- February 13
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1]
- February 14
- Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites. [1]
- February 17
- Fire in Warreton, Missouri, kills 72. [1]
- February 25
- US Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust-exempt professional sport. [1]
- March 9
- 8.1 earthquake shakes Andreanof Islands, Alaska, USA. [1]
- March 16
- In Burbank, California, the 9th Annual Emmy Awards are presented, hosted by Desi Arnaz.
- Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series: Robert Young for Father Knows Best
- Best Continuing Performance by an Actress in a Dramatic Series: Loretta Young for Letter to Loretta
- Best Continuing Performance by a Comedian in a Series: Sid Caesar for Caesar's Hour
- Best New Program Series: Playhouse 90
- Best Public Service Series: See It Now
- Best Series Half Hour or Less: The Phil Silvers Show
- Best Series One Hour or More: Caesar's Hour
- Best Single Performance by an Actor: Jack Palance for Playhouse 90
- Best Single Performance by an Actress: Claire Trevor for Producers' Showcase
- Best Supporting Performance by an Actor: Carl Reiner for Caesar's Hour
- Best Supporting Performance by an Actress: Pat Carroll for Caesar's Hour
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- March 22
- Earthquake gives San Francisco, California the shakes. [1]
- March 23
- US army sells last homing pigeons. [1]
- March 27
- 29th Academy Awards: Around World in 80 Days, Yul Brynner, and Ingrid Bergman win. [1]
- April 7
- Last of New York's electric trolleys completes its final run. [1]
- April 13
- 11th Tony Awards: Long Days Journey into the Night and My Fair Lady win. [1]
- Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is temporarily halted. [1]
- April 15
- Saturday mail delivery restored after US Congress gives Post Office US$41 million. [1]
- April 29
- First military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA. [1]
- May 1
- US gives Poland credit of US$95 million. [1]
- Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km. [1]
- May 4
- Alan Freed hosts Rock n' Roll Show, first prime-time network rock show. [1]
- May 15
- 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launches a crusade. [1]
- May 16
- Major Irwin, US Air Force flies a Lockheed Starfighter to a record 1,404.18 MPH. [1]
- US launches its third atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton, Connecticut. [1]
- May 17
- Prayer Pilgrimage takes place; biggest American civil rights demonstration to date (District of Columbia). [1]
- May 24
- Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan. [1]
- May 28
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. [1]
- June 5
- New York narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes. [1]
- June 6
- The decision of the Automobile Manufacturers Association (in the USA) to ban race involvement is announced. The ban on racing involvement includes not helping others, not supply pace cars, not publicize any results, not advertise any features of passenger cars that suggest speed. [8]
- June 17
- Tuskegee boycott begins (blacks boycott city stores). [1]
- June 27
- 390 die by Hurricane Audrey in coastal Louisiana and Texas, USA. [1]
- President Dwight Eisenhower issues an executive order creating the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board. [506.40]
- July 2
- First submarine powered by liquid metal cooled reactor completed-the Seawolf. [1]
- First submarine designed to fire guided missiles launched, Grayback. [1]
- July 12
- First American President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower. [1]
- July 19
- First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada, USA. [1]
- August 1
- First commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico). [1]
- August 15
- US Air Force Captain Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 metres in F-104 jet fighter. [1]
- August 20
- US Air Force balloon breaks an altitude record at 102,000 feet (310,896 metres). [1]
- August 28
- US Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill. [1]
- August 29
- Strom Thurmond (Senator-Democrat-South Carolina) ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights. [1]
- US Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957. [1]
- September 4
- Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel car. [1] [5]
- September 9
- Nashville, Tennessee's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School is dynamited. [1]
- September 17
- Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for first powered flight. [1]
- September 19
- First underground nuclear explosion (Las Vegas, Nevada). [1] [5]
- September 24
- US President Dwight Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools. [1] [5]
- September 25
- 300 US Army troops guard nine black kids' return to Central High School in Arkansas. [1]
- September 26
- Musical West Side Story opens on Broadway. [1] [5]
- October 1
- "In God We Trust" first appears on U.S. paper currency. [5]
- B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack. [1]
- October 10
- US President Dwight Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware, restaurant. [1]
- The ABC TV network debuts the third Disney TV show, Zorro, in the USA. [6]
- October 11
- US Air Force Colonel Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn is killed in the crash of a Twin Beech plane in the Philippines. [158.86]
- October 12
- First commercial flight between California and Antarctica. [1]
- October 23
- First test firing of Vanguard satellite launch vehicle, TV-3. [1]
- November 2
- The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, USA, generates national publicity. [5]
- First titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio, USA. [1]
- November 15
- US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and US$3,000 fine. [1]
- November 25
- US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech. [1]
- December 2
- First US full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Shippingport, Pennsylvania. [1]
- December 5
- New York City becomes first city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law). [1]
- December 6
- First US attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up. [1]
- AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (re-admitted in October 1987). [1]
- December 12
- Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo. [1]
- US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond). [1]
- December 17
- US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. [1]
- December 19
- The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, opens at Majestic Theater in New York City for 1375 performances. [1]
- December 31
- Disneyland in Anaheim, California, welcomes its 10-millionth guest. [6]
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