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

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.

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.

A 1957 U. S. Navy study known as the Crittenden Report dismissed the charge that homosexuals constitute a security risk, but advocated stringent anti-homosexual policies because " Homosexuality is wrong, it is evil, and it is to be branded as such.

DARPA was established during 1958 ( as ARPA ) in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik during 1957, with the mission of keeping U. S. military technology more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies.

He sold the rights to Wham-O on January 23, 1957 ( his 37th birthday ), and the following year, Morrison was awarded U. S. Design Patent D183, 626 for his flying disc.

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

The Baltimore News Post reported in 1957 that had Singer's arguments about the need for satellites been heeded, the U. S. could have beaten Russia by launching the first earth satellite.

Cover of U. S. lesbian publication ' The Ladder ( magazine ) | The Ladder ' from October 1957.

Former U. S. Congressman W. Sterling Cole served as the IAEA's first Director General from 1957 to 1961.

* 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U. S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

* 1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U. S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U. S. state of Georgia.

Mark Edward Whitacre ( born May 1, 1957 ) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland ( ADM ), he was the highest-level corporate executive in U. S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) whistleblower.

* 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U. S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.

* 1957 – Bob Ehrlich, American politician, former Member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Maryland, and the 60th Governor of Maryland

* 1957 – U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant.

* 1957 – The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U. K. is the world's first major nuclear accident.