At A Glance

4 February 1957 at a glance

Day of the week
4 February 1957 was a Monday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “The Garden of Eden” by Frankie Vaughan.
Top Film of 1957
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1957 was The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Star sign
The star sign for 4 February is Aquarius.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 4 February 1957 fell in the Year of the Rooster.
Birthstone
The birthstone for February is Amethyst.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 4 February 1957 was Waxing Crescent.

On this day: 4 February

  • 1945 World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority.
  • 1945 World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
  • 1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
  • 1961 The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
  • 1967 Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.

Famous people born on 4 February

  • Alice Cooper, American singer-songwriter (born 1948)
  • Hunter Biden, American attorney and lobbyist (born 1970)
  • Natalie Imbruglia, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (born 1975)
  • Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (1913–2005)

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Events of 1957 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '1957 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 16 January – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool as a jazz club.
  • 6 March – The Northern Territories protectorate and British Togoland are annexed to the Crown, which territories together with Ashanti and Gold Coast become Ghana which is independent of the United Kingdom.
  • 2 May – The Hammer Film Productions' The Curse of Frankenstein is released.
More events of 1957 →Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Life in 1957

Prime Minister

Harold Macmillan

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

9p

Loaf of Bread

6p

Average House

£2,249

Weekly Wage

£11.65

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