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| 1957 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev's position in the Soviet Communist party is secure after the failure of a plot to remove him | |
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| 1957 |
| | | In Voss Australian author Patrick White creates an epic novel about a disastrous attempt to cross the continent | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Polish-born British composer Andrzej Panufnik wins an international reputation with his Sinfonia elegiaco | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The publication of the novel Justine launches Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Spanish-born Paris designer Cristóbal Balenciaga produces an ostensibly shapeless garment, the 'sack', that greatly excites the world of fashion | |
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| 1957 |
| | | In Syntactic Structures Noam Chomsky proposes the revolutionary theory that humans inherit an innate universal grammar | |
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| 1957 |
| | | John Diefenbaker heads a minority government in Canada, ending twenty-two years of Liberal rule | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Barbadian cricketer Gary Sobers, playing in Kingston, Jamaica, against Pakistan, makes a record Test score of 365 not out | |
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| 1957 |
| | | David Lean directs William Holden, Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins in The Bridge on the River Kwai | |
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| 1957 |
| | | English author John Braine publishes his first novel, Room at the Top | |
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