Aug 29 US Senator Strom Thurmond talks nonstop for 24 hours, 18 minutes to filibuster a civil rights bill.

Aug 15 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon

Aug 29 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 01 Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10")

Aug 29 Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24 hr filibuster against civil rights

Aug 18 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4«")

Aug 15 USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter

Aug 26 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile

Aug 28 Sen Thurmond begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill

Aug 26 The USSR announces its first successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Aug 24 The birth of Stephen Fry, British writer and comedian

Aug 26 Ford introduces the Edsel automobile.(Bad move)

Oct 16 Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit Williamsburg Virginia

Oct 26 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov

Oct 04 Leave It to Beaver premiered on ABC-TV."..And starring Jerry Mathers as the Beaver," Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver), Tony Dow (Wally), and Barbara Billingsley as Mrs. June Cleaver.

Oct 07 "American Bandstand" premieres

Oct 01 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack

Oct 17 Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit White House

Oct 26 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting

Oct 23 First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3

Oct 19 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal, Canada, became first NHLer to score 500 goals

Oct 10 Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant

Oct 13 German Dem Rep recalls the East Mark and issues new currency

Oct 29 A hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset (Parliament)

Oct 15 USS Lake Champlain reaches Valencia, Spain to assist in flood rescue work.

Oct 17 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Oct 08 Turkish and Syrian border guards exchange fire

Oct 04 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite

Oct 04 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS

Oct 04 Russia launches the first Earth orbiting satellite, 'Sputnik 1'

Jul 02 The first submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback

Jul 06 Althea Gibson became first black tennis player to win Wimbledon

Jul 19 The first rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada

Jul 14 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270

Jul 16 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)

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