Ramstedt's two-volume magnum opus, Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft (' Introduction to Altaic Linguistics ') was published in 1952 – 1957.

Ramstedt ( 1952 – 1957 ).

* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.

* 1957 – Jaroslava Maxova, Czech soprano and vocal coach

* 1957 – Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut

* 1957 – Greg Child, Australian mountaineer

* 1957 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Pure Prairie League and The Notorious Cherry Bombs )

* 1957 – Aviva Chomsky, American historian, daughter of Noam Chomsky

* 1957 – The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force.

* 1886 – Eric Coates, English composer and viola player ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Jeff Grubb, American game designer and author

* 1957 – Bernhard Langer, German golfer

* 1887 – Dudley Benjafield, English race car driver ( d. 1957 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Bob Horner, American baseball player

* 1957 – Jim McGreevey, American politician

* 1957 – Melanie Griffith, American actress

* 1884 – Harry Dean, English cricketer ( d. 1957 )

* 1875 – Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian painter ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Mojo Nixon, American singer-songwriter

* 1957 – Farhat Basir Khan, Indian theoretician and activist

* 1957 – Butch Vig, American drummer, songwriter, and producer ( Garbage and Spooner )

* 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ).

* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Bodo Rudwaleit, German footballer

* Clive Burr ( born 1957 ), drummer

:# A Song for the Morning ( 1957 ); composed under the pseudonym Clive Chapel

Clive Labovitch and Michael Heseltine – later a minister under Margaret Thatcher and Deputy Prime Minister under John Major – who had met at university started out with the 1957 Directory of Opportunities for Graduates and in 1959 relaunched Man About Town, which was to become an influential ( if unprofitable ) men's consumer magazine.

Clive Burr ( born 8 March 1957, East Ham, east London ) is a British drummer, best known as a member of Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982.

He appeared in The Army Game ( 1957 – 61 ), a British TV comedy series, as Private Montague ' Excused Boots ' Bisley, and its sequel Bootsie and Snudge from 1960-63 ( there was also a one series revival in colour in 1974 ) working at a Gentleman's Club with Bill Fraser as Snudge and Clive Dunn.

* Clive Mantle ( born 1957 ), actor.

Beverley Jane Moxon was born in Leeds on 28 March 1957 to Clive and Mavis Moxon.

Burr appeared in over 60 movies between 1946 and 1957.

The series ran from 1957 to 1966, and Burr won Emmy Awards in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as Perry Mason.

The character of Perry Mason was portrayed each weekday on a long-running radio series, followed by well-known depictions on film and television, including " television's most successful and longest-running lawyer series " from 1957 to 1966 starring Raymond Burr ; another series in 1973 – 1974, starring Monte Markham and Brett Somers ; and 30 made-for-TV movies filmed from 1985 to 1993.

* Joseph Tyrrell ( 1858 – 1957 ), full name Joseph Burr Tyrrell, geologist

Hopper is best known for his regular role as the private investigator, Paul Drake, on CBS ' courtroom television series, Perry Mason ( 1957 – 1966 ), with Raymond Burr in the title role and Barbara Hale as secretary Della Street.

Burr served as a Trustee on the Teaneck Board of Education from 1955 to 1961 and was board president from 1956 to 1957.

Joseph Burr Tyrrell ( November 1, 1858 Weston, Ontario – August 26, 1957 ) was a Canadian geologist, cartographer, and mining consultant.

* Ty Burr ( born 1957 ), film critic for The Boston Globe

Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1957 ) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects ( 1963 ).

But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

* Holger Nehring, ' National Internationalists: British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons, the Politics of Transnational Communications and the Social History of the Cold War, 1957 – 1964 ', Contemporary European History, 14, No. 4 ( 2006 )

* Holger Nehring, ' The British and West German Protests against Nuclear Weapons and the Cultures of the Cold War, 1957 – 64 ', Contemporary British History, 19, No. 2 ( 2005 )

* 1957 – Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster

* 1957 – Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder ( d. 2007 )

The writer / director / producer team of twin brothers John and Roy Boulting also produced a series of successful satires on British life and institutions, beginning with Private's Progress ( 1956 ), and continuing with Brothers in Law ( 1957 ), Carlton-Browne of the F. O.

* 1957 – Ray Winstone, British actor

* 1957 – Richard Cook, British jazz writer ( d. 2007 )

* 1957 – Mitchell Symons, British writer

* 1957 – Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef

* 1957 – Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.

* 1901 – Reginald Sheffield, British actor ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Janick Gers, British guitarist ( Iron Maiden and White Spirit )

* 1957 – 1st Earl of Athlone, British royal, brother of Queen Mary ( b. 1874 )

Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

In fact, this test did not work as planned, and the first British H-bomb was successfully detonated over the southeastern tip of Christmas Island on 8 November 1957.

During the British Grapple X test of 8 November 1957 which took place directly above the southeastern tip of Christmas Island, yield was stronger than expected and there was some blast damage in the settlements.

British Army troops, part of Middle East Command and comprising 25th Armoured Brigade and briefly 10th Armoured Division, were still present after independence and stayed in Libya until at least 1957.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

* 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British

* 1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician

* 1957 – Edward Stourton, British radio presenter