January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
Day of death August 23, 1957
The temperature on August 23, 1957 was between 6.0 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
July 1 » The International Geophysical Year begins.
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 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
December 2 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
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