The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27, 1957, the Best Foreign Language Film category was introduced.

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

The CSU currently has three ministers in the cabinet of Germany of the federal government in Berlin, while party leader Horst Seehofer serves as Minister-President of Bavaria: a position that CSU representatives have held since 1957.

It was followed four years later by the San Francisco International Film Festival held in March 1957 whose emphasis was on feature-length dramatic films.

During 1956, an IAEA Statute Conference was held to draft the founding documents for the IAEA, and the IAEA Statute was completed at a conference in 1957.

Malaysia's predominant political party, the United Malays National Organization ( UMNO ), has held power in coalition known as the Barisan Nasional ( formerly the Alliance ) with other parties since Malaya's independence in 1957.

* 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

The basis of the dispute is over the identity of the Bahá ' í Guardian, a term referring to the appointed head of the religion, an executive hereditary office held by Shoghi Effendi from 1921 to 1957.

In Finland, another marathon bearing the name has been held in Nurmi's hometown of Turku since 1992, along with the athletics competition Paavo Nurmi Games that was started in 1957.

The first electoral contest held under universal suffreage were the municipal elections of November 1956, the first national contest the 1957 election of the Territorial Assembly.

In May 1957, Sierra Leone held its first parliamentary election.

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

# Saaremaa Velotuur is a group race of road cyclists that is oldest in the Nordic countries ( held since 1957 ) and the only international one in the Baltic states.

In 1957 Postgate was appointed a stage manager with Associated-Rediffusion, which then held the commercial television franchise for London.

British rule through a Sultan remained largely unchanged from the late 19th century until 1957, when elections were held for a largely advisory Legislative Council.

In 1957, a special tournament was held at the 53rd IOC session in Sofia, Bulgaria to support such request.

The Paris Carnival occurs after the Feast of Fools and dates back to the 16th century or earlier, although it was not held between 1952 and 1957.

In 1957, Andropov returned to Moscow from Budapest in order to head the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers ' Parties in Socialist Countries, a position he held until 1967.

When most former African colonies gained independence in 1957 / 1964, the Portuguese still held on.

The 1957 elections held under a new constitution demonstrated the extent of the growing ethnic division within the Guianese electorate.

" In their original formulation ( Chomsky 1957 ), these rules were stated as rules that held over strings of either terminals or constituent symbols or both.

After Byers moved to Kansas City, the championships would be held in Municipal in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1964.

The United Kingdom supposedly conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test at Malden Island on 15 May 1957 ; Christmas Island was the operation's main base.

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.

The United Kingdom detonated some of nuclear payload near and directly above Christmas Island in 1957 / 58, while the United States between 25 April and 11 July 1962 successfully tested nuclear devices of about payload altogether in the vicinity of the island.

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.

In 2007, Iranian filmmaker Maziar Bahari selected O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas ( 1957 ), a record of a day in the old Covent Garden market, for his top 10 classics from the history of documentary.

* Every Day Except Christmas ( 1957 )

The Antiguan and Barbudan Carnivals replaced the Old Time Christmas Festival in 1957, with hopes of inspiring tourism in Antigua and Barbuda.

In another law suit, Wayne Ritchie, a former United States Marshal, after hearing about the project's existence in 1990, alleged the CIA laced his food or drink with LSD at a 1957 Christmas party which resulted in his attempting to commit a robbery at a bar and his subsequent arrest.

The Five Spot residency ended Christmas 1957, Coltrane left to rejoin Miles Davis's seminal sextet, and the band was effectively disbanded.

In 1957, a white spruce was chosen from the town for display as the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.

He appeared in the Christmas 1957 episode of NBC's The Gisele MacKenzie Show.

The follow-up single to " Bambino ", the exotic-sounding and mesmerizing " Gondolier ", was released in the Christmas on 1957, was also a great success, as were other early releases such as " Come Prima ( Tu Me Donnes )", " Ciao Ciao Bambina ", and a cover of The Drifters ’ " Save the Last Dance for Me ", " Garde-Moi la Dernière Danse ".

* Christmas Eve with Burl Ives ( 1957, Decca DL 8391 )

Other recordings include Perry Como ( several times ), Andy Williams from The Andy Williams Christmas Album, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Jim Reeves from Twelve Songs of Christmas ( 1963 ), Elvis Presley from Elvis ' Christmas Album ( 1957 ), The Temptations ( 1968 ), Reba McEntire from Merry Christmas to You ( 1987 ); Mariah Carey from Merry Christmas ( 1994 ); Linda Ronstadt from A Merry Little Christmas ( 2000 ); Christina Aguilera from My Kind of Christmas ( 2000 ), Plus One from Christmas ( 2002 ), Josh Groban from Noël ( 2007 ); Tori Amos from Midwinter Graces ( 2009 ), Jackie Evancho from O Holy Night and Richard Marx from The Christmas EP ( 2011 ).

The daily activity of the market was the topic of a 1957 Free Cinema documentary by Lindsay Anderson, Every Day Except Christmas, which won the Grand Prix at the Venice Festival of Shorts and Documentaries.

* 1957: 4035 " Little Girl " / " It's Christmas Once Again "

A cover of the 1957 Bobby Helms classic " Jingle Bell Rock " was recorded and released in time for Christmas 1983, complete with a humorous video of the band, that received extensive airplay on MTV.