Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

In August 1957, the Crickets were the only white performers on a national tour including black neighborhood theaters.

( 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.

Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18, 1957 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer.

* August Euler ( 1868 – 1957 ) German pioneer aviator

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

The first successful test followed on 21 August 1957 ; the R-7 flew over 6000 km and became the world's first ICBM.

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

John " Jack " Butler Yeats ( 29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957 ) was an Irish artist and Olympic medallist.

In August 1957, Mohammed V assumed the title of king.

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* Six-Five Special, first aired on 31 August 1957.

Sheldon Rampton ( born August 4, 1957 ) was the American editor of PR Watch, and is the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda.

After auditions in Washington, D. C. and Philadelphia beginning in August 1957, the original Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957 to positive reviews.

* August 3 – King Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )

* August 15 – Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet, historian ( d. 1957 )

* August 10 – Alfred Döblin, German writer ( d. 1957 )

* August 26 – Laura Branigan, American singer ( b. 1957 )

Chaffee married Martha Horn in Oklahoma City on August 24, 1957, whom he met while on a blind date in September 1955, and had two children, Sheryl Lyn ( born 17 November 1958 ) and Stephen ( born 3 July 1961 ).

Following graduation, Chaffee completed his Navy training on August 22, 1957 and was commissioned as an Ensign in the U. S. Navy.

When the Committeee for Non-Violent Action sponsored a protest in August, 1957, at the Camp Mercury nuclear test site near Las Vegas, Nevada, 13 of the protesters attempted to enter the test site knowing that they faced arrest.

He was first married to Maxine Caroll Lawrence in 1956 at age 18, with whom he had four children: Terry Vance Jennings ( born January 21, 1957 ), Julie Rae Jennings ( born August 12, 1958 ), Buddy Dean Jennings ( born March 21, 1960 ), and Deana Jennings.

Burton also adopted Taylor's daughter by the late producer Mike Todd, Elizabeth Frances " Liza " Todd Burton ( born 6 August 1957 ).

* Gregorian Rhythm in the Gregorian Centuries by Dom Gregory Murray, Caecilia ; a Review of Catholic Church Music, Volume 84, No. 3, p177, August 1957 ; also published by Downside Abbey, Bath

Marc Roger Maurice Louis Bohan, ( born 22 August 1926, in Paris ) is a French fashion designer, best known for his 30 year career at the house of Dior.

In August 2011, it was reported that Jacobs may succeed John Galliano as creative director of Christian Dior.

On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.

In August, an official visit to the territory by then French President, General Charles de Gaulle, was also met with demonstrations and rioting.

There he remained while Vermont declared independence, and John Burgoyne's campaign for the Hudson River met a stumbling block near Bennington in August 1777.

In May of that year, a group of Quito notables met to dissolve the union with Gran Colombia, and in August, a constituent assembly drew up a constitution for the State of Ecuador, so named for its geographic proximity to the equator, and placed General Flores in charge of political and military affairs.

In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.

Gygax met Dave Arneson, the future co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, at the second Gen Con in August 1969.

In August 1922, the presidents of Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador met on the U. S. S.

He did, however, correspond regularly with other contemporary writers, such as Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth, people who became good friends of his, even though they never met in person.

Haryana has adopted a new sports policy on 21 August 2009, when Haryana Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda, approved the Sports Policy, 2009.

President Wahid has pursued better relations with Israel, and in August 2000 he met with former Israeli Prime Minister Peres.

On August 15, 1959, she married John Blume whom she had met while a student at New York University ; the wedding was held in the summer of her sophomore year of college.

On 11 August 1939, Ribbentrop met the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Count Bernardo Attolico, in Salzburg.

On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Attolico to tell him that Poland's " rejection " of the " generous " German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig.

It was in Paris that, on 28 August 1844, Marx met German socialist Friedrich Engels at the Café de la Régence after becoming interested in the ideas that the latter had expressed in articles written for the Rheinische Zeitung and the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher.

The pinnacle of the rivalry came on August 17, 1969 when both the Jets and Giants met for the first time, in a preseason game which was viewed as a " turf war " by both opponents.

On 3 August representatives from the " Warsaw Five " and Czechoslovakia met in Bratislava and signed the Bratislava Declaration.

Honorius travelled to Benevento, and after safeguarding the interests of Robert of Capua, he met Roger on the Pons Major, the bridge which crosses the Sabbato river near Benevento, on 22 August 1128.

In Germany, the Electors met at Rhense on 20 August 1400 to depose the unworthy Wenceslaus as German King and chose in his place Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and Rhenish Count Palatine.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame met with the Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Joseph Kabila in Goma on 6 August 2009.

The Red Brigades were founded in August 1970 by Renato Curcio and Margherita ( Mara ) Cagol, who had met as students at the University of Trento and later married, and Alberto Franceschini.

On 22 August 1485, Richard met the outnumbered forces of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

In August 2001, Mahmood and one of his colleagues at Mahmood's Ummah Tameer-e-Nau charity met with Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan.