* Capp, Al, Life Magazine ( January 14, 1957 ) " The Dogpatch Saga: Al Capp's Own Story "

* Dogpatch and Li ' l Abner on Broadway in Life, January 14, 1957, pp. 71 – 83

On January 22, 1957, Decca informed Holly his contract would not be renewed, insisting, however, that he could not record the same songs for anyone else for five years.

In January 1957, the team left its winter training facility at Naval Air Facility El Centro, California for a ten year period.

Campbell was awarded the CBE in January 1957 for his water speed record breaking, and in particular his record at Lake Mead in the USA which earned him and Britain very positive acclaim.

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.

-- Early FORTRAN Days ", January 1957, Computer History Vignettes

Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957 ) was an American actor and is widely regarded as a cultural icon.

Bogart had just turned 57 and weighed 80 pounds ( 36 kg ) when he died on January 14, 1957, after falling into a coma.

Irving Langmuir ( 31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957 ) was an American chemist and physicist.

* 1886 – Thomas January, American soccer player ( d. 1957 )

Robinson retired from baseball on January 5, 1957.

In 1957, Menon was instructed to deliver an unprecedented eight-hour speech defending India ’ s stand on Kashmir ; to date, the speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council, covering five hours of the 762nd meeting on the 23 of January, and two hours and forty-eight minutes on the 24th, reportedly concluding with Menon's collapse on the Security Council floor.

In 1957 he had the first solo exhibition of his paintings in New York at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and he had the final solo exhibition of his lifetime-Kenneth Noland Shaped Paintings 1981-82, which opened Oct 29 2009 at the Leslie Feely Fine Art Gallery on E. 68th St. in New York City and was scheduled to close January 9, 2010, though, the closing date was later extended to January 16.

* Transistor structure and method of making the same, filed March 1957, issued January 1961, assigned to Clevite Corporation

** 10 January 1956 – 4 June 1957 Hubert Ney ( b. 1892 – d. 1984 ), CDU

On 27 October 1956 the Saar Treaty declared that Saarland should be allowed to join the Federal Republic of Germany, which it did on 1 January 1957.

* " Strikebreaker " ( short story ), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories

Robbins was involved with Bells Are Ringing, then Bernstein with Candide, and in January 1957 A Clearing in the Woods, Laurents ' latest play, opened and quickly closed.

* January 23 – Raymond Griffith, American actor ( d. 1957 )

* January 31 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1957 )

* January 20 – Julia Morgan, American Architect ( d. 1957 )

* January 8 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics ( d. 1957 )

* January 4 – Sputnik 1 ( launched on October 4, 1957 ) falls to Earth from its orbit and burns up.

Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, the eldest child of Herbert and Gertrude Hepworth.

The first of the Vesey Stewart settlers arrived in Tauranga directly from London on the Lady Jocelyn on the 2 January 1881.

* Senator Jocelyn Newman: Minister for Family and Community Services, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women ( to 30 January 2001 )

Jocelyn Thibault ( Tee-BOW ) ( born January 12, 1975 ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres.

In January 1862, after many complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department, Lincoln replaced Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton as War Secretary.

* Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ( 5 April 1993 – 29 January 1996 )

Simon de Monfort's son, Simon VI de Montfort, promised in January 1266 to hand over the castle to the king.

That same year, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavily to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols ' film The Graduate, which was released on January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to No. 1 as an album.

Simon the Sorcerer is an adventure game that was released by Adventure Soft on 2 January 1993 for Amiga and MS-DOS formats.

* January 10 – Simon Marius, German astronomer ( d. 1624 )

* January 19 – Sir Simon Rattle, English conductor

In 2012 he starred with Simon Callow in the film " Acts of Gordfrey " which opened in UK cinemas on 27 January.

* January 9 – Simon Vouet, French painter ( d. 1649 )

* January 8 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( d. 1643 )

* January 4 – Simon II, Duke of Lorraine

* January 13 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1076 )

Earl Simon accepted Henry's offer to abide by the arbitration of Louis IX of France, and at Amiens, in January 1264, the French king decided that the Provisions were unlawful and invalid.

His eponymous album Paul Simon was released in January 1972, preceded by his first experiment with world music, the Jamaican-inspired " Mother and Child Reunion ", considered one of the first examples of reggae attempted by a white musician.

" In January 1985, Simon lent his talent to USA for Africa and performed on the relief fundraising single " We Are the World ".

Since the early stages of the nineties, Simon was fully involved on The Capeman, a musical that finally opened on January 29, 1998.

In January 1982, former US Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and a group of investors acquired Gibson Greetings, a producer of greeting cards, for $ 80 million, of which only $ 1 million was rumored to have been contributed by the investors.

The Shield predates Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Captain America by 15 months, and his sidekick Dusty, from Pep Comics # 11, January 1941, predates Cap's sidekick Bucky by three months.

File: Van Gogh-Der Pfarrgarten in Nuenen im Schnee1. jpeg | The Rectory Garden in Nuenen in the Snow, January 1885, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena ( F194 )

* January 27 – Paul Simon broadcasts on BBC radio for the first time, on their Five to Ten show, discussing and playing thirteen songs, twelve of which would appear on his May-recorded and August-released UK-only solo album, The Paul Simon Song Book.

* January 17 – Simon & Garfunkel release Sounds of Silence, which hits # 1 on Billboard charts.

* January 22 – Simon & Garfunkel give live concert at Philharmonic Hall in New York City.

* January 28 – Various artists, under the group name USA For Africa, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Steve Perry, Kenny Loggins, Willie Nelson, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Huey Lewis, Tina Turner, Sheila E., Harry Belafonte, Lindsey Buckingham, Kim Carnes, Dionne Warwick, Waylon Jennings, Bob Geldof and Stevie Wonder, record the song " We Are the World ".