Today in History for July 1957

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 43 of 43

1st - International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
1st - WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
2nd - 1st submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback
2nd - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes
4th - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase
5th - 71st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Lew Hoad beats Ashley J Cooper (62 61 62)
5th - Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge
6th - 64th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Althea Gibson beats Darlene Hard (63 62)
6th - Harry S Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri
7th - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
8th - Baeball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick
8th - CDC incorporates
8th - Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn-Fein leaders
9th - 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
9th - Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced
12th - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
12th - US Surgeon Gen Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
14th - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
15th - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
15th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
16th - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
19th - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
19th - Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
19th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
21st - 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)
21st - 39th PGA Championship: Lionel Hebert at Miami Valley GC Dayton Ohio
21st - Marilynn Smith/Fay Crocker wins Hot Springs 4-Ball Golf Tournament
24th - KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
24th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
25th - Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
25th - Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England v WI Headingley
25th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
26th - Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
26th - USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
26th - Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated
27th - St James' Theater in London closes
Country Singer Jerry Lee Lewis 28th - Jerry Lee Lewis makes his 1st TV appearance (Steve Allen Show)
28th - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
28th - White Sox' James Landis struck out 5 times in a game
28th - Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.
29th - Floyd Patterson TKOs Tommy Jackson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
29th - International Atomic Energy Agency forms by UN
29th - Jack Paar's Tonight show premieres

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 72 of 72

1st - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
2nd - Mike Anger, rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
3rd - Danny Heep, baseball player
3rd - Faye Resnick, author (Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary)
3rd - Laura Branigan, Brewster NY, vocalist (Gloria)
3rd - Orel Hershiser, Buffalo NY, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Indians)
4th - Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand
5th - David Hanson, politician
5th - David Pinkney , British Touring Car Racer
5th - Doug Wilson, Canadian hockey player
6th - Mario Martinez, Salinas Ca, US Olympic weightlifter (Olympic-4th-1988)
6th - Ron Duguay, Canada, hockey player (NY Rangers, Detroit Red Wings)
7th - Jonathan Dayton, American film director
7th - Berry Sakharof, Turkish-born Israeli guitarist (Minimal Compact)
8th - Clyde Butts, cricketer (West Indies off-spinner late eighties)
9th - [Peter] Marc Almond, Merseyside England, vocalist (Soft Cell)
9th - Kelly McGillis, Newport Beach Ca, actress (Top Gun, Accused, Witness)
9th - Tim Kring, American writer and producer
9th - Paul Merton, British comedian
10th - Cindy Sheehan, American anti-war/political activist
11th - Michael Rose, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru-Brutal, Positive)
11th - Pete Murphy, rocker (Love Hysteria)
11th - Vince Williams, actor (Hamp-Guiding Light)
11th - Peter Murphy, British musician (Bauhaus)
12th - Buddy Foster, actor (Hondo, Mayberry RFD)
12th - Rick Douglas Husband, Amarillo Texas, USAF mjr/astronaut
13th - Cameron Crowe, director (Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
13th - Phil Margera, father of Bam Margera
14th - Peter Webb, NZ cricketer (batsman against West Indies 1980)
15th - Kate Kellaway, critic
16th - Alan Donnelly, MP (Labour)
16th - Wlodi Smolarek, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
16th - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
17th - Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
18th - Nicholas Alexander Faldo, England, PGA golfer (1992 British Open)
19th - Cathy Reynolds, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1981 Golden Lights)
20th - Donna Dixon, Virginia, actress and wife of actor Dan Aykroyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies)
20th - Larry Rinker, Stuart FL, Nike golfer (1985 Bing Crosby Pro-Am-2nd)
20th - Merlina Defranco, rocker (Defranco Family)
21st - Jon Lovitz, Tarzana California, actor (SNL, League of their Own, Critic)
22nd - Dave Steib, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
23rd - Harry Stefanki, Mento Park Cal, tennis star
23rd - Theo van Gogh, Dutch film director (d. 2004)
24th - Dorothy Mays, Baltimore MD, playmate (Jul, 1979)
24th - Pam Tillis, Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
24th - Robbie Grey, rocker
25th - Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980)
25th - Daniel W Bursch, Bristol PA, Lt Cmdr USN/Astronaut (STS 51, 68, 77)
25th - Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist (Curtis)
25th - Roger Clinton, singer, President Clinton's half-brother
26th - Jeff Blatnick, Schenectady NY, wrestling (Oly-gold-1984)
26th - Nana Visitor, [Tucker], actress (Deep Space 9)
26th - Wayne Desmond Grady, Brisbane Australia, PGA golfer (1990 PGA)
26th - Wayne Grady, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
26th - Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor
26th - Hart Hanson, American television writer and producer
27th - Gezina E "Liesbeth" van Apeldoorn, Dutch actress (Composer)
27th - Hansi Muller, skier
27th - Matt Osborne, American professional wrestler
29th - Nellie Kim, Russian gymnast
29th - Alessandra Marc, American operatic soprano
30th - Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch bicyclist
30th - Bill Cartwright, basketball player (NY Knicks, Chicago Bulls)
30th - Mark Tymchyshyn, Minneapolis, actor (Gavin-As The World Turns)
30th - Rat Scabies, [Chris Miller], Surrey England, rock drummer (Damned)
30th - Nery Pumpido, Argentine footballer
30th - Clint Hurdle, American baseball player and manager
31st - Dirk Blocker, LA California, actor (Baa Baa Black Sheep, Ryan's Four)
31st - Irina Nazariva, USSR, 4 X 400m relay (Olympic-gold-1980)
31st - Victoria E Cooke, Hollywood Ca, playmate (Aug, 1980)
31st - Daniel Ash, British musician (Bauhaus)
31st - Leon Durham, American baseball player

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

28th - "Wuthering Heights" actress Merle Oberon (46) weds Italian industrialist Bruno Pagliai

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

3rd - Richard Mohaupt, German composer (Bucolica), dies at 52
3rd - Dolf Luque, baseball player (b. 1890)
4th - Judy Tyler, actress (Princess-Howdy Doody), dies at 24 in car crash
5th - Charles Sherwood Noble, American-born inventor
8th - Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29), dies at 78
8th - Henry Fevrier, composer, dies at 81
8th - William Cadbury, chocolate maker, dies at 89
9th - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, composer, dies at 80
9th - Manfred Julius Susskind, South African cricketer (1924 Test series), dies
10th - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77
11th - Aga Khan III,Pakistani 48th Shia Iman, dies at 79
15th - George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74
15th - Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87
15th - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
15th - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
19th - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
20th - Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), dies at 46
21st - Bernard Spooner, US inventor (bulletproof jacket), dies
21st - Rockley Wilson, cricketer (bro of Clem, Test for England 1921), dies
48th Shia Iman Aga Khan III (11th) 23rd - G Tomasi di Lampedusa, writer, dies at 61
24th - Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers & Thieves), dies at 72
26th - Carlos Castillo Armas, president of Guatemala, murdered
28th - Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876)
30th - Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76