The Government submitted its proposed decree on October 25, 1957.

The date, October 8, 1957, immediately caught the inspector's eye.

The Explorer program was later reestablished to catch up with the Soviet Union after that nation's launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.

Changes in educational establishments came about as Americans and Europeans felt they had fallen behind the Soviet Union technologically after the success of Sputnik in October, 1957.

The first manual for FORTRAN appeared in October 1956, with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957.

Cover of U. S. lesbian publication ' The Ladder ( magazine ) | The Ladder ' from October 1957.

It was the same R-7 launch vehicle that placed the first artificial satellite in space, Sputnik, on 4 October 1957.

* Christopher Joseph Lewis ; born October 1957 to Patti Palmer

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

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.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer ( there is a crater on the lunar far side which bears his name ).

A search of the NSSDC Master Catalog at the end of October 2010 listed 6, 578 satellites launched into orbit since 1957, the latest being Chang ' e 2, on 1 October 2010.

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.

The early era of space exploration was driven by a " Space Race " between the Soviet Union and the United States, the launch of the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, the USSR's Sputnik 1, on 4 October 1957, and the first Moon landing by the American Apollo 11 craft on 20 July 1969 are often taken as the boundaries for this initial period.

The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.

" On Friday, October 4, 1957, the Soviets had orbited the world's first artificial satellite.

* 31 October 1956 to 24 April 1957 — Suez Canal is blocked to shipping following the planned invasion of the eastern Sinai by Israel, and later French and British, occupation of the Suez Canal Zone.

* Engineer Mahmoud Younis ( 10 July 1957 – 10 October 1965 )

In Shoghi Effendi's final message to the Baha ' i World, dated October 1957, he named the Hands of the Cause of God, " the Chief Stewards of Bahá ' u ' lláh's embryonic World Commonwealth.

* October 25 – Payne Stewart, American golfer ( b. 1957 )

* The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth on October 4, 1957.

* October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor ( b. 1957 )

* October 10 – Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler ( b. 1957 )

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.

introduction of the `` dialogue '' principle proved strikingly effective at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Catholic Association for International Peace in Washington the last weekend in October.

On October 8th of last year, the Industrial Division sponsored the Governor's Conference on Industrial Development at the former Henry Barnard School.

The grant, which stretched southward to Lake Traverse -- the headwaters of the Red -- was made in May, 1811, and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York Factory on Hudson Bay.

In western Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut, the Berkshires are at their vibrant prime the first week of October.

In September and October, the town remains at the mercy of the plague.

In comparison between the January to October periods of 2010 and 2009, depreciation stands at 4. 7 percent.

The urn arrived on 17 October 2006, going on display at the Museum of Sydney.

The " Theater am Bahnhof " ( Theatre at the Railway Station ) is mostly used by the Theatergruppe Lampenfieber and was opened on 19 October 2008.

A Canadian bagpiper playing " Amazing Grace " during a memorial service, October 29, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Wilson, Afghanistan

* 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.

Although at least three pads were planned, only two, designated A and B, were completed in October 1965.

The ancient sources say she poisoned Claudius on October 13, 54 with a plate of deadly mushrooms at a banquet, thus enabling Nero to quickly take the throne as emperor.

Alexander was born at Arca Caesarea on 1 October, 208, with the name Marcus Julius Gessius Bassianus Alexianus.

The wedding was celebrated at Torgau, the palace of the Queen of Poland, on 14 October 1711.

After Eschiva's death in October 1197 he married Isabella, the daughter of Amalric I of Jerusalem by his second marriage, and became King of Jerusalem in right of his wife and crowned at Acre in January 1198.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

The most distinguished funeral honors were paid to his remains, which were deposited in the temple at Possagno on 25 October 1822.

Per a News article on Page # 9 of the October 1984 issue of Acorn User, the Plus 3 was originally destined to have used the Intel 8272 disk controller, ( and not 8271, which were in short supply at the time ).

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

Corn growing at Grafton, Annapolis Valley in October 2011

Hill said in the October 1991 televised hearings that Thomas had sexually harassed her while he was her supervisor at the Department of Education and the EEOC.

In October 2010, Thomas's wife Virginia, a conservative activist, left a voicemail at Hill's office asking that Hill apologize for her 1991 testimony.

On October 3, 1999, Morita died of pneumonia at the age of 78.