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

Alex graduated from the University of Ottawa High School ( Oblates of Mary Immaculate-OMI ) in 1957 before graduating from Toronto's Malvern Collegiate Institute in 1958, and later the University of Ottawa with a degree in philosophy in 1961.

In 1957, after an International League game in Toronto between his Montreal Royals and the Maple Leafs baseball team President Bouchard complained about Toronto's excessive conference trips to the mound.

Three versions were offered, running at 5 MHz ( 1957 ), 500 kHz ( 1959 ), or 10 MHz ( 1960 ).

KLAN became a full-time station broadcasting with 1, 000 Watts at 910 kHz in 1957.

WCOW was not very successful, so the station transitioned to a female-oriented format with the call sign WISK in 1957, and the frequency was changed to 630 kHz the next year.

The station originally owned by Gordon W. Burnett's Wellport Broadcasting Ltd. was launched in 1957 as CHOW, located at 1470 kHz on the AM dial.

In 1957, CBAF 1300 kHz had a radiated power of 5, 000 watts and used a single directional antenna pattern.

It first began broadcasting in 1957 at 1290 kHz before moving to its current dial position in 1968.

* 1957 – Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.

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

* 1957 – Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada.

* 1957 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.

Malacca is the first city in Southeast Asia to be taken by a Western nation, gaining home rule only in 1957 when it becomes part of Malaysia.

Her first, The Comforters ( 1957 ), concerns a woman who becomes aware that she is a character in a novel ; The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1961 ), at times takes the reader briefly into the distant future to see the various fates that befall its characters.

* 1957-Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction

* 1957: Two Italian ( Claudio Corti and Stefano Longhi ) and two German climbers ( Franz Meyer and Gunther Nothdurft ) encounter extreme difficulties in the higher part of the route, as Nothdurft becomes ill and Longhi, who is suffering from severe frostbite, falls near " the Spider " and cannot be lifted by his companions.

Schulberg wrote the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd starring newcomer Andy Griffith in which an obscure country singer rises to fame, and becomes extraordinarily manipulative to preserve his success and power.

* 1957 Larry Lutchmansingh becomes the first Naparima College boy to obtain an Open Scholarship.

* 1957: The Bey of Tunisia is deposed, and Bourguiba becomes president.

* 1957 Akan Village becomes Akan Town

* 1957 Charlie Brower, who was hired as a copywriter with the Batten Co. just before the merger with BDO, becomes president.