January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
Day of death September 18, 1957
The temperature on September 18, 1957 was between 13.4 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain during 11.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
August 1 » The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
December 20 » The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.
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