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Civil Rights Act of 1957 enacted, setting up the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Catholic Memorial High School opens its doors for the first time in Boston, Massachusetts . September 23 – The Academy Award -winning movie The Three Faces of Eve is released.
1957 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.
The Associated Press, [1] United Press [2] and Detroit Free Press [3] each ranked the top Michigan news stories of 1957 as follows: The November 1 opening of the Mackinac Bridge between the state's Upper and Lower Peninsulas (AP-1, UP-1, DFP-5) The September 12 death of Detroit Mayor Albert Cobo and Louis Miriani taking over as the new mayor ...
On this day in 1957, the first underground nuclear test was carried out at the Nevada Test Site, a 1,375 square-mile research center located 65 miles away from Las Vegas.The 1,7 kiloton nuclear ...
Bradley Cooper's new drama 'Maestro' depicts the iconic composer's career and complex marriage. Look inside TIME's 1957 cover story on Bernstein.
The one-month maximum is 17.16 inches in June of 1957. The official one-day maximum is 8.15 inches on June 15, 1957, but the News-Democrat reported 13.75 inches fell at its office from 9 p.m. June ...
A recreation of a scene from the report, showing a woman harvesting cooked spaghetti from the branches of a tree. The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
1957 – Eisenhower Doctrine, wherein a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state; 1957 – Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction