Top News Stories from 1957

World Events

• Anthony Eden resigns (Jan. 9); MacMillan becomes British Prime Minister.
• The USSR tests its first successful ICBM.
• Russia launches Sputnik I, first earth-orbiting satellite—the Space Age begins (Oct. 4).

U.S. Events

• Eisenhower Doctrine calls for aid to Mideast countries that resist armed aggression from Communist-controlled nations (Jan. 5).
• The "Little Rock Nine" integrate Arkansas high school. Eisenhower sends troops to quell mob and protect the students after Gov. Orval Faubus defies federal order (Sept. 24).

Economics

Sports

World Series

NBA Championship

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Basketball Championship

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story debuts on Broadway and brings violence to the stage.
• Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night is produced posthumously and wins both the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize.
• Columbia University professor Charles Van Doren becomes a media sensation by winning $129,000 on the quiz show Twenty One.
• Leave It to Beaver premieres on CBS, ushering in an era of television shows that depict the ideal American.

Movies

• The Bridge on the River Kwai, Twelve Angry Men, Sayonara, Peyton Place, Witness for the Prosecution

Books

• James Agee, A Death in the Family
• John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle
• Noam Chomsky, Syntactic Structures
• Lawrence Durrell, Justine
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road
• Denise Levertov, Here and Now
• Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
• Robert Penn Warren, Promises: Poems 1954—56

Science

• Temporary artificial heart invented by Willem Kolff.
• Interferon invented by Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindemann (England and Switzerland).
• Clarence W. Lillehie and Earl Bakk (US) invent the internal pacemaker. Background: Health & Nutrition
• Bardeen, Cooper, and Scheiffer (US) propose a theory of superconductivity.
• First round-the-world nonstop jet plane flight. Maj. Gen. Archie J. Old, Jr. (USAF) led a flight of three Boeing B-52 bombers around the world in 45 hours, 19 minutes (completed Jan. 18). Background: Famous Firsts in Aviation

Death

• Humphrey Bogart
• Richard E. Byrd
• Joseph McCarthy
• Arturo Toscanini

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