January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 6 » Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
Day of death August 25, 1957
The temperature on August 25, 1957 was between 9.9 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 22.9 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
July 26 » Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.
September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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