10/14/1957 - Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
10/20/1957 - Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary
10/30/1957 - Soviet Union launches, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika
11/25/1957 - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
11/26/1957 - WCVB TV channel 5 in Boston, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
11/27/1957 - Carla
was born 12/05/1957 - NYC is 1st city to legislate against racial or religious discrimination in housing market (Fair Housing Practices Law)
12/06/1957 - 1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
12/02/1957 - 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport, Penn)
12/19/1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
12/20/1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service