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Karen Pence, American educator, and teacher, 48th Second Lady of the United States. January 4 – Patty Loveless, American country music singer. January 6. Freddie Glenn, American spree killer and rapist, convicted of murdering the younger sister of actor Kelsey Grammer. Nancy Lopez, American golfer.
- Egypt --- Suez Canal Crisis 1956 - 1957. Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal. More Information and Timeline for the Suez Crisis. More Information and Timeline For The 1956 - 57 Suez Canal Crisis.
- United States -- First Frisbee Toy 1. Wham-O releases the first Frisbee toys for sale during January . 2. The most common origin story for the name of the flying disc is that college students would throw empty pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company in Connecticut in the late 1800s.
- Andrei Gromyko Minister of Foreign Affairs. Andrei Gromyko is appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the USSR. Andrei Gromyko was appointed as the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs in February .
- United Kingdom -- Singapore Self Rule. Singapore and the United Kingdom agree to self-rule in Singapore during April. The decision was made during the four week long Singapore Constitutional Conference which was held in London.
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Jan 22, 2013 · Jan 10 Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates. Singer and Actor Bing Crosby. Jan 11 American plane mass-murderer Jack Gilbert Graham is executed via the Gas Chamber. Jan 11 The African Convention is founded in Dakar.
FUN FACTS: 71 cities have populations of one million or more in 1957; 40 years earlier such cities numbered only 16. Frisbees are released and become wildly popular. Be the first to commment on this article. MAJOR EVENTS: Soviet Union inaugurates the "Space Age" by launching Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite.
- 1950. January 14, 1950 - The United States recalls all consular officials from China after the seizure of the American consul general in Peking. More. January 17, 1950 - The Brinks robbery in Boston occurs when eleven masked bandits steal $2.8 million from an armored car outside their express office.
- 1951. February 28, 1951 - Preliminary report from the Senator Estes Kefauver investigation that had begun on May 11, 1950 into organized crime is issued, stating that gambling take was in excess of $20 billion per year.
- 1952. February 14, 1952 - The 1952 Winter Olympics open in Helsinki, Finland with thirty participating nations. During these games, the first triple jump in figure skating history is performed by Dick Button, who won one of the four gold medals gained by U.S. athletes.
- 1953. April 25, 1953 - The description of a double helix DNA molecule is published by British physicist Francis Crick and American scientist James D. Watson.
In 1957, the post-World War II baby boom peaked. President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the court-ordered integration of public schools, and the Little Rock Nine bravely integrated Little Rock’s Central High School on September 25, 1957. In October, the Soviet Union launched the first space satellite, Sputnik I.
In 1957, the Census Bureau reported that there were 171,984,130 people in the United States, and 2,889,768,830 in the entire world. Today, there are 6.6 billion people in the world, including more than 300 million Americans. 10. Rabbit ears were popping up all over the place.
