The temperature on August 9, 1957 was between 14.1 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
April 6 » Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
May 1 » Thirty-four people are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire, England.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
September 19 » Plumbbob Rainier becomes the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no fallout.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
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