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

Between 1957 and 1961 the United States followed an ambitious and well-funded program to develop a nuclear-powered cruise missile, Project Pluto.

His son George is a historian of science, one of whose books is Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957 – 1965.

From 1957 to 1961 he worked on the Orion Project, which proposed the possibility of space-flight using nuclear pulse propulsion.

This idea, which looked very promising in 1957, was proposed to the US Army by Jack Kilby, and led to the short-lived Micromodule Program ( similar to 1951's Project Tinkertoy ).

Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.

Such a launch did not occur until early 1958 as part of Project Vanguard, after the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 in October 1957.

In September 1957 Avro's Project Studies PS-1 and PS-2 were released.

It effectively began with the Soviet launch of the Sputnik 1 artificial satellite on 4 October 1957, and concluded with the co-operative Apollo-Soyuz Test Project human spaceflight mission in July 1975.

In 1957, as part of Project Manhigh, Kittinger set an interim balloon altitude record of in Manhigh I, for which he was awarded his first Distinguished Flying Cross.

* Project 57, 58, 58A — 1957 – 1958

Project 57's weapons safety test was conducted here on 24 April 1957, spreading particles emitting alpha radiation over a large area.

* New Discoveries at Jamestown, Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America By John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson 1957 Project Gutenberg.

* The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves, 1957, Penguin Books ; Also available from Project Gutenberg: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete

The Limerick University Project Committee was founded in September 1959 as a project of the 1957 Mayor of Limerick, Ted Russell.

Working with Camm at Hawker were Sir Frederick Page ( later to design the English Electric Lightning ), Leslie Appleton ( later to design the advanced Fairey Delta 2 and Britain's first air-to-air missile, the Fairey Fireflash ), Stuart Davies ( joined Avro in 1936 and later to be chief designer of the Avro Vulcan ), Roy Chaplin ( became Chief Designer at Hawker in 1957 ) and Sir Robert Lickley ( Chief Project Engineer during the war, and later to be Chief Engineer at Fairey ).

In 1957, scientists and engineers at the Canadian Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment ( DRTE ) under the leadership of John H. Chapman embarked on a project initially known simply as S-27 or the Topside Sounder Project.

* The United States had embarked on a similar project in 1957, dubbed Project Mohole, which was intended to penetrate the shallow crust under the Pacific Ocean off Mexico.

After the launch of mankind's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, Mao decided during the National Congress of the CCP on May 17, 1958 to make China an equal with the superpowers (“”), by adopting Project 581 with the objective of placing a satellite in orbit by 1959 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PRC's founding.

The dam, part of the Greater Chao Phraya Project, was finished in 1957 and was the first dam constructed in Thailand.

From 1957 to 1973 Albus worked at NASA starting in 1957 as Physicist-Engineer on Project Vanguard at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.

The Italian Carrozzeria Pietro Frua design firm ( then a recently acquired subsidiary of Ghia ) built from Sep 1957 to spring 1958 the first three prototypes, later designated by Volvo in September 1958: P958-X1, P958-X2 and P958-X3, ( P: Project 9: September 58: Year 1958 = P958 )

* Project Vanguard, a U. S. satellite launch project begun in 1957

Vanguard rockets were used by Project Vanguard from 1957 to 1959.