As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.

In 1957, following the independence of Indonesia, Kalimantan was divided into three provinces: South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan.

In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days.

* 1957 – Mike South, American Pornographer

* 1957 – Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.

Sir Eric Woodward, the first New South Wales-born person appointed as Governor ( 1957 – 65 )

Between 1788 and 1957, all governors were born outside of New South Wales and were often members of the Peerage.

However, as Northcott was born in Victoria, it was not until Sir Eric Woodward's appointment by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 that the position was filled by a New South Wales-born individual ; this practice continued until 1996, when Queen Elizabeth II commissioned as her representative Gordon Samuels, a London-born immigrant to Australia.

1957 saw Holden's export markets grow to 17 countries, with new additions including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Fiji, Sudan, the East Africa region and South Africa.

Ellen Greve was born in 1957 in New South Wales, of post-war Norwegian migrant parents.

* 1957 South Africa

* Benaud's highest Test score of 122 was made against South Africa, Johannesburg, 1957 – 1958

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

* 1957 – Kepler Wessels, South African cricketer

As opposition to Diệm's rule in South Vietnam grew, a low-level insurgency began to take shape there in 1957.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

These included the locomotives and stock for the Epping – Ongar shuttle until electrification in 1957, freight trains to sidings including at Fairlop, Barkingside, Buckhurst Hill, Theydon Bois, South Woodford, Loughton,, and ) until the mid-1960s, and early-morning and late-night trains between Liverpool Street and Epping, latterly DMUs, last running on 31 May 1970 ).

A large monument to commemorate the arrival of the Huguenots in South Africa was inaugurated on 7 April 1948 at Franschhoek, where the Huguenot Memorial Museum was erected in 1957.

The Amundsen – Scott South Pole Station was erected as the first permanent structure at the South Pole in January 1957.

He visited Moscow in November 1957 and received the green light for his war plans regarding the South.

In December 1957, Hồ told the 13th Plenary Session of a " dual revolution "; Chinh became responsible for the socialist transformation of North Vietnam, while Lê focused on planning the offensive in South Vietnam.

Shortly after writing The Road to the South, Lê was appointed to the Secretariat in 1956, and in 1957, he was given a seat in the Politburo.

The city officially incorporated January 30, 1957 following a successful " Save Paramount for Paramount " campaign to fight annexation by Long Beach, Bellflower, and South Gate.

Though militarily victorious in the 1957 – 1958 Moroccan invasion of Spanish West Africa, Spain gradually relinquished its remaining African colonies.

Turnbull remained in Oxford for two years before another field trip to Africa, finally focusing on the Belgian Congo ( 1957 – 58 ) and Uganda.

Wright contracted Amoebic dysentery on a visit to Africa in 1957, and despite various treatments, his health deteriorated over the next three years.

Goodall had always been passionate about animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of a friend in the Kenya highlands in 1957.

Richard's parents founded the Dalmatian Club of East Africa and won a prize in 1957.

The Africanized honey bees in the Western Hemisphere are of mixed descent from 26 Tanganyikan queen bees of A. m. scutellata, accidentally released by a replacement bee-keeper in 1957 near Rio Claro, São Paulo, in the southeast of Brazil, from hives operated by biologist Warwick E. Kerr, who had interbred honey bees from Europe and southern Africa.

In 1957 he made his debut in South Africa in lead roles in Separate Tables.

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.

In 1950 his ministry reached Manila, Japan in 1957, the United States in 1958, and extending to other countries in the Americas and Africa, including Ghana by 1972.

Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone ( born Prince Alexander of Teck ; 14 April 187416 January 1957 ), was the husband of Princess Alice of Albany ( a granddaughter of Queen Victoria ) and a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the country's fourth, and as Governor General of Canada, the 16th since Canadian Confederation.

In 1957, as the National Party government, elected in 1948, continued to roll out its policy of apartheid, Wits, along with University of Cape Town, Rhodes University and the University of Natal, issued a joint statement entitled " The Open Universities in South Africa ", committing themselves to the principles of university autonomy and academic freedom.

After 1957 he worked in South America, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and South Africa and as the counsel of the German minister Franz Josef Strauß.

Die Stem van Suid-Afrika () was the national anthem of South Africa from 1957 to 1994, and shared national anthem status with Nkosi Sikelel ' iAfrika until 1997, when a new hybrid anthem was adopted.

After some recordings with Kid Ory's band, he spent most of the 1950s with the Wilbur de Paris band, including a tour of Africa in 1957.

On March 31, 1957, he was elected Grand Counsellor of AOF ( French Occidental Africa ) on an MDV list ( Voltaic Democratic Movement ), and two months later, he was appointed minister of the agricultural economy in the first council of government headed by Mr. Yvon Bourges, last French Governor in Upper-Volta ( May 18, 1957 ) that was later replaced by Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly.

From around 1957 until quite recently, Samuel Armistead ( UC Davis ) with colleagues Joseph Silverman and Israel Katz collected the Judeo-Spanish song tradition from informants in North America, Turkey, the Balkans, Greece, North Africa, and Israel.

In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley, the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa.

The Centurion tank was in use by the South Africans since 1957 – at first, 250 Mk 2 and Mk 3 Centurions bought directly from the UK, but later, South Africa bought Mk 5 Centurions from India and Jordan.

In 1957, in an effort to introduce the sport of rugby league to South Africa, Great Britain and France played the first of a series of three exhibition matches in Benoni.