January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
October 1 » Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death October 15, 1957
The temperature on October 15, 1957 was between 5.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
March 8 » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
May 22 » South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
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