A Look Back At
Born in 1957
What Was Life Like in 1957?
Who Was in Charge?
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
What Things Cost
Gas (per gallon)
$0.31
Loaf of Bread
$0.19
Average House
$10,600
Weekly Wage
$77
Events of 1957 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1957 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 4 – Standard & Poor's first publishes the S&P 500 Index in the United States.
- July 16 – United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds, setting a new transcontinental speed record.
- September 5 – Viking Press publishes On the Road by Jack Kerouac.
- September 26 – West Side Story, a new musical by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.
- October 10 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
- October 10 – Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is published.
- December 18 – The Bridge on the River Kwai is released in the U.S. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Additional Oscars go to Alec Guinness (eh Actor) and David Lean (eh Director), among others.
- December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.
Popular Toys & Games
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