "Dark at the Top of the Stairs," premieres in New York City |
| December 6 | 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up |
| December 6 | AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987) |
| December 6 | Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions |
| December 7 | Tony Kubek of the Yankees selected as AL Rookie of the Year |
| December 9 | 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel |
| December 12 | Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham |
| December 12 | Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo |
| December 12 | U.S. announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) |
| December 14 | "Most Happy Fella" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 678 performances |
| December 14 | "Rumple" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| December 17 | U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile |
| December 18 | Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity |
| December 19 | "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances |
| December 20 | Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service |
| December 21 | Indonesia proclaims end to state of war |
| December 22 | KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins |
| December 23 | Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa |
| December 25 | Ed Gein found insane of murder |
| December 26 | Roger Sessions' 3rd Symphony premieres in London |
| December 28 | CBS states it won't broadcast baseball where minor league games are on |
| December 28 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| December 29 | Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game |
| December 29 | Singers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas |
| December 30 | Israeli government of Ben-Gurion, resigns |
| December 30 | New York Giants win NFL championship |
| December 31 | AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy |
