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| 1957 |
| | | US novelist John Cheever publishes The Wapshot Chronicle, depicting a wealthy and eccentric family in Massachusetts | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Fred Hoyle, William Fowler, and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge explain stellar nucleosynthesis | |
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| 1957 |
| | | At a conference in Bermuda, Macmillan meets Eisenhower and patches up the 'special relationship' after the rift over Suez | |
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| 1957 |
| | | US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Australian artist Arthur Boyd begins his series of paintings about an aboriginal stockman, Love, Marriage and Death of a Half-Caste | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The Hawk in the Rain is English author Ted Hughes' first volume of poems | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Six founding nations (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, West Germany) establish the European Economic Community (EEC) | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The FNLA is established, with US support, as a guerrilla group to fight for a non-communist independent Angola | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Jack Kerouac publishes a largely autobiographical novel, On the Road, describing his experiences travelling through the US and Mexico | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Arnold Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, incomplete at his death, has its premiere in Zurich | |
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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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| 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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| 1957 |
| | | Boris Pasternak's only novel, Doctor Zhivago, is first published in an Italian translation | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Oscar Niemeyer is appointed chief architect for his country's new capital, Brasilia | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The Russian spacecraft Sputnik II puts into space a living creature, the dog Laika | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Latvian-Canadian dancer Ludmilla Chiriaeff founds the Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Abdul Rahman Putra becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Harold Macmillan's chancellor, Peter Thoneycroft, and his entire treasury team resign when he overrules them on economic policy | |
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