* 1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ).

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

* 1957 – Michael Cretu, Romanian-German musician and producer ( Moti Special, Enigma, and Trance Atlantic Air Waves )

( 1952 ); Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar ; and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara ( 1957 ), Joshua Logan's adaption of James Michener's 1954 novel.

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.

Sixteenth Air Force managed SAC operations in Morocco and Spain from 1957 to 1966.

The Strategic Air Command established SSB as the radio standard for its aircraft in 1957.

He became a Lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force on 5 November 1957 ; on 6 November 1959 he received the rank of Senior Lieutenant.

In October 1956, he entered test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, California and returned to Wright-Patterson in May 1957 as a test pilot assigned to the fighter branch.

1957 – 58 he played in the musical Free as Air and then toured in Eugene O ' Neill's The Iceman Cometh.

By 1957, BAS's airline subsidiaries included Air Kruise, Aquila Airways, Britavia, the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and the original Manx Airlines, apart from Silver City Airways itself.

On January 1, 1957, the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission selected the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ( LLNL ) predecessor, the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, to study the feasibility of applying heat from nuclear reactors to ramjet engines.

LeMay was appointed Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in July 1957, serving until 1961, when he was made the fifth Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force on the retirement of Gen Thomas White.

From June 1957 to December 1961, Allen was assigned to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, as the science adviser to the Physics Division of the Air Force Special Weapons Center.

During his time as prime minister, average living standards steadily rose while numerous social reforms were carried out such as the 1956 Clean Air Act, the 1957 Housing Act, the 1960 Offices Act, the 1960 Noise Abatement Act, the Factories Act 1961, the introduction of a graduated pension scheme to provide an additional income to retirees, and a reduction in the standard workweek from 48 to 42 hours.

In the Middle East, faced by the 1958 collapse of the Baghdad Pact and the spread of Soviet influence, Macmillan acted decisively to restore the confidence of Persian Gulf allies, using the Royal Air Force and special forces to defeat a revolt backed by Saudi Arabia and Egypt against the Sultan of Oman, Said bin Taimur, in July 1957, deploying airborne battalions to defend Jordan against Syrian subversion in July 1958, and deterring a threatened Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by landing a brigade group in July 1960.

On 25 March 1957 Macmillan acceded to Eisenhower's request to base 60 Thor IRBMs in England under joint control, to replace the nuclear bombers of the Strategic Air Command, which had been stationed under joint control in the country since 1948, and were approaching obsolescence.

In 1957, three U. S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bombers made the first nonstop round-the-world flight by turbojet aircraft.

: Re-designated: Air Proving Ground Command, 20 December 1951 – 1 December 1957

* Air Research and Development Command, 1 December 1957

A major expansion of the facilities in 1957 created the basis for today's full-spectrum research facility encompassing more than of the northeast corner of Edwards Air Force Base.

In June 1957, North Camp Cooke was renamed Cooke Air Force Base, and on 21 June 1957 was transferred to the Air Force.

On 6 March 1957 General Burns was able to report to the Secretary-General of the UN that the " United Nations Emergency Force troops are now in position in all camps and centres of population in Gaza Strip ".

The work was already in process when the Air Force hosted the official ground breaking ceremonies on 8 May 1957.

After World War II, the Air Force in Hawai ‘ i consisted primarily of the Air Transport Command and its successor, the Military Air Transport Service ( MATS ), until 1 July 1957 when Headquarters Far East Air Forces completed its move from Japan to Hawai ‘ i and was redesignated the Pacific Air Forces ( PACAF ).

* Clovis Air Force Base, 13 January 1948-7 June 1957

* Cannon Air Force Base, 8 June 1957 – present

Richard Douglas Husband ( July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003 ) was a United States Air Force Colonel, an astronaut, and the space shuttle commander of STS-107 ( Columbia ) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.

He enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1957, where he served as a reciprocating engine mechanic at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas.

The group began in 1957 with 14 singers, two of which were freshman ( 4 / c cadets ).

* Jan 20, 1957, The Highty-Tighties won their second consecutive Presidential Inaugural parade, again marching for President Eisenhower.

In December 1957 the Inaugural Meeting of an Old Boys Association was held at the School.

The CHUM Chart debuted on May 27, 1957, under the name CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade, was in response to the fast growing diversity of music that needed to be subdivided and categorized.

The Parade was founded in 1957 and has grown into one of the largest celebrations of German and German-American culture in the United States.

The original Mentone Fire station was located on the corner of Brindisi Street and Mentone Parade, Mentone in 1906 and after the new fire station was built it was relocated to Lalor in 1957.

From 1952 to 1957, he was best known as a vocalist on Your Hit Parade, an NBC television series that reviewed the popular songs of the day and on which a regular cast of vocalists would perform the top seven songs of the week.

The company had been the sponsor of an earlier animal-related show, Zoo Parade, that Perkins had hosted from 1952 until 1957.

The CHUM Chart debuted on May 27, 1957, under the name CHUM's Weekly Hit Parade, to 1986, and was the longest-running Top 40 chart in Canada.

The Rockettes perform annually at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ( since 1957 ) and the America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit.

The Anglican parish church of New Addington is St Edward's Church at the end of Central Parade, built in 1957.

* 1957 – Ivo Josipović, Croatian politician, 3rd President of Croatia

In July 1957, former Conservative President Laureano Gómez ( 1950 – 1953 ) and former Liberal President Alberto Lleras ( 1945 – 1946, 1958 – 1962 ) issued the " Declaration of Sitges ," in which they proposed a " National Front ," whereby the Liberal and Conservative parties would govern jointly.

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.

Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon with their host, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Washington 1957

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

* 1957 – Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan

There were constituent assembly elections in 1957 which appointed Ramón Villeda as President, and itself becoming a national Congress with a 6-year term.

Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana.

* 1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.

* 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines ( 1957 – 1960 ) ( d. 1971 )

* 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.

* 1869 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil ( d. 1957 )

* 1957 – Paul Kagame, Rwandan politician, 6th President of Rwanda

The President of the European Commission was established in 1957 with the European Commission.

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

* 1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

Nixon was also the first Vice President to assume temporary control of the executive branch, which he did after Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on September 24, 1955, ileitis in June 1956, and a stroke in November 1957.

On September 24, 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard in order to ensure the safe entry of the Little Rock 9 to Little Rock Central High School the following day.

In 1926, he founded Fianna Fáil, and was head of government ( President of the Executive Council, later Taoiseach ) from 1932 to 1948, 1951 to 1954, and 1957 to 1959, when he resigned after being elected as President of Ireland.

While President John F. Kennedy gets credit for creating the Peace Corps, the first initiative came from Humphrey when he introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957 — three years prior to JFK and his University of Michigan speech.

In 1957 the American Central Intelligence Agency proposed to President Dwight Eisenhower that peace in the Middle East could be achieved by flooding the Qattara Depression.

On her return to the region in 1957, she was inaugurated as the College's President, and attended other events that were deliberately designed to be multi-racial.

The success of this campaign inspired U. S. President Dwight Eisenhower to dub Diệm the " miracle man " when he visited the U. S. in May 1957.