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The Nation 1957
1st underground nuclear explosion at Las Vegas, Nevada
President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
Ed Gein found insane of murder
Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill
August 29 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
Tuskegee boycott begins, Blacks boycotted city stores
Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
Eisenhower orders U.S. troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
Nobel prizes 1957
Physics – Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
Chemistry – Lord Alexander R. Todd
Physiology or Medicine – Daniel Bovet
Literature – Albert Camus
Peace – Lester Bowles Pearson
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Nikita Khrushchev
"Unquestionably, in the deadly give and take of the cold war, the high score for the year belongs to Russia. And unquestionably, the Man of the Year was Russia's stubby and bald, garrulous and brilliant ruler: Nikita Khrushchev." 1957 Time Man of the Year Nikita Khrushchev
The World 1957
U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik I, 1st artificial Earth satellite It orbits the Earth every 96.2 minutes at a speed of 18,000 mph, emitting a beeping telemetry beacon signal.
Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up
The Class of 1957
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