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1957
January
January 1: Arturo Toscanini suffers a stroke at his home in New York City.
January 2: The SSM-A-23 Dart anti-tank missile enters service with the United States Army.
January 3: Trans-World Airlines becomes the first civil airline to offer freshly brewed coffee to passengers.
January 4: Jackie Robinson announces his retirement from Major League baseball.
January 5: South African cricketer Russell Endean becomes the first man to be dismissed for handling the ball in a Test Match.
January 6: Italian motorists report a strange, silent migration of giant frogs through Tuscany.
January 7: A bomb is set off in an Algiers cafe, killing 11 people.
January 8: The first commercial electricity is produced by the Shippingport atomic power station in the United States in Pennsylvania
January 9: German research alchemists conclude that the newly discovered drug thalidomide should not be used by pregnant women.
January 10: Restrictions on public gatherings are lifted in Egypt as the country gradually returns to normalcy.
January 11: Jack Graham is executed by gas chamber in Colorado for the murder of his mother and 44 others in the bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 on November 1st 1955.
January 12: Plans for the construction of a pair of small modern aircraft carriers for the Royal Swedish Navy are finalised.
January 13: The Wham-O Company produces the first frisbee.
January 14: Humphrey Bogart dies of cancer in California, aged 57.
January 15: Release of Throne of Blood, a Japanese adaption of Macbeth, directed by Akira Kurosawa.
January 16: Soviet diplomats propose a phased reduction of the presence of troops in Central Europe to reduce tensions.
January 17: A survey of public opinion in Britain finds an increase in support for independent television broadcasting.
January 18: Three USAF B-52 Stratofortresses complete the fastest round the world flight, recording an average speed of 642mph.
January 19: A high altitude Soviet nuclear test above Kapustin Yar fizzles, causing considerable consternation.
January 20: The Communist Party achieves an expected victory in the Polish national elections, receiving over 99% of the vote.
January 21: President Thompson is sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan at his inauguration in Washington D.C.
January 22: George P. Metesky is arrested on suspicion of being the notorious 'Mad Bomber'.
January 23: Chinese officials offer to end the state of war between China and Japan in return for normalised relations.
January 24: The Indian government commissions a white paper on the promotion of industrial development.
January 25: Raoul Wallenberg is appointed as Swedish ambassador to Israel.
January 26: Opening of the Ibirapuera Planetarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
January 27: 13 cars are involved in a bizarre pile-up that leaves them hanging precariously off the edge of a sharp cliff in New Jersey.
January 28: A bomb explodes in a Parisian cafe. Responsibility is claimed by a mysterious group calling themselves The Black Circle.
January 29: The Ford Motor Company becomes a publicly traded entity.
January 30: Completion of the Trans-Persian Pipeline.
January 31: A Douglas DC-7 collides with an USAF F-89 Scorpion over the San Fernando Valley, killing five in the air and a further four on the ground as the DC-7 crashes onto a high school playing field.
February
February 1: Death of retired German Field Marshal Frederick von Paulus in Dresden.
February 2: FBI Director Ness declares that the vestiges of organised crime will be expunged from American public life.
February 3: France declares that it will not allow League of Nations observers unrestricted access to ongoing security operations in Algeria.
February 4: A coal gas explosion in a mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.
February 5: US experts declare that the advance of modern technology has made dragons obsolete in warfare.
February 6: Martian inspired fashions sweep a number of fashion shows in Paris, launching a brief craze for Martian clothing.
February 7: First successful test of the SSM-A-24 battlefield multipurpose guided missile at White Sands, New Mexico. It is designed to fill a perceived niche between the Dart ATGM and longer range artillery.
February 8: Commissioning of the first Project 627 class atomic submarine in the Soviet Union.
February 9: The US Army begins secret testing of an experimental serum for enhanced physical capabilities on volunteers in California.
February 10: Foundation of the Confederation of African Football in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia.
February 11: A plot to steal the beef reserved for the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London is thwarted by three young adventurers.
February 12: American researchers announce the development of a new formula of superhard steel armour.
February 13: The Soviet Union claims it has developed the world's most powerful rocket.
February 14: Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry officials arrive in Berlin for talks with the German government.
February 15: Andrei Gromyko becomes Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union.
February 16: Release of Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal in Sweden.
February 17: A fire at an elderly people's home in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72.
February 18: Walter James Bolton is hanged at Mount Eden Prison, Auckland for the murder of his wife.
February 19: Commercial hovercraft services across the English Channel are reinstated.
February 20: First successful test of a nuclear thermal rocket engine.
February 21: The Malayan colonial government declares an end to the state of emergency
February 22: Several Republican Congressmen call for an increase in tariffs on British products.
February 23: Masked gunmen rob two banks in Belgrade, making off with substantial amounts of cash.
February 24: A bombing of a bank in Hamburg is claimed by the Black Circle.
February 25: The body of an unidentified young boy is found on a Philadelphia sidewalk, sparking the 'Body in the Box' investigation.
February 26: German economists estimate that Germany will overtake Britain to become the second largest economy in the world by 1960.
February 27: The first British atomic ballistic missile submarine begins construction at Barrow.
February 28: Sales begin of the Ferranti Argus computing engine.
March
March 1: Publication of The Cat in the Hat in the United States.
March 2: Formation of Sud Aviation after a merger between SNCASE and SNCASO.
March 3: Housing construction and automotive sales in the United States fall for a third consecutive month.
March 4: First publication of the S&P 500 Index in the United States by Standard & Poor's.
March 5: An accident-prone Frenchman wrecks havoc in a new department store in Paris.
March 6: The Thieves' Guild of London offers a reward of £500,000 for information on the Black Circle gang.
March 7: King Abdullah signs an extension of the Anglo-Jordanian Security Treaty for a further 10 years.
March 8: Royal Canadian Air Force fighters attempt to intercept a UFO over Baffin Island, but it soon disappears beyond their reach.
March 9: The Gold Coast is granted internal self-government within British West Africa.
March 10: A meeting of prominent British intellectuals and pacifists opposed to nuclear weapons takes place in London.
March 11: American Polar explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd dies in Boston.
March 12: Establishment of the first heavy tank battalions of the German Army.
March 13: Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa is arrested by the FBI and charged with bribery.
March 14: US officials begins discussions with France, Italy and Japan on the forward deployment of Thor medium range ballistic missiles; talks with Britain have been on indefinite hold since the events of the previous year.
March 15: President Sukarno declares a state of emergency and martial law throughout Indonesia.
March 16: Reports reach London that a group of natives in the New Hebrides have begun to worship Prince Phillip as a deity.
March 17: 24 people, including Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, are killed in the crash of a C-47 in Cebu.
March 18: Japanese scientists exhibit the prototype of a humanoid robot child.
March 19: US Marines complete the replacement of earlier amtracks with the new LVT-6.
March 20: The Korean government announces that a nationwide referendum will be held on the future form of government for the country.
March 21: General elections in Thailand are cast in doubt after widespread allegations of vote rigging and corruption.
March 22: Installation of new coastal defence missiles in Gibraltar.
March 23: Tibetan authorities report increased unrest in border villages and communities in Kham.
March 24: Britain and Germany sign a confidential memorandum of understanding regarding security guarantees in the event of armed conflict with the Soviet Union.
March 25: Initiation of Project Orion in the United States.
March 26: Beginning of US Navy exercises in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
March 27: The Mona Lisa goes missing from the Louvre, sparking a firestorm of global attention and speculation.
March 28: Imperial Japanese Navy air patrols detect signs of a large sea creature around Marcus Island. The Japanese military goes on alert for the next two weeks.
March 29: Around the World in Eighty Days wins Best Picture at the 29th Academy Awards, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr winning Best Actor and Best Actress for The King and I.
March 30: A conference begins in Bern regarding the mutual reduction of Western and Soviet troops in Europe.
March 31: US consumer confidence shows its first signs of rising in several months as automotive and consumer goods sales begin to increase.
April
April 1: A BBC television report describes the workings of the annual harvest of spaghetti trees in Switzerland.
April 2: The Distant Early Warning Line is activated in Canada under the control of the US and Canadian Armed Forces.
April 3: Marshal Zhukov is forced to retire in the latest indications of considerable change in the top echelon of Soviet politics.
April 4: Singapore is granted domestic self rule within the British Empire.
April 5: The first anime series, Saiyu-ki, is broadcast on NHK in Japan.
April 6: Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis establishes Olympic Airlines from a number of smaller carriers.
April 7: A series of tornadoes cause significant damage across the Carolinas.
April 8: Local elections in Burma result in resounding victories for nationalist candidates.
April 9: Dr. John Bodkin Adams is found guilty of the murder of a patient and sentenced to death by hanging.
April 10: French police and Interpol report a number of promising leads regarding the Mona Lisa.
April 11: Commissioning of the Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi.
April 12: The United States conducts a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
April 13: Release of Twelve Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda.
April 14: Colonial authorities in Kenya declare an end to the state of emergency, marking the official conclusion of the Mau-Mau Rebellion.
April 15: Saturday mail delivery in the United States is restored after a brief interruption due to industrial action.
April 16: Pan-Arab nationalists meet in Turkey to plan a new strategy for regional independence and unity.
April 17: Formation of the Icelandic People's Party, which calls for an end to the presence of foreign troops.
April 18: Beachgoers at Acapulco are attacked by sharks falling from the sky in a freak event sparked by a tornado.
April 19: A large supercarrier is laid down in Toulon, France.
April 20: Studies begin in the United States on the logistical requirements of a voyage of exploration beyond the asteroid belt.
April 21: Pope Pius XII issues the encyclical Fidei Donum, on the issue of Catholic missions in Africa.
April 22: John Bodkin Adams is hanged at Pentridge Prison.
April 23: First broadcast of The Sky at Night on BBC television.
April 24: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, destroying hundreds of buildings around the city of Fethiye.
April 25: Controlled nuclear fission at the Sodium Reactor Experimental facility in Southern California.
April 26: An Admiralty study proposes the construction of two small-scale Floating Fortresses to be located between Shetland and Norway and in the Dogger Bank to provide optimal anti-submarine and anti-aircraft defence for the North Sea approaches to Britain.
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April 28: Anti-colonial protests and violence begin anew in the Belgian Congo.
April 29: Vessels of the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet delivery relief supplies to victims of the Turkish earthquake.
April 30: Interpol agents discover the Mona Lisa inside a well in a small village in the Black Forest. It is returned to France, but the culprits remain at large.
May
May 1: A large super battleship is laid down in Leningrad.
May 2: Fighting breaks out in Eastern Tibet as rebellious locals ambush a military patrol.
May 3: The Imperial Chinese Navy conducts its most extensive oceanic exercises since the Korean War, closely shadowed by US and Japanese ships and aircraft.
May 4: Manchester United defeats Aston Villa 3-2 in the FA Cup Final to become the first team in the 20th Century to win the double of the league title and the FA Cup.
May 5: The final episode of I Love Lucy is broadcast on CBS.
May 6: US Senator John F. Kennedy is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage.
May 7: Scotland Yard detectives and agents of the Witchfinder General raid a secret meeting of the Hellfire Club, disrupting a perverse ceremony and sparking a gun and spell battle. 19 survivors are taken into custody.
May 8: Momofuku Ando of Nissin Foods invents the instant noodle in Japan.
May 9: IBM displays a model of a new integrated computing engine considerably smaller than previous machines.
May 10: Conflict breaks out between Colombia and Peru as border guards exchange fire.
May 11: Thousands of people report seeing a blue telephone box flying in the skies over London.
May 12: Colombian and Peruvian fighters clash over the disputed border region of Amazonas. Both sides lose a pair of F-80 Shooting Stars in the first jet fighter combat in South America.
May 13: Britain conducts a hydrogen bomb test on Christmas Island in the Pacific.
May 14: CIA agents successfully rescue a number of captured agents being held in a secret Soviet prison camp in Northern Siberia using an experimental rocket.
May 15: Billy Graham begins a new crusade in New York City, attracting 20,000 people to Madison Square Garden for its opening night.
May 16: A fire damages a US weather station on drift ice in the Arctic Sea.
May 17: The Peruvian naval task force lead by the battleship Huascar bombards the Colombian port of Tumaco, inflicting moderate damage.
May 18: A Tibetan battalion is forced back from its approach towards the rebellious areas of Kham by a series of artificial avalanches and heavy mortar fire.
May 19: Peru and Colombia agree to a ceasefire under heavy pressure from the League of Nations and the United States.
May 20: Canadian sailors report a sighting of a massive megalodon north of Hawaii. The creature breaches several times and is seen attacking and killing an adult blue whale.
May 21: Beginning of the Hellfire Club trial; the defendants face charges of murder, blasphemy, demonology, necromancy, witchcraft and sacrilege.
May 22: A USAF B-60 crashes at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. A Mark 17 bomb is released, but there is no initiation.
May 23: Anti-American riots break out in Taipei, Taiwan.
May 24: Open days are held in Royal Air Force stations across Britain as part of Empire Air Day.
May 25: Barthélémy Boganda calls for the establishment of the United States of Latin Africa.
May 26: Beginning of Exercise Sunrise, a series of large Commonwealth naval maneuvers in the Coral Sea involving aircraft carriers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and New Avalon.
May 27: Regular flights by Soviet spacecraft to Luna recommence after length negotiation.
May 28: The Liberal Party wins the most seats in the Austro-Hungarian general election, enabling them to form a minority government, the first non-Social Democrat administration since the Second World War.
May 29: Resignation of the Laotian government.
May 30: Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2-0 in the final of the European Cup in Madrid.
May 31: Imperial China expresses its official displeasure with unrest in Tibet, a sign that is interpreted in Delhi and London as an indication of Chinese backing for the rebellion.
June
June 1: Don Bowden becomes the first American to break the 4 minute barrier for the mile.
June 2: USAF Captain Joseph Kittinger sets a new world record for high altitude balloon flight, reaching a height of 108,249ft.
June 3: Noel Coward returns home from the West Indies to refute the allegation that he is living abroad for tax evasion purposes.
June 4: Police arrest four suspected communists trying to infect the water supply of Seattle with an unknown substance.
June 5: Wild weather lashes New England overnight, but clears into a bright day with no clear explanation.
June 6: The Royal Air Force conducts a test launch of the Black Arrow medium range ballistic missile in the South African desert.
June 7: A man claiming to be a time traveler is arrested in Sheffield for causing a public nuisance.
June 8: French troops launch a crackdown in Algeria, targeting nationalist and communist sympathizers.
June 9: First ascent of Broad Peak on the Sino-Indian border by an Austro-Hungarian expedition.
June 10: The Hellfire Club concludes with the defendants found guilty of all charges and sentenced to death by burning.
June 11: Commissioning of USS Grayback, the first atomic powered Regulus submarine in the United States Navy.
June 12: A report by the US Joint Intelligence Committee estimates that the United States would need to deploy at least 36 divisions to Europe to defeat the Soviet Union in the event of a non-nuclear war.
June 13: The Mayflower II replica reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts.
June 14: Space Nazis raid a civil convoy en route to Vulcan from Mars.
June 15: US military weather wizards test a new rainfall device, resulting in precisely 24" of steady rain over a distinct target area in 24 hours.
June 16: A full wing of RAF Avro Vulcan strategic bombers arrives in India on surprise show of force mission.
June 17: Four Buckinghamshire children claim to have gone on a fantastical adventure with Merlin.
June 18: Indian paratroopers and a brigade of British Army Gurkhas land in Qamdo, Tibet after an official request for aid in putting down the Kham Uprising.
June 19: China issues a formal protest at the Anglo-Indian intervention in Tibet, but does not move forces overtly towards the area.
June 20: A violent tornado strikes Fargo, North Dakota, killing 12 people.
June 21: FBI agents arrest Wilhelm Fisher on charges of conspiracy in New York City.
June 22: Introduction of the Red Beard tactical atomic bomb to Royal Air Force and Royal Navy service.
June 23: Opening of the Imperial Congress of Wizardry in Birmingham.
June 24: The US Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
June 25: First prototype of the X-20 Dynasoar spaceplane is completed in the United States.
June 26: Beginning of a series of sweeps against rebel forces in Kham by over 20,000 Indian and Gurkha troops.
June 27: Hurricane Audrey inflicts significant damage across Louisiana and Texas, killing 484 people.
June 28: The Medical Research Council of Great Britain reports that there is a definite link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer.
June 29: Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Coalition government is returned to power in a landslide in the Australian Federal Election, winning 98 seats to the 46 of the ALP opposition.
June 30: Successful test firing of a Blue Streak long range ballistic missile from Woomera, South Australia to the Christmas Island test range in the Pacific Ocean.
July
July 1: Beginning of the International Geophysical Year.
July 2: The first postwar protests in Egypt take place since the relaxation of martial law.
July 3: United States, British, Soviet and French diplomats reach a provisional agreement in Bern for the withdrawal of Allied ground and air forces from Germany in return for a withdrawal of forward based Soviet ground and air forces in Poland.
July 4: President Thompson announces that the United States will build a force of rockets and spaceplanes that will be second to none.
July 5: Execution of the Hellfire Club criminals in London.
July 6: Opening of the Harry. S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.
July 7: The Vickers V-1000 Voyager enters regular service with the Royal Air Force.
July 8: Increased reports of violence and communist activity in Portuguese Africa
July 9: Scientists announce the discovery of a new element, nobelium.
July 10: Surrender of the largest group of Kham rebels in Tibet.
July 11: The US Army Corps of Engineers and dwarven experts begin construction of a series of underground defence facilities in the Rocky Mountains.
July 12: President Thompson becomes the first US President to fly in a helicopter.
July 13: Imperial Airways and British Airways take delivery of their first Vickers VC-7 jet airliners.
July 14: The Soviet steamer Eshghbad sinks in the Caspian Sea, killing 270.
July 15: American engineers report that they have grown artificial crystals of silicon of unprecedented size.
July 16: USMC John Glenn sets a new transcontinental airspeed record, flying from New York to California in 2 hours and 58 minutes.
July 17: Southern Iraqi grain yields break all previous records as the expansion of fertile, irrigated farmland and weather control experiments over the previous decade begin to come to fruition.
July 18: Establishment of the Civic Trust for England.
July 19: First live test of the MB-1 atomic air-to-air rocket by an F-101 Voodoo in the Plumbbob John nuclear test in Nevada.
July 20: Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold McMillan gives a confident speech on Britain's economic situation to Conservative members in Bedford, proclaiming that 'most of our people have never had it so good.'
July 21: The United States defeats Australia in the Second Test in Melbourne, with American captain Harry Schulz making an unbeaten 155* to win the game on the final day.
July 22: FORTRAN becomes commercially available.
July 23: Opening of the Atlantic Undersea Surveillance Display, an automatic illusory rendering of the entire North Atlantic Ocean displaying the positions of all known friendly and Soviet warships and submarines, located in the top secret Royal Navy War Headquarters deep beneath the Cambrian Mountains.
July 24: Withdrawal of the last USAF combat units from Britain to bases in France, Spain and Italy, completing a process begun in the aftermath of the 1956 War.
July 25: The USSR conducts a successful test of an improved variant of the R-7 Semyorka long range ballistic missile from Tyuratam in the Kazakh SSR.
July 26: Assassination of Guatemalan President Carlos Castillo Armas by a member of his palace guard.
July 27: Retirement of the Northrop B-49 from active USAF service.
July 28: Torrential rain and mudslides kill almost a thousand people in Southern Kyushu, Japan.
July 29: Establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
July 30: Royal Indian Air Force Hawker Hunters destroy a rebel encampment in Kham in a dawn airstrike.
July 31: The Sultan of Arabia proposes a new profit sharing deal with British Petroleum.
August
August 1: The Colonial Office announces that Kenya will be granted self-government within 10 years.
August 2: Launch of the German battleship Deutschland in Hamburg.
August 3: British Special Air Service forces launch a series of raids against rebel positions in the hinterland of Oman.
August 4: Several French newspapers carry editorials critical of the ongoing colonial conflicts in Indochina and North Africa.
August 5: US economic statistics indicate that recovery from the 1956 recession is well underway, with growth in the second quarter of 1957 reaching 2%.
August 6: The Committee for Imperial Defence recommends the formation of a coordinating headquarters for various colonial regiments in the British Pacific Islands, who are playing an increasingly large role in security plans and projections.
August 7: Morocco and Tunisia sign a mutual security agreement.
August 8: Last small-scale fighting in Tibet as the remaining Kham rebels melt into the mountains to cross the Chinese border.
August 9: Introduction of the F-106 to USAF service with Air Defence Command.
August 10: A walking statue is destroyed by heroes in Southern Mexico.
August 11: American and British officials meet in Washington to discuss the territorial status of Antarctica and the question of military basing.
August 12: The Indian government invites groups of British, Canadian and American agricultural scientists to a conference in New Delhi as part of a new agricultural strategy.
August 13: Introduction of the M162 120mm quad automatic anti-aircraft gun by the United States Army. It is designed to replace previous coastal defence weapons in light of changed threats.
August 14: Publication of The Guns of Navarone by Alastair MacLean, a highly fictionalised account of the destruction of the dread German guns in the Aegean Campaign of World War Two.
August 15: A study finds that 89% of US households own a television set.
August 16: Argentine domestic steel production tops 5 million tons for the first time.
August 17: Former British Prime Minister Sir Richard Harcourt arrives in Washington D.C. for back-channel talks with the Thompson Administration.
August 18: Invention of the modern laser by Gordon Gould at Columbia University.
August 19: Lester Pearson is elected head of the Liberal Party of Canada.
August 20: Final ceremonial surrender of rebel Kham headmen to Tibetan authorities.
August 21: The Mexican Army exhibits the prototype of a new domestically produced armoured vehicle.
August 22: President Thompson's approval rating reaches its highest level of 79%.
August 23: Austria-Hungary begins development of an indigenous guided missile project.
August 24: Publication of a secret British defence study on the operational and strategic lessons and consequences of the Middle Eastern War. Considerable emphasis is placed on the vital role played by Commonwealth forces.
August 25: Movement of British troops into bases in the Netherlands begins.
August 26: Germany takes delivery of 600 Honest John rocket launchers.
August 27: Death of former South African Prime Minister Sir Jan Smuts at the age of 87.
August 28: First sales of rock and roll records in Chicago.
August 29: Stanley Barton is elected leader of the Labour Party.
August 30: The United States Air Force issues a requirement for a long range strike fighter/bomber capable of supersonic performance.
August 31: A proposed Anglo-French defence agreement collapses as a result of intractable differences.
September
September 1: 175 people perish in a railway accident in Jamaica.
September 2: The German cabinet is divided in a secret discussion over nuclear weapons, with a narrow majority against the idea at this time in the light of the international situation.
September 3: Senator John W. Bricker introduces an amendment that would limit Presidential authority to sign treaties in an indication of perceived increased support for a move back from foreign engagements.
September 4: The Prince of Switzerland states that, although a world without atomic weapons would be in Swiss interests, it would be forced to develop them should her neighbours do so.
September 5: President Thompson declines an invitation to visit Great Britain.
September 6: 37 suspected Soviet agents are declared personae non grata by the British government.
September 7: The Polish People's Army begins a programme of expansion as it receives substantial deliveries of equipment from withdrawing Soviet forces. Western agents report that several Soviet units seem simply to have changed their uniforms.
September 8: Stanley Barton criticizes the Conservative Government for cutting defence spending.
September 9: North Vietnamese guerrillas and agents begin infiltrating South Vietnam.
September 10: The Ministry of Magic announces an investigation into educational standards and safety conditions at British private colleges of wizardry.
September 11: Brazil enters into discussions with Mexico regarding defence cooperation.
September 12: League of Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld gives a speech in New York City arguing that the moral case for disarmament was of renewed importance in the aftermath of war.
September 13: Comintern agents are ordered to give all support possible to independence movements in Africa and Asia.
September 14: American annual spending on frozen food tops $2 billion.
September 15: Swedish police investigating a series of vampire attacks in the suburbs of Stockholm discover and stake a child vampire.
September 16: A New Zealand man is convicted of murder after burning down a Wellington boarding house and killing its four residents.
September 17: A prominent Polish critic of the Soviet Union dies in London after mysteriously contracting a strange hemorrhagic fever.
September 18: Foreign ministers of the states surrounding the North Sea meet in London to decide on the territorial division of its petroleum resources.
September 19: The US Senate passes a motion supporting decolonisation.
September 20: King Haakon VII of Norway dies at the age of 85 and is succeeded to the throne by Crown Prince Olav.
September 21: Melbourne defeat Essendon 19.13 (127) to 7.12 (54) in front of 105,275 spectators at the M.C.G.
September 22: Yugoslavian elections result in a strong win by the reigning Social Democrats.
September 23: Ernest Hemingway publishes his memoirs, A Moveable Feast.
September 24: The Israeli Army begins a programme of modifying its Conqueror heavy tanks with increased armour.
September 25: Introduction of postcodes in Britain.
September 26: Denmark declines to acquiesce to a Soviet request to expel British forces from Danish territory.
September 27: Prime Minister Eden states that Britain looks to the Commonwealth and the wider world for trade and security.
September 28: Mongolia agrees to the basing of Soviet missiles.
September 29: A major accident at the Mayak plutonium production plant in the Soviet Union contaminates a large area of the surrounding countryside.
September 30: France conducts a test of a boosted fission bomb in the Algerian desert.
October
October 1: Strategic Air Command B-47s, B-52s and B-60s begin airborne alert flights as part of Operation Head Start.
October 2: A new volcanic island appears off the Azure Islands.
October 3: Release of David Lean's epic war film The Bridge over the River Mekong, a stirring account of the 25th Army Group's great drive through Siam and Indochina.
October 4: China and Japan sign a peace treaty in Peking officially ending the state of war between their countries.
October 5: First official deployment of Strategic Air Command B-47s to the British Isles in over a year to two RAF airfields in Ireland.
October 6: Germany and the United States sign an agreement for the purchase of a large quantity of American military equipment and weapons, which comes on the back of extensive defence aid delivered since 1950.
October 7: McDonald's sell their 100 millionth hamburger.
October 8: Prime Minister Eden declares that British standards of living will continue to rise under Conservative rule.
October 9: Germany and the Benelux states agree to a reduction in steel and coal tariffs.
October 10: A fire at the Windscale Atomic Production Plant releases radioactive compounds into the atmosphere, causing some alarm.
October 11: Publication of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
October 12: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip arrive in Canada for a Royal Tour of North America.
October 13: Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland begin joint development of a supersonic jet fighter.
October 14: The British Army of the Rhine is redesignated as British Forces Europe.
October 15: Notable businessmen Bruce Wayne establishes a new fund for the assistance of widows and orphans in his home city of Chicago.
October 16: The Fairey Rotodyne enters service with the Royal Air Force.
October 17: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are received by President Thompson in the White House. The state visit is used by both British and American officials to engineer a gradual process of political rapprochement between the two powers.
October 18: Disbandment of the last cavalry division of the British Army.
October 19: An American expedition sets off to explore the depths of the Congo.
October 20: Roman Catholic priests drive out a restless spirit haunting a girl's school in Massachusetts.
October 21: Leader of the Opposition Stanley Barton declares that Communists have no place in the Labour Party.
October 22: The Imperial Chinese Air Force exhibits a new jet bomber over a military parade in Peking.
October 23: Moroccan troops begin a series of penetrations of Spanish West Africa.
October 24: Archaeologists in Samoa find a remarkable collection of advanced ruins buried beneath the jungle.
October 25: Waves of public protests in Guatemala over British refusal to discuss disputed territories in British Honduras.
October 26: An article in The Timesdescribes the curious revival of popularity of music hall in Britain.
October 27: The Indian delegates on the Imperial Council propose a motion in favour of expedited decolonisation in Africa and Asia.
October 28: Britain relaxes restrictions on the import of foreign mushrooms.
October 29: Toyota begins the export of automobiles to the United States, but is still restricted from exporting to countries within the British Empire.
October 30: Spanish Legionaires fire upon Moroccan irregulars near their mutual border.
October 31: Zombies attack and overrun a Haitian village.
November
November 1: US Class I railroads report that they currently operate a total of 32,584 diesel and 20,632 steam locomotives.
November 2: Opening of the world's first commercial titanium mill in Toronto, Ohio.
November 3: Haitian troops are overrun and consumed by a small horde of zombies in the mountains of Central Haiti.
November 4: A Romanian IL-14 crashes while coming into land at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, killing all 16 officials onboard, including General Secretary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Foreign Minister Grigore Preoteasa and Politburo member Nikolai Ceausescu.
November 5: British explorers on Venus discover stone tablets clearly emblazoned with some form of writing.
November 6: An article in an American archaeological journal claims that evidence of the ruins of the Lemurian civilisation have been located in Madagascar.
November 7: The Gaither Report calls for a dramatic increase in American strategic offensive and defensive capacity.
November 8: US Marines land in Haiti to assist authorities in combatting the zombie outbreak.
November 9: Ion Gheorghe Maurer takes power as the interim General Secretary of the Communist Party of Romania.
November 10: Maiden flight of the Hawker P.1127 vertical take off fighter.
November 11: The War Office announces that the Army Reserve and Territorial Army will be merged into a single entity to allow for greater efficiency.
November 12: A Japanese research laboratory is raided by a gang of ninjas, who make off with an experimental serum and several other items.
November 13: Large scale flooding in the Po Valley and Venice.
November 14: Arrest of several dozen suspected gangsters at a clandestine meeting in Apalachin, New York.
November 15: Soviet spy Rudolf Abel is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for espionage in a New York court.
November 16: A Mexican DC-4 goes missing flying over the Bahamas.
November 17: British Rail begins trials of a magical levitation train.
November 18: The Soviet Union begins plans for the construction of an orbital space station.
November 19: Egyptologists discover a puzzling series of hieroglyphs that appear to show electrical lights, flying machines, rocket launches and armoured vehicles.
November 20: Foreign Secretary Wooster declares that Antarctica remains an integral part of the British Empire.
November 21: Rearmament of the Egyptian Armed Forces begins.
November 22: Mickey Mantle wins the MVP of the American League for the second time.
November 23: USAF and USMC fighter-bombers eliminate remaining pockets of zombies with heavy napalm attacks.
November 24: American wizards demonstrate the use of a sorcerously enhanced heat ray to intercept an artillery shell.
November 25: Edward Gein is found guilty of murder in Waushara County Court, Wisconsin and sentenced to death.
November 26: Installation of Bristol Bloodhound SAGW sites around Constantinople begins.
November 27: Construction of an atomic reactor begins in Spain as part of the Spanish nuclear weapons project.
November 28: Adventurers claim to have discovered the hidden treasure of Captain Kidd on Oak Island.
November 29: Indian forces withdraw from Tibet.
November 30: Indonesian President Sukarno survives an assassination attempt in Jakarta.
December
December 1: The Indonesian government declares that all Dutch businesses and property will to be nationalised.
December 2: Women are granted the right to vote in Afghanistan.
December 3: Release of Laurence Olivier's theatrical adaption of Macbeth in British cinemas.
December 4: Two passenger trains collide in heavy fog in Lewisham, England, killing 92 people.
December 5: Sukarno announces the expulsion of all Dutch nationals in Indonesia.
December 6: The AFL-CIO votes to expel the Teamsters from their ranks.
December 7: Italian per capita income growth for 1957 exceeds every other major European nation.
December 8: A French torpedo boat collides with an RN MTB off Calais, seriously damaging both vessels.
December 9: The Shah of Persia summons a conclave of politicians and thinkers from across the nation to debate the issue of national reform and modernisation.
December 10: Sir Alexander Todd is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
December 11: Three drug smugglers are arrested by a special squad lead by renowned LAPD Detective Sergeant Joe Friday.
December 12: Surgeons in the United States conduct an experimental operation proving the viability of the artificial heart.
December 13: A tense confrontation between the Dutch cruiser Eendracht and three Indonesian warships off the Bacan Islands ends with the arrival of RNLAF Canberras from Kao Bay.
December 14: Soviet fighters attempt to shoot down a USAF RB-47 near Kamchatka; the aircraft is damaged, but survives to land at an RCAF airfield in Alaska.
December 15: Australia and New Zealand agree to a reduction of economic barriers between the two nations.
December 16: A Hawaiian referendum on the issue of full statehood results in 93.4% voting to become a US state.
December 17: Fire rips through the East End of London, destroying a number of warehouses and housing tenements.
December 18: The results of the Korean referendum are announced, with 26% supporting a constitutional monarchy, 24% supporting a republic, 24% supporting a parliamentary democracy and 24% supporting a socialist democracy. Each faction claims that the result supports their position and alleges voting irregularities.
December 19: Indian nationalists make substantial gains in local elections.
December 20: American doctors declare that the worst of the Asian Flu pandemic is over.
December 21: Icelandic patrol boats clash with British fishing vessels.
December 22: The High Court of Australia rules that the Commonwealth Government's declaration on the illegality of a dockside worker's strike was valid.
December 23: First public meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Rearmament in London.
December 24: A German Shepherd working for the Murder Squad of the Vienna Police rescues two schoolboys trapped by a dastardly criminal in an aquarium and is decorated by the Kaiser for his feats.
December 25: Christmas is celebrated across the Free World, with NORAD's regular good-natured attempt's to intercept Father Christmas's sleigh once again falling short.
December 26: The Avro Arrow enters service with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
December 27: Commissioning of the German aircraft carrier SMS Kaiser Wilhelm IV.
December 28: British wizards demonstrate a new levitation spell of unprecedented strength.
December 29: A diplomatic incident occurs in Madrid as the outraged French defence attache challenges British officer Major George Flashman to a duel after a dastardly insult to his wife.
December 30: President Thompson agrees to a Franco-South Vietnamese request for the supply of defence equipment and material.
December 31: The Soviet Union launches a new reconnaissance satellite.
January
January 1: Arturo Toscanini suffers a stroke at his home in New York City.
January 2: The SSM-A-23 Dart anti-tank missile enters service with the United States Army.
January 3: Trans-World Airlines becomes the first civil airline to offer freshly brewed coffee to passengers.
January 4: Jackie Robinson announces his retirement from Major League baseball.
January 5: South African cricketer Russell Endean becomes the first man to be dismissed for handling the ball in a Test Match.
January 6: Italian motorists report a strange, silent migration of giant frogs through Tuscany.
January 7: A bomb is set off in an Algiers cafe, killing 11 people.
January 8: The first commercial electricity is produced by the Shippingport atomic power station in the United States in Pennsylvania
January 9: German research alchemists conclude that the newly discovered drug thalidomide should not be used by pregnant women.
January 10: Restrictions on public gatherings are lifted in Egypt as the country gradually returns to normalcy.
January 11: Jack Graham is executed by gas chamber in Colorado for the murder of his mother and 44 others in the bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 on November 1st 1955.
January 12: Plans for the construction of a pair of small modern aircraft carriers for the Royal Swedish Navy are finalised.
January 13: The Wham-O Company produces the first frisbee.
January 14: Humphrey Bogart dies of cancer in California, aged 57.
January 15: Release of Throne of Blood, a Japanese adaption of Macbeth, directed by Akira Kurosawa.
January 16: Soviet diplomats propose a phased reduction of the presence of troops in Central Europe to reduce tensions.
January 17: A survey of public opinion in Britain finds an increase in support for independent television broadcasting.
January 18: Three USAF B-52 Stratofortresses complete the fastest round the world flight, recording an average speed of 642mph.
January 19: A high altitude Soviet nuclear test above Kapustin Yar fizzles, causing considerable consternation.
January 20: The Communist Party achieves an expected victory in the Polish national elections, receiving over 99% of the vote.
January 21: President Thompson is sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan at his inauguration in Washington D.C.
January 22: George P. Metesky is arrested on suspicion of being the notorious 'Mad Bomber'.
January 23: Chinese officials offer to end the state of war between China and Japan in return for normalised relations.
January 24: The Indian government commissions a white paper on the promotion of industrial development.
January 25: Raoul Wallenberg is appointed as Swedish ambassador to Israel.
January 26: Opening of the Ibirapuera Planetarium in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
January 27: 13 cars are involved in a bizarre pile-up that leaves them hanging precariously off the edge of a sharp cliff in New Jersey.
January 28: A bomb explodes in a Parisian cafe. Responsibility is claimed by a mysterious group calling themselves The Black Circle.
January 29: The Ford Motor Company becomes a publicly traded entity.
January 30: Completion of the Trans-Persian Pipeline.
January 31: A Douglas DC-7 collides with an USAF F-89 Scorpion over the San Fernando Valley, killing five in the air and a further four on the ground as the DC-7 crashes onto a high school playing field.
February
February 1: Death of retired German Field Marshal Frederick von Paulus in Dresden.
February 2: FBI Director Ness declares that the vestiges of organised crime will be expunged from American public life.
February 3: France declares that it will not allow League of Nations observers unrestricted access to ongoing security operations in Algeria.
February 4: A coal gas explosion in a mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.
February 5: US experts declare that the advance of modern technology has made dragons obsolete in warfare.
February 6: Martian inspired fashions sweep a number of fashion shows in Paris, launching a brief craze for Martian clothing.
February 7: First successful test of the SSM-A-24 battlefield multipurpose guided missile at White Sands, New Mexico. It is designed to fill a perceived niche between the Dart ATGM and longer range artillery.
February 8: Commissioning of the first Project 627 class atomic submarine in the Soviet Union.
February 9: The US Army begins secret testing of an experimental serum for enhanced physical capabilities on volunteers in California.
February 10: Foundation of the Confederation of African Football in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia.
February 11: A plot to steal the beef reserved for the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London is thwarted by three young adventurers.
February 12: American researchers announce the development of a new formula of superhard steel armour.
February 13: The Soviet Union claims it has developed the world's most powerful rocket.
February 14: Austro-Hungarian Foreign Ministry officials arrive in Berlin for talks with the German government.
February 15: Andrei Gromyko becomes Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union.
February 16: Release of Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal in Sweden.
February 17: A fire at an elderly people's home in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72.
February 18: Walter James Bolton is hanged at Mount Eden Prison, Auckland for the murder of his wife.
February 19: Commercial hovercraft services across the English Channel are reinstated.
February 20: First successful test of a nuclear thermal rocket engine.
February 21: The Malayan colonial government declares an end to the state of emergency
February 22: Several Republican Congressmen call for an increase in tariffs on British products.
February 23: Masked gunmen rob two banks in Belgrade, making off with substantial amounts of cash.
February 24: A bombing of a bank in Hamburg is claimed by the Black Circle.
February 25: The body of an unidentified young boy is found on a Philadelphia sidewalk, sparking the 'Body in the Box' investigation.
February 26: German economists estimate that Germany will overtake Britain to become the second largest economy in the world by 1960.
February 27: The first British atomic ballistic missile submarine begins construction at Barrow.
February 28: Sales begin of the Ferranti Argus computing engine.
March
March 1: Publication of The Cat in the Hat in the United States.
March 2: Formation of Sud Aviation after a merger between SNCASE and SNCASO.
March 3: Housing construction and automotive sales in the United States fall for a third consecutive month.
March 4: First publication of the S&P 500 Index in the United States by Standard & Poor's.
March 5: An accident-prone Frenchman wrecks havoc in a new department store in Paris.
March 6: The Thieves' Guild of London offers a reward of £500,000 for information on the Black Circle gang.
March 7: King Abdullah signs an extension of the Anglo-Jordanian Security Treaty for a further 10 years.
March 8: Royal Canadian Air Force fighters attempt to intercept a UFO over Baffin Island, but it soon disappears beyond their reach.
March 9: The Gold Coast is granted internal self-government within British West Africa.
March 10: A meeting of prominent British intellectuals and pacifists opposed to nuclear weapons takes place in London.
March 11: American Polar explorer Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd dies in Boston.
March 12: Establishment of the first heavy tank battalions of the German Army.
March 13: Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa is arrested by the FBI and charged with bribery.
March 14: US officials begins discussions with France, Italy and Japan on the forward deployment of Thor medium range ballistic missiles; talks with Britain have been on indefinite hold since the events of the previous year.
March 15: President Sukarno declares a state of emergency and martial law throughout Indonesia.
March 16: Reports reach London that a group of natives in the New Hebrides have begun to worship Prince Phillip as a deity.
March 17: 24 people, including Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay, are killed in the crash of a C-47 in Cebu.
March 18: Japanese scientists exhibit the prototype of a humanoid robot child.
March 19: US Marines complete the replacement of earlier amtracks with the new LVT-6.
March 20: The Korean government announces that a nationwide referendum will be held on the future form of government for the country.
March 21: General elections in Thailand are cast in doubt after widespread allegations of vote rigging and corruption.
March 22: Installation of new coastal defence missiles in Gibraltar.
March 23: Tibetan authorities report increased unrest in border villages and communities in Kham.
March 24: Britain and Germany sign a confidential memorandum of understanding regarding security guarantees in the event of armed conflict with the Soviet Union.
March 25: Initiation of Project Orion in the United States.
March 26: Beginning of US Navy exercises in the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
March 27: The Mona Lisa goes missing from the Louvre, sparking a firestorm of global attention and speculation.
March 28: Imperial Japanese Navy air patrols detect signs of a large sea creature around Marcus Island. The Japanese military goes on alert for the next two weeks.
March 29: Around the World in Eighty Days wins Best Picture at the 29th Academy Awards, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr winning Best Actor and Best Actress for The King and I.
March 30: A conference begins in Bern regarding the mutual reduction of Western and Soviet troops in Europe.
March 31: US consumer confidence shows its first signs of rising in several months as automotive and consumer goods sales begin to increase.
April
April 1: A BBC television report describes the workings of the annual harvest of spaghetti trees in Switzerland.
April 2: The Distant Early Warning Line is activated in Canada under the control of the US and Canadian Armed Forces.
April 3: Marshal Zhukov is forced to retire in the latest indications of considerable change in the top echelon of Soviet politics.
April 4: Singapore is granted domestic self rule within the British Empire.
April 5: The first anime series, Saiyu-ki, is broadcast on NHK in Japan.
April 6: Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis establishes Olympic Airlines from a number of smaller carriers.
April 7: A series of tornadoes cause significant damage across the Carolinas.
April 8: Local elections in Burma result in resounding victories for nationalist candidates.
April 9: Dr. John Bodkin Adams is found guilty of the murder of a patient and sentenced to death by hanging.
April 10: French police and Interpol report a number of promising leads regarding the Mona Lisa.
April 11: Commissioning of the Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi.
April 12: The United States conducts a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
April 13: Release of Twelve Angry Men, starring Henry Fonda.
April 14: Colonial authorities in Kenya declare an end to the state of emergency, marking the official conclusion of the Mau-Mau Rebellion.
April 15: Saturday mail delivery in the United States is restored after a brief interruption due to industrial action.
April 16: Pan-Arab nationalists meet in Turkey to plan a new strategy for regional independence and unity.
April 17: Formation of the Icelandic People's Party, which calls for an end to the presence of foreign troops.
April 18: Beachgoers at Acapulco are attacked by sharks falling from the sky in a freak event sparked by a tornado.
April 19: A large supercarrier is laid down in Toulon, France.
April 20: Studies begin in the United States on the logistical requirements of a voyage of exploration beyond the asteroid belt.
April 21: Pope Pius XII issues the encyclical Fidei Donum, on the issue of Catholic missions in Africa.
April 22: John Bodkin Adams is hanged at Pentridge Prison.
April 23: First broadcast of The Sky at Night on BBC television.
April 24: An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale strikes the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, destroying hundreds of buildings around the city of Fethiye.
April 25: Controlled nuclear fission at the Sodium Reactor Experimental facility in Southern California.
April 26: An Admiralty study proposes the construction of two small-scale Floating Fortresses to be located between Shetland and Norway and in the Dogger Bank to provide optimal anti-submarine and anti-aircraft defence for the North Sea approaches to Britain.
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April 28: Anti-colonial protests and violence begin anew in the Belgian Congo.
April 29: Vessels of the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet delivery relief supplies to victims of the Turkish earthquake.
April 30: Interpol agents discover the Mona Lisa inside a well in a small village in the Black Forest. It is returned to France, but the culprits remain at large.
May
May 1: A large super battleship is laid down in Leningrad.
May 2: Fighting breaks out in Eastern Tibet as rebellious locals ambush a military patrol.
May 3: The Imperial Chinese Navy conducts its most extensive oceanic exercises since the Korean War, closely shadowed by US and Japanese ships and aircraft.
May 4: Manchester United defeats Aston Villa 3-2 in the FA Cup Final to become the first team in the 20th Century to win the double of the league title and the FA Cup.
May 5: The final episode of I Love Lucy is broadcast on CBS.
May 6: US Senator John F. Kennedy is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage.
May 7: Scotland Yard detectives and agents of the Witchfinder General raid a secret meeting of the Hellfire Club, disrupting a perverse ceremony and sparking a gun and spell battle. 19 survivors are taken into custody.
May 8: Momofuku Ando of Nissin Foods invents the instant noodle in Japan.
May 9: IBM displays a model of a new integrated computing engine considerably smaller than previous machines.
May 10: Conflict breaks out between Colombia and Peru as border guards exchange fire.
May 11: Thousands of people report seeing a blue telephone box flying in the skies over London.
May 12: Colombian and Peruvian fighters clash over the disputed border region of Amazonas. Both sides lose a pair of F-80 Shooting Stars in the first jet fighter combat in South America.
May 13: Britain conducts a hydrogen bomb test on Christmas Island in the Pacific.
May 14: CIA agents successfully rescue a number of captured agents being held in a secret Soviet prison camp in Northern Siberia using an experimental rocket.
May 15: Billy Graham begins a new crusade in New York City, attracting 20,000 people to Madison Square Garden for its opening night.
May 16: A fire damages a US weather station on drift ice in the Arctic Sea.
May 17: The Peruvian naval task force lead by the battleship Huascar bombards the Colombian port of Tumaco, inflicting moderate damage.
May 18: A Tibetan battalion is forced back from its approach towards the rebellious areas of Kham by a series of artificial avalanches and heavy mortar fire.
May 19: Peru and Colombia agree to a ceasefire under heavy pressure from the League of Nations and the United States.
May 20: Canadian sailors report a sighting of a massive megalodon north of Hawaii. The creature breaches several times and is seen attacking and killing an adult blue whale.
May 21: Beginning of the Hellfire Club trial; the defendants face charges of murder, blasphemy, demonology, necromancy, witchcraft and sacrilege.
May 22: A USAF B-60 crashes at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. A Mark 17 bomb is released, but there is no initiation.
May 23: Anti-American riots break out in Taipei, Taiwan.
May 24: Open days are held in Royal Air Force stations across Britain as part of Empire Air Day.
May 25: Barthélémy Boganda calls for the establishment of the United States of Latin Africa.
May 26: Beginning of Exercise Sunrise, a series of large Commonwealth naval maneuvers in the Coral Sea involving aircraft carriers from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and New Avalon.
May 27: Regular flights by Soviet spacecraft to Luna recommence after length negotiation.
May 28: The Liberal Party wins the most seats in the Austro-Hungarian general election, enabling them to form a minority government, the first non-Social Democrat administration since the Second World War.
May 29: Resignation of the Laotian government.
May 30: Real Madrid beats Fiorentina 2-0 in the final of the European Cup in Madrid.
May 31: Imperial China expresses its official displeasure with unrest in Tibet, a sign that is interpreted in Delhi and London as an indication of Chinese backing for the rebellion.
June
June 1: Don Bowden becomes the first American to break the 4 minute barrier for the mile.
June 2: USAF Captain Joseph Kittinger sets a new world record for high altitude balloon flight, reaching a height of 108,249ft.
June 3: Noel Coward returns home from the West Indies to refute the allegation that he is living abroad for tax evasion purposes.
June 4: Police arrest four suspected communists trying to infect the water supply of Seattle with an unknown substance.
June 5: Wild weather lashes New England overnight, but clears into a bright day with no clear explanation.
June 6: The Royal Air Force conducts a test launch of the Black Arrow medium range ballistic missile in the South African desert.
June 7: A man claiming to be a time traveler is arrested in Sheffield for causing a public nuisance.
June 8: French troops launch a crackdown in Algeria, targeting nationalist and communist sympathizers.
June 9: First ascent of Broad Peak on the Sino-Indian border by an Austro-Hungarian expedition.
June 10: The Hellfire Club concludes with the defendants found guilty of all charges and sentenced to death by burning.
June 11: Commissioning of USS Grayback, the first atomic powered Regulus submarine in the United States Navy.
June 12: A report by the US Joint Intelligence Committee estimates that the United States would need to deploy at least 36 divisions to Europe to defeat the Soviet Union in the event of a non-nuclear war.
June 13: The Mayflower II replica reaches Plymouth, Massachusetts.
June 14: Space Nazis raid a civil convoy en route to Vulcan from Mars.
June 15: US military weather wizards test a new rainfall device, resulting in precisely 24" of steady rain over a distinct target area in 24 hours.
June 16: A full wing of RAF Avro Vulcan strategic bombers arrives in India on surprise show of force mission.
June 17: Four Buckinghamshire children claim to have gone on a fantastical adventure with Merlin.
June 18: Indian paratroopers and a brigade of British Army Gurkhas land in Qamdo, Tibet after an official request for aid in putting down the Kham Uprising.
June 19: China issues a formal protest at the Anglo-Indian intervention in Tibet, but does not move forces overtly towards the area.
June 20: A violent tornado strikes Fargo, North Dakota, killing 12 people.
June 21: FBI agents arrest Wilhelm Fisher on charges of conspiracy in New York City.
June 22: Introduction of the Red Beard tactical atomic bomb to Royal Air Force and Royal Navy service.
June 23: Opening of the Imperial Congress of Wizardry in Birmingham.
June 24: The US Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
June 25: First prototype of the X-20 Dynasoar spaceplane is completed in the United States.
June 26: Beginning of a series of sweeps against rebel forces in Kham by over 20,000 Indian and Gurkha troops.
June 27: Hurricane Audrey inflicts significant damage across Louisiana and Texas, killing 484 people.
June 28: The Medical Research Council of Great Britain reports that there is a definite link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer.
June 29: Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Coalition government is returned to power in a landslide in the Australian Federal Election, winning 98 seats to the 46 of the ALP opposition.
June 30: Successful test firing of a Blue Streak long range ballistic missile from Woomera, South Australia to the Christmas Island test range in the Pacific Ocean.
July
July 1: Beginning of the International Geophysical Year.
July 2: The first postwar protests in Egypt take place since the relaxation of martial law.
July 3: United States, British, Soviet and French diplomats reach a provisional agreement in Bern for the withdrawal of Allied ground and air forces from Germany in return for a withdrawal of forward based Soviet ground and air forces in Poland.
July 4: President Thompson announces that the United States will build a force of rockets and spaceplanes that will be second to none.
July 5: Execution of the Hellfire Club criminals in London.
July 6: Opening of the Harry. S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.
July 7: The Vickers V-1000 Voyager enters regular service with the Royal Air Force.
July 8: Increased reports of violence and communist activity in Portuguese Africa
July 9: Scientists announce the discovery of a new element, nobelium.
July 10: Surrender of the largest group of Kham rebels in Tibet.
July 11: The US Army Corps of Engineers and dwarven experts begin construction of a series of underground defence facilities in the Rocky Mountains.
July 12: President Thompson becomes the first US President to fly in a helicopter.
July 13: Imperial Airways and British Airways take delivery of their first Vickers VC-7 jet airliners.
July 14: The Soviet steamer Eshghbad sinks in the Caspian Sea, killing 270.
July 15: American engineers report that they have grown artificial crystals of silicon of unprecedented size.
July 16: USMC John Glenn sets a new transcontinental airspeed record, flying from New York to California in 2 hours and 58 minutes.
July 17: Southern Iraqi grain yields break all previous records as the expansion of fertile, irrigated farmland and weather control experiments over the previous decade begin to come to fruition.
July 18: Establishment of the Civic Trust for England.
July 19: First live test of the MB-1 atomic air-to-air rocket by an F-101 Voodoo in the Plumbbob John nuclear test in Nevada.
July 20: Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold McMillan gives a confident speech on Britain's economic situation to Conservative members in Bedford, proclaiming that 'most of our people have never had it so good.'
July 21: The United States defeats Australia in the Second Test in Melbourne, with American captain Harry Schulz making an unbeaten 155* to win the game on the final day.
July 22: FORTRAN becomes commercially available.
July 23: Opening of the Atlantic Undersea Surveillance Display, an automatic illusory rendering of the entire North Atlantic Ocean displaying the positions of all known friendly and Soviet warships and submarines, located in the top secret Royal Navy War Headquarters deep beneath the Cambrian Mountains.
July 24: Withdrawal of the last USAF combat units from Britain to bases in France, Spain and Italy, completing a process begun in the aftermath of the 1956 War.
July 25: The USSR conducts a successful test of an improved variant of the R-7 Semyorka long range ballistic missile from Tyuratam in the Kazakh SSR.
July 26: Assassination of Guatemalan President Carlos Castillo Armas by a member of his palace guard.
July 27: Retirement of the Northrop B-49 from active USAF service.
July 28: Torrential rain and mudslides kill almost a thousand people in Southern Kyushu, Japan.
July 29: Establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
July 30: Royal Indian Air Force Hawker Hunters destroy a rebel encampment in Kham in a dawn airstrike.
July 31: The Sultan of Arabia proposes a new profit sharing deal with British Petroleum.
August
August 1: The Colonial Office announces that Kenya will be granted self-government within 10 years.
August 2: Launch of the German battleship Deutschland in Hamburg.
August 3: British Special Air Service forces launch a series of raids against rebel positions in the hinterland of Oman.
August 4: Several French newspapers carry editorials critical of the ongoing colonial conflicts in Indochina and North Africa.
August 5: US economic statistics indicate that recovery from the 1956 recession is well underway, with growth in the second quarter of 1957 reaching 2%.
August 6: The Committee for Imperial Defence recommends the formation of a coordinating headquarters for various colonial regiments in the British Pacific Islands, who are playing an increasingly large role in security plans and projections.
August 7: Morocco and Tunisia sign a mutual security agreement.
August 8: Last small-scale fighting in Tibet as the remaining Kham rebels melt into the mountains to cross the Chinese border.
August 9: Introduction of the F-106 to USAF service with Air Defence Command.
August 10: A walking statue is destroyed by heroes in Southern Mexico.
August 11: American and British officials meet in Washington to discuss the territorial status of Antarctica and the question of military basing.
August 12: The Indian government invites groups of British, Canadian and American agricultural scientists to a conference in New Delhi as part of a new agricultural strategy.
August 13: Introduction of the M162 120mm quad automatic anti-aircraft gun by the United States Army. It is designed to replace previous coastal defence weapons in light of changed threats.
August 14: Publication of The Guns of Navarone by Alastair MacLean, a highly fictionalised account of the destruction of the dread German guns in the Aegean Campaign of World War Two.
August 15: A study finds that 89% of US households own a television set.
August 16: Argentine domestic steel production tops 5 million tons for the first time.
August 17: Former British Prime Minister Sir Richard Harcourt arrives in Washington D.C. for back-channel talks with the Thompson Administration.
August 18: Invention of the modern laser by Gordon Gould at Columbia University.
August 19: Lester Pearson is elected head of the Liberal Party of Canada.
August 20: Final ceremonial surrender of rebel Kham headmen to Tibetan authorities.
August 21: The Mexican Army exhibits the prototype of a new domestically produced armoured vehicle.
August 22: President Thompson's approval rating reaches its highest level of 79%.
August 23: Austria-Hungary begins development of an indigenous guided missile project.
August 24: Publication of a secret British defence study on the operational and strategic lessons and consequences of the Middle Eastern War. Considerable emphasis is placed on the vital role played by Commonwealth forces.
August 25: Movement of British troops into bases in the Netherlands begins.
August 26: Germany takes delivery of 600 Honest John rocket launchers.
August 27: Death of former South African Prime Minister Sir Jan Smuts at the age of 87.
August 28: First sales of rock and roll records in Chicago.
August 29: Stanley Barton is elected leader of the Labour Party.
August 30: The United States Air Force issues a requirement for a long range strike fighter/bomber capable of supersonic performance.
August 31: A proposed Anglo-French defence agreement collapses as a result of intractable differences.
September
September 1: 175 people perish in a railway accident in Jamaica.
September 2: The German cabinet is divided in a secret discussion over nuclear weapons, with a narrow majority against the idea at this time in the light of the international situation.
September 3: Senator John W. Bricker introduces an amendment that would limit Presidential authority to sign treaties in an indication of perceived increased support for a move back from foreign engagements.
September 4: The Prince of Switzerland states that, although a world without atomic weapons would be in Swiss interests, it would be forced to develop them should her neighbours do so.
September 5: President Thompson declines an invitation to visit Great Britain.
September 6: 37 suspected Soviet agents are declared personae non grata by the British government.
September 7: The Polish People's Army begins a programme of expansion as it receives substantial deliveries of equipment from withdrawing Soviet forces. Western agents report that several Soviet units seem simply to have changed their uniforms.
September 8: Stanley Barton criticizes the Conservative Government for cutting defence spending.
September 9: North Vietnamese guerrillas and agents begin infiltrating South Vietnam.
September 10: The Ministry of Magic announces an investigation into educational standards and safety conditions at British private colleges of wizardry.
September 11: Brazil enters into discussions with Mexico regarding defence cooperation.
September 12: League of Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld gives a speech in New York City arguing that the moral case for disarmament was of renewed importance in the aftermath of war.
September 13: Comintern agents are ordered to give all support possible to independence movements in Africa and Asia.
September 14: American annual spending on frozen food tops $2 billion.
September 15: Swedish police investigating a series of vampire attacks in the suburbs of Stockholm discover and stake a child vampire.
September 16: A New Zealand man is convicted of murder after burning down a Wellington boarding house and killing its four residents.
September 17: A prominent Polish critic of the Soviet Union dies in London after mysteriously contracting a strange hemorrhagic fever.
September 18: Foreign ministers of the states surrounding the North Sea meet in London to decide on the territorial division of its petroleum resources.
September 19: The US Senate passes a motion supporting decolonisation.
September 20: King Haakon VII of Norway dies at the age of 85 and is succeeded to the throne by Crown Prince Olav.
September 21: Melbourne defeat Essendon 19.13 (127) to 7.12 (54) in front of 105,275 spectators at the M.C.G.
September 22: Yugoslavian elections result in a strong win by the reigning Social Democrats.
September 23: Ernest Hemingway publishes his memoirs, A Moveable Feast.
September 24: The Israeli Army begins a programme of modifying its Conqueror heavy tanks with increased armour.
September 25: Introduction of postcodes in Britain.
September 26: Denmark declines to acquiesce to a Soviet request to expel British forces from Danish territory.
September 27: Prime Minister Eden states that Britain looks to the Commonwealth and the wider world for trade and security.
September 28: Mongolia agrees to the basing of Soviet missiles.
September 29: A major accident at the Mayak plutonium production plant in the Soviet Union contaminates a large area of the surrounding countryside.
September 30: France conducts a test of a boosted fission bomb in the Algerian desert.
October
October 1: Strategic Air Command B-47s, B-52s and B-60s begin airborne alert flights as part of Operation Head Start.
October 2: A new volcanic island appears off the Azure Islands.
October 3: Release of David Lean's epic war film The Bridge over the River Mekong, a stirring account of the 25th Army Group's great drive through Siam and Indochina.
October 4: China and Japan sign a peace treaty in Peking officially ending the state of war between their countries.
October 5: First official deployment of Strategic Air Command B-47s to the British Isles in over a year to two RAF airfields in Ireland.
October 6: Germany and the United States sign an agreement for the purchase of a large quantity of American military equipment and weapons, which comes on the back of extensive defence aid delivered since 1950.
October 7: McDonald's sell their 100 millionth hamburger.
October 8: Prime Minister Eden declares that British standards of living will continue to rise under Conservative rule.
October 9: Germany and the Benelux states agree to a reduction in steel and coal tariffs.
October 10: A fire at the Windscale Atomic Production Plant releases radioactive compounds into the atmosphere, causing some alarm.
October 11: Publication of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
October 12: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip arrive in Canada for a Royal Tour of North America.
October 13: Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland begin joint development of a supersonic jet fighter.
October 14: The British Army of the Rhine is redesignated as British Forces Europe.
October 15: Notable businessmen Bruce Wayne establishes a new fund for the assistance of widows and orphans in his home city of Chicago.
October 16: The Fairey Rotodyne enters service with the Royal Air Force.
October 17: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are received by President Thompson in the White House. The state visit is used by both British and American officials to engineer a gradual process of political rapprochement between the two powers.
October 18: Disbandment of the last cavalry division of the British Army.
October 19: An American expedition sets off to explore the depths of the Congo.
October 20: Roman Catholic priests drive out a restless spirit haunting a girl's school in Massachusetts.
October 21: Leader of the Opposition Stanley Barton declares that Communists have no place in the Labour Party.
October 22: The Imperial Chinese Air Force exhibits a new jet bomber over a military parade in Peking.
October 23: Moroccan troops begin a series of penetrations of Spanish West Africa.
October 24: Archaeologists in Samoa find a remarkable collection of advanced ruins buried beneath the jungle.
October 25: Waves of public protests in Guatemala over British refusal to discuss disputed territories in British Honduras.
October 26: An article in The Timesdescribes the curious revival of popularity of music hall in Britain.
October 27: The Indian delegates on the Imperial Council propose a motion in favour of expedited decolonisation in Africa and Asia.
October 28: Britain relaxes restrictions on the import of foreign mushrooms.
October 29: Toyota begins the export of automobiles to the United States, but is still restricted from exporting to countries within the British Empire.
October 30: Spanish Legionaires fire upon Moroccan irregulars near their mutual border.
October 31: Zombies attack and overrun a Haitian village.
November
November 1: US Class I railroads report that they currently operate a total of 32,584 diesel and 20,632 steam locomotives.
November 2: Opening of the world's first commercial titanium mill in Toronto, Ohio.
November 3: Haitian troops are overrun and consumed by a small horde of zombies in the mountains of Central Haiti.
November 4: A Romanian IL-14 crashes while coming into land at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, killing all 16 officials onboard, including General Secretary Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Foreign Minister Grigore Preoteasa and Politburo member Nikolai Ceausescu.
November 5: British explorers on Venus discover stone tablets clearly emblazoned with some form of writing.
November 6: An article in an American archaeological journal claims that evidence of the ruins of the Lemurian civilisation have been located in Madagascar.
November 7: The Gaither Report calls for a dramatic increase in American strategic offensive and defensive capacity.
November 8: US Marines land in Haiti to assist authorities in combatting the zombie outbreak.
November 9: Ion Gheorghe Maurer takes power as the interim General Secretary of the Communist Party of Romania.
November 10: Maiden flight of the Hawker P.1127 vertical take off fighter.
November 11: The War Office announces that the Army Reserve and Territorial Army will be merged into a single entity to allow for greater efficiency.
November 12: A Japanese research laboratory is raided by a gang of ninjas, who make off with an experimental serum and several other items.
November 13: Large scale flooding in the Po Valley and Venice.
November 14: Arrest of several dozen suspected gangsters at a clandestine meeting in Apalachin, New York.
November 15: Soviet spy Rudolf Abel is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for espionage in a New York court.
November 16: A Mexican DC-4 goes missing flying over the Bahamas.
November 17: British Rail begins trials of a magical levitation train.
November 18: The Soviet Union begins plans for the construction of an orbital space station.
November 19: Egyptologists discover a puzzling series of hieroglyphs that appear to show electrical lights, flying machines, rocket launches and armoured vehicles.
November 20: Foreign Secretary Wooster declares that Antarctica remains an integral part of the British Empire.
November 21: Rearmament of the Egyptian Armed Forces begins.
November 22: Mickey Mantle wins the MVP of the American League for the second time.
November 23: USAF and USMC fighter-bombers eliminate remaining pockets of zombies with heavy napalm attacks.
November 24: American wizards demonstrate the use of a sorcerously enhanced heat ray to intercept an artillery shell.
November 25: Edward Gein is found guilty of murder in Waushara County Court, Wisconsin and sentenced to death.
November 26: Installation of Bristol Bloodhound SAGW sites around Constantinople begins.
November 27: Construction of an atomic reactor begins in Spain as part of the Spanish nuclear weapons project.
November 28: Adventurers claim to have discovered the hidden treasure of Captain Kidd on Oak Island.
November 29: Indian forces withdraw from Tibet.
November 30: Indonesian President Sukarno survives an assassination attempt in Jakarta.
December
December 1: The Indonesian government declares that all Dutch businesses and property will to be nationalised.
December 2: Women are granted the right to vote in Afghanistan.
December 3: Release of Laurence Olivier's theatrical adaption of Macbeth in British cinemas.
December 4: Two passenger trains collide in heavy fog in Lewisham, England, killing 92 people.
December 5: Sukarno announces the expulsion of all Dutch nationals in Indonesia.
December 6: The AFL-CIO votes to expel the Teamsters from their ranks.
December 7: Italian per capita income growth for 1957 exceeds every other major European nation.
December 8: A French torpedo boat collides with an RN MTB off Calais, seriously damaging both vessels.
December 9: The Shah of Persia summons a conclave of politicians and thinkers from across the nation to debate the issue of national reform and modernisation.
December 10: Sir Alexander Todd is awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
December 11: Three drug smugglers are arrested by a special squad lead by renowned LAPD Detective Sergeant Joe Friday.
December 12: Surgeons in the United States conduct an experimental operation proving the viability of the artificial heart.
December 13: A tense confrontation between the Dutch cruiser Eendracht and three Indonesian warships off the Bacan Islands ends with the arrival of RNLAF Canberras from Kao Bay.
December 14: Soviet fighters attempt to shoot down a USAF RB-47 near Kamchatka; the aircraft is damaged, but survives to land at an RCAF airfield in Alaska.
December 15: Australia and New Zealand agree to a reduction of economic barriers between the two nations.
December 16: A Hawaiian referendum on the issue of full statehood results in 93.4% voting to become a US state.
December 17: Fire rips through the East End of London, destroying a number of warehouses and housing tenements.
December 18: The results of the Korean referendum are announced, with 26% supporting a constitutional monarchy, 24% supporting a republic, 24% supporting a parliamentary democracy and 24% supporting a socialist democracy. Each faction claims that the result supports their position and alleges voting irregularities.
December 19: Indian nationalists make substantial gains in local elections.
December 20: American doctors declare that the worst of the Asian Flu pandemic is over.
December 21: Icelandic patrol boats clash with British fishing vessels.
December 22: The High Court of Australia rules that the Commonwealth Government's declaration on the illegality of a dockside worker's strike was valid.
December 23: First public meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Rearmament in London.
December 24: A German Shepherd working for the Murder Squad of the Vienna Police rescues two schoolboys trapped by a dastardly criminal in an aquarium and is decorated by the Kaiser for his feats.
December 25: Christmas is celebrated across the Free World, with NORAD's regular good-natured attempt's to intercept Father Christmas's sleigh once again falling short.
December 26: The Avro Arrow enters service with the Royal Canadian Air Force.
December 27: Commissioning of the German aircraft carrier SMS Kaiser Wilhelm IV.
December 28: British wizards demonstrate a new levitation spell of unprecedented strength.
December 29: A diplomatic incident occurs in Madrid as the outraged French defence attache challenges British officer Major George Flashman to a duel after a dastardly insult to his wife.
December 30: President Thompson agrees to a Franco-South Vietnamese request for the supply of defence equipment and material.
December 31: The Soviet Union launches a new reconnaissance satellite.
