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 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
Weather November 3, 1957
The temperature on November 3, 1957 was between 6.9 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.
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