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| 1957 |
| | | US paratroops enforce desegregation in Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas | |
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| 1957 |
| | | A country doctor, François Duvalier, is elected president of Haiti on a massive popular vote | |
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| 1957 |
| | | English author Stevie Smith publishes her collection of poems Not Waving but Drowning | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Laurence Olivier brings the music-hall artist Archie Rice vibrantly to life in John Osborne's The Entertainer | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The USSR launches Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The success of the USSR in launching Sputnik prompts the establishment of NASA in the USA | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim create the Broadway musical West Side Story | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal wins the Jury Prize at Cannes | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Christian Dior dies and is followed by Yves St Laurent as head designer at the famous fashion house | |
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| 1957 |
| | | German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen uses three separate orchestras to achieve acoustic space in Gruppen | |
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