About the day » Monday March 18, 1957Calender converter

• Kieft, Alkmaar († 1957)
• Evadne Joanne Trox, New York
• Cornelis Petrus Jacobus Hoogervorst, Ter Aar († 2004)
• Cornelis Hoogervorst, Ter Aar (Aardam) († 2004)
• NN Kieft, Alkmaar († 1957)
• N.n. de Boer, Kampen († 1957)
• "kind van" Renden, Harderwijk († 1957)
• Geke Pytrik FELKERS, Oosterwolde, Friesland, Nederland († 1962)
• Lieuwe Cornelis Blanksma († 2009)
• Janette Lynn VANDENBOS, Boise, Ada, Idaho († 1978)

• Barend van OLST (67), Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Blok (63), Alkmaar
• Kieft (0), Alkmaar
• A.J(Aloysius) Evers (58), Enschede
• Bastiaan Leendert de Snoo (54), Rotterdam
• Aafke VAN DER LAAN, Slochteren Groningen Netherlands
• Antonius Henricus Holdert (95), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Arie GROEN (80), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Anthonie Heegers (75), Breukelen
• Aafke van der Laan (55), Groningen

• 1955 » Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
• 1955 » Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game show host
• 1956 » Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam († 2008)
• 1956 » Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
• 1956 » Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler
• 1957 » Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut
• 1958 » Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist and author († 1990)
• 1959 » Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
• 1960 » Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 » Richard Biggs, American actor († 2004)

• 1939 » Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
• 1954 » Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
• 1965 » Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1973 » Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
• 1977 » Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Peter
5. Willem
6. Hendrik
7. Robert
8. Pieter
9. Gerrit
10. Petrus
11. John
12. Paul
13. Dirk
14. Johan
15. Wilhelmus
16. Michael

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Elisabeth
4. Anna
5. Cornelia
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Yvonne
10. Margaretha
11. Hendrika
12. Petronella
13. Marianne
14. Jacoba
15. Ingrid
16. Linda

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
• January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
• January 11 » The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal.
• March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
• September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
• October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.

The temperature on March 18, 1957 was between 7.5 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.