The events of 1957
- 09 January 1957
Sir Anthony Eden announces his resignation as Prime Minister due to ill health.
- 10 January 1957
Harold Macmillan takes over as Prime Minister from Sir Anthony Eden.
- 16 January 1957
The Cavern Club opens its doors in Liverpool.
- 03 March 1957
Eurovision Song Contest – The Netherlands wins the second Eurovision Song Contest with Net als toen by Corry Brokken.
- 01 April 1957
The BBC April Fool the nation with a spaghetti tree spoof documentary.
- 12 April 1957
Allen Ginsberg poem Howl, is seized by U.S. customs officials on the grounds of obscenity after being printed in the UK.
- 15 May 1957
Football – Stanley Matthews ends his international playing career.
- 15 May 1957
Britain explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
- 31 May 1957
The U.S. Playwright Arthur Miller is found guilty of contempt by a U.S. Federal Judge.
- 27 June 1957
The Medical Research Council announce there is a Smoking and lung cancer link.
- 04 August 1957
Motor Racing – Juan Manuel Fangio, claims his 5th formula one world drivers championship.
- 04 September 1957
the Government back a report that suggests homosexual relationships between consenting adults should no longer be a criminal offence.
- 25 September 1957
U.S. Civil Rights – the Little Rock school crisis ends as 1,000 troops help nine black children attend the school.
- 01 October 1957
Asian Flu vaccine to be distributed on the National Health Services.
- 04 October 1957
Soviet Union launch the first satellite to orbit the earth – Sputnik 1.
- 11 October 1957
The largest fully steerable radio telescope Radio telescope comes into service at Jodrell Bank.
- 30 October 1957
The Government reveals plans to allow and woman attain life peerages within the House of Lords for the first time.
- 03 November 1957
Soviet Union Sputnik Space Program The launches Sputnik 2 which includes the first animal in space – a dog named Laika.
- 06 November 1957
Elvis Presley film Jailhouse Rock opens in the U.S.
