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4 unusual facts about 1957


Carl Freybe

As chairman, he ran unsuccessfully as the lead candidate in the 1957 national election.

Frank Follwell

Follwell was defeated by Lee Grills of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

Onn Jaafar

Onn's character has been portrayed in a 2007 Malaysian movie 1957: Hati Malaya which is directed by a popular Malaysian film director, Shuhaimi Baba.

Victor Quelch

Quelch would run for his final term in office in the 1957 Canadian federal election he won in a landslide and retired from federal politics a year later when the government dissolved in 1958.


1957–58 NCAA University Division men's basketball season

Dom Flora, a senior point guard at Washington and Lee University, finished his college career with 2,310 points and 696 free throws made, both of which were ranked fifth in their respective categories in college basketball history at the end of the 1957–58 season.

Albert Wright

Chalky Wright (1912-1957), born Albert Wright, Mexican-American featherweight boxer and world champion

Ann Robinson

Her career as a leading woman was effectively ended in 1957, when she eloped to Mexico to marry a matador, Jaime Bravo, with whom she had two sons; Jaime Bravo, Jr., who is a director for ABC Sports, and Estefan A. Bravo, who played the Axl Rose-like character in White Trash Wins Lotto, a musical by Andy Prieboy.

Baalbeck International Festival

Fairuz, the Rahbani Brothers and the Lebanese popular troupe (from 1957 until 1973)

Billy Usselton

Usselton's only album as a leader was the 1957 release His First Album, issued on Kapp Records.

Birds Anonymous

Birds Anonymous won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1957 beating Tabasco Road starring Speedy Gonzales and his drunk friends; both shorts were eventually given Blue Ribbon reissues.

Black-footed cat

Wuppertal Zoo acquired black-footed cats as long ago as 1957, and succeeded in breeding them in 1963.

Cavalier Mustang

In 1957, newspaper publisher David Lindsay (1922–2009) formed Trans Florida Aviation Inc.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Christian Schwarz-Schilling

In 1957 he became manager of the battery manufacturer Accumulatorenfabrik Sonnenschein in Büdingen in Hesse, which he remained until 1982.

Commonwealth Railways CB class railcar

Following the extension of the standard gauge line from Port Augusta to Marree in 1957 and Whyalla, South Australia in 1972 the Budd cars began to operate to these destinations.

Daniel Island, Antarctica

Named by Eklund for Commissaryman 2d Class David Daniel, U.S. Navy, cook and Navy support force member of the 1957 wintering party at Wilkes Station during the IGY.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Donald Cochrane

In 1933 he was elected to Marrickville Municipal Council, of which he was mayor in 1944 (he would serve on council until 1957).

Ed Bruce

One of his biggest acting roles was as the second lead on the television revival of 1957's Maverick, called Bret Maverick.

Eerik Siikasaari

Eerik Siikasaari (born in 1957) is a Finnish jazz bassist who is probably best known as a member of Trio Töykeät, a Finnish jazz trio.

Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

It is a remake of the Golden Bear winning, American motion picture 12 Angry Men (1957), which was directed by Sidney Lumet, the film in turn was an adaptation from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose.

Eliot Hyman

In 1957, he helped found Seven Arts Productions and played an important role in the financing of the first horror film from Hammer Film Productions, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).

Francisco Osorto

Francisco Salvador Osorto Guardado (born 20 March 1957 in Santa Rosa de Lima) is a former football player from El Salvador.

Frank Domínguez

His most famous song, "Tú me acostumbraste", was written in 1957 and has been recorded by many singers among them, Luis Miguel, Olga Guillot, Chavela Vargas, Pedro Vargas, Caetano Veloso, Luciano Tajoli, Domenico Modugno, Tom Jones, Lola Flores, Sara Montiel, Andrea Bocelli and the Gipsy Kings.

Garfield in Paradise

They meet the tribal chief who explains that the villagers learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies", and that the car was originally owned by the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend who drove his car into the village in 1957 and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture.

Günther Anders

Anders was married three times, to the Jewish-German philosopher and political scientist Hannah Arendt from 1929 to 1937, to the Jewish-Austrian writer Elisabeth Freundlich from 1945 to 1955, and to Jewish-American pianist Charlotte Lois Zelka in 1957.

Hanzlík

Bill Hanzlik (born 1957), American basketball player and coach

Harlan Huckleby

Harlan Charles Huckleby (born December 30, 1957) is a former professional American football running back and kick returner who was drafted by the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).

Harmonic drive

The basic concept of strain wave gearing (SWG) was introduced by C.W. Musser in his 1957 patent.

Hartley Alleyne

Hartley Leroy Alleyne (born 28 February 1957 in Derricks, St James) is a former Barbadian cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast bowler who played for Barbados, Worcestershire, Kent and Natal between 1978-79 and 1989-90.

Heinrich Balss

Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods.

Hugo Peretti

In 1957, they bought into Roulette Records where they both wrote songs for various artists such as Valerie Carr and produced major hits for Jimmie Rodgers including "Honeycomb" (Billboard # 1) and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Billboard # 3), and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" and "Secretly".

I Walk Alone

This was the first of several films that Lancaster and Douglas made together over the decades, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Devil's Disciple (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), and Tough Guys (1986), establishing the pair as something of a team in the public's imagination.

Jacques Borlée

Jacques Borlée was born in Kisangani, in Belgian Congo, in 1957, three years before the independence of the country.

José Luis Gil

José Luis Gil (Zaragoza, December 9, 1957) is a Spanish television, cinema, theatre and voice actor.

Joseph Regenstein

Joseph Regenstein (1889–1957) was an American industrialist whose philanthropy benefited the city of Chicago, especially the University of Chicago, where the Regenstein Library is named in his memory.

Katherine Washington

Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.

Knee Deep in the Blues

"Knee Deep in the Blues" is a song written by Melvin Endsley and was recorded by Marty Robbins in 1957.

Merl Lindsay

In 1957, Lindsay joined ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee, taking over the ten-piece Ozark Jubilee Band.

Mikhail Stakhurskii

After the war, from 1945 to 1961, he served as the First Secretary of four regional party committees, including three in Ukraine (Vinnytsia Oblast from 1945–1951, Poltava Oblast from 1951–1955, and Zhytomyr Oblast from 1957–1961) and one in Russia (Khabarovsk Krai from 1955–1957).

Miller cycle

The Miller cycle was patented by Ralph Miller, an American engineer, US patent 2817322 dated Dec 24, 1957.

Pavel Pavel

Pavel Pavel (born March 11, 1957 in Strakonice) is a Czech engineer and experimental archaeologist best known for investigating how ancient civilizations transported heavy weights.

Peter Jones

Peter Owen-Jones (born 1957), English Anglican clergyman, author and television presenter

Philip Lewis

Phil Lewis (born 1957), English vocalist for the American band L.A. Guns

Pixie Jenkins

Born 'Paul Blake Jenkins' in Launceston, Tasmania in 1957, now referred to by his stage name 'Pixie', in an article in The Australian, Pixie was referenced alongside Jimmy Little, Chad Morgan and Slim Dusty as "...an icon of Australia's country music industry".

Port Norris, New Jersey

The oystering industry reached its peak in 1955, declining by 1957 due to oyster pathogen Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) which killed 90% of the oysters.

Robert Coe

Robert Douglas Coe (1902–1985), career diplomat and the U.S. ambassador to Denmark from 1953 to 1957

The Ann Sothern Show

Her first series, Private Secretary, ended in 1957 after a contract dispute occurred between Sothern and Secretary's producer Jack Chertok.

The Chips

Although it did not chart, "Rubber Biscuit" became an instant east coast radio favourite, and saw its performers touring alongside The Dells, Cadillacs and Bo Diddley, but the momentum gained by their debut single was waning and the group broke up at the end of 1957.

Van Allen Range

It was named after James A. Van Allen, an American scientist and one of the original organizers of the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58.

Vinco Corporation

Prior to working for the Belock Instrument Corporation in 1957, golfing great Gene Sarazen was in charge of customer relations for the Vinco Corporation.

Virginia A. Phillips

Virginia A. Phillips (born February 14, 1957) is a judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Walther Linis

They started in France and sailed through the Suez Canal to Arabia where they unloaded oil and continued over the Pacific shoreline to San Diego in California and on into the Panama Canal to the Gulf island of Aruba, waterless island but they could get oil board and then took 12 trips between many U.S. cities in the east shore, the boat went several times to the port of Tampico in Mexico from 1957-58.

Wong Foon Sien

He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958.


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