October 11th 1957.

The Orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket carrying Sputnik I was first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer by teams at The M.I.T. Computation Center and Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

October 12th 1957

Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

these shows debuted:

Leave it to Beaver
American Bandstand made its national debut (Philadelphia had been airing it locally since 1952)

Buddy Holly and the Crickets had their first hit with "That'll be the Day"

The movie that nobody can watch without a box of Kleenex handy, "Old Yeller" also came that year.

October 14, 1957

Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1

October 24th 1957 - the USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.

October 26th 1957 - Vatican Radio begins broadcasting

October 28th 1957 - WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting

November 1st 1957 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

November 2nd 1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.

November 3rd 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit. 

November 6th 1957 - Félix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France

October 14, 1957

Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
I like the You Tube videos of same.

November 7th 1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.

November 16th 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

November 25th 1957 - President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech.

December 5th 1957 - Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.

December 6th 1957 – Project Vanguard: An attempt to launch the first American satellite failed with an explosion on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

December 19th 1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances.

December 20th 1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service

Here are the biggest hits in America in 1957, according to Billboard magazine!

1  ALL SHOOK UP - Elvis Presley (#1)
2  LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND - Pat Boone (#1)
3  LITTLE DARLIN' - Diamonds
4  YOUNG LOVE - Tab Hunter (#1)
5  SO RARE - Jimmy Dorsey
6  DON'T FORBID ME - Pat Boone
7  SINGING THE BLUES - Guy Mitchell (#1)
8  YOUNG LOVE - Sonny James
9  TOO MUCH - Elvis Presley (#1)
10  ROUND AND ROUND - Perry Como (#1)

11 BYE BYE LOVE - Everly Brothers
12 TAMMY - Debbie Reynolds (#1)
13 PARTY DOLL - Buddy Knox (#1)
14 (LET ME BE YOUR) TEDDY BEAR c/w LOVING YOU - Elvis Presley (#1)
15 BANANA BOAT (DAY-O) - Harry Belafonte
16 JAILHOUSE ROCK - Elvis Presley (#1)
17 A WHITE SPORT COAT (AND A PINK CARNATION) - Marty Robbins
18 COME GO WITH ME - Dell-Vikings
19 WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE - Everly Brothers (#1)
20 YOU SEND ME - Sam Cooke (#1)

21 SEARCHIN' - Coasters
22 SCHOOL DAY - Chuck Berry
23 GONE - Ferlin Husky
24 DIANA - Paul Anka (#1)
25 A TEENAGER'S ROMANCE - Ricky Nelson
26 THE BANANA BOAT SONG - Tarriers
27 HONEYCOMB - Jimmie Rodgers (#1)
28 WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON - Jerry Lee Lewis
29 DARK MOON - Gale Storm
30 THAT'LL BE THE DAY - Crickets (#1)

31 BUTTERFLY - Charlie Gracie
32 MOONLIGHT GAMBLER - Frankie Laine
33 TEENAGE CRUSH - Tommy Sands
34 IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY - Johnny Mathis
35 SILHOUETTES - Rays
36 BUTTERFLY - Andy Williams
37 MARIANNE - Terry Gilkyson & The Easy Riders
38 I'M WALKIN' - Fats Domino
39 CHANCES ARE - Johnny Mathis
40 SEND FOR ME - Nat "King " Cole

41 RAINBOW - Russ Hamilton
42 BE-BOP BABY - Ricky Nelson
43 SHORT FAT FANNY - Larry Williams
44 THE GREEN DOOR - Jim Lowe
45 I'M GONNA SIT RIGHT DOWN AND WRITE MYSELF A LETTER - Billy Williams
46 OLD CAPE COD - Patti Page
47 MR LEE - Bobbettes
48 BLUEBERRY HILL - Fats Domino
49 WHISPERING BELLS - Dell-Vikings
50 BLUE MONDAY - Fats Domino


And the 25 biggest hits on the UK for the same year are:

1  LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND - Pat Boone
2  DIANA - Paul Anka (#1)
3  ALL SHOOK UP - Elvis Presley (#1)
4  YOUNG LOVE - Tab Hunter (#1)
5  ISLAND IN THE SUN - Harry Belafonte
6  TEDDY BEAR - Elvis Presley
7  YES, TONIGHT JOSEPHINE - Johnnie Ray (#1)
8  DON'T FORBID ME - Pat Boone
9  WHEN I FALL IN LOVE - Nat 'King' Cole
10 LONG TALL SALLY - Little Richard

11 LET'S HAVE A PARTY - Elvis Presley
12 GAMBLIN' MAN c/w PUTTIN' ON THE STYLE - Lonnie Donegan (#1)
13 MARY'S BOY CHILD - Harry Belafonte (#1)
14 THAT'LL BE THE DAY - Crickets (#1)
15 GARDEN OF EDEN - Frankie Vaughan (#1)
16 SINGING THE BLUES - Guy Mitchell
17 BUTTERFLY - Andy Williams (#1)
18 ROCK-A-BILLY - Guy Mitchell (#1)
19 SINGING THE BLUES - Tommy Steele (#1)
20 ALL THE WAY - Frank Sinatra

21 WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE - Everly Brothers
22 TAMMY - Debbie Reynolds
23 I LOVE YOU BABY - Paul Anka
24 REMEMBER YOU'RE MINE - Pat Boone
25 APRIL LOVE - Pat Boone

January 18th 1958 - Willie O'Ree, the first African American National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut.

January 19 1958 - Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League

January 21st 1958 - The last Fokker C.X in military service, the Finnish Air Force FK-111 target tower, crashed, killing the pilot and winch-operator.

January 26th 1958 - Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.

January 28th 1958: Lego first produced the modern style of building brick

http://www.google.co.uk/logos/lego08.gif

January 28th 1958 - Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate begin their murder spree with the killings of her parents and infant sister.

January 29th 1958 - Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed

January 31st 1958 -


Explorer program: Explorer I - The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.

February 1st 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.

February 5th 1958 – A hydrogen bomb now known as the Tybee Bomb disappeared off the shores of Tybee Island, Georgia after it was jettisoned during a practice exercise when the bomber carrying it collided in midair with a fighter plane.

February 6th 1958 – British European Airways Flight 609, carrying the Manchester United football team, a number of supporters and journalists, crashed while attempting to take off from Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany, killing eight players and 15 others.

February 7th 1958 - Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced.

February 8th 1968 - American civil rights movement: A civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken-up by highway patrolmen leading to the deaths of three college students.

February 19th 1958 - Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records

February 21st 1958 – British artist Gerald Holtom designed a logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that became more commonly known as the peace symbol.

February 22nd 1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.

February 23rd 1958 - Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world driving champion Juan Manuel Fangio.

February 27th 1958 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.

February 28th 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.

March 1st 1958 - Samuel Alphonsus Stritch, is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first American member of the Roman Curia.

March 3rd 1958 - Nuri as-Said becomes the prime minister of Iraq for the 14th time.

March 5th 1958:


Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
Explorer 2 spacecraft launches, fails to reach Earth orbit.

March 12th 1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"

March 16th 1958 - Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

March 17th 1958 – Vanguard 1 the first solar-powered satellite, was launched. It is the oldest human-launched object still in Earth orbit today.

March 25th 1958 - Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight.

March 26th 1958 - The United States Army launches Explorer 3.

March 27th 1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

April 4th 1958 - The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London.

April 10th 1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco

April 14th 1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

April 18th 1958 - A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum.

May 13th 1958:

During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard M. Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
Velcro's trade mark is registered.

May 15th 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

May 18th 1958 - An F-104 Starfighter sets a world speed record of 1,404.19 mph (2,259.82 km/h).

May 19th 1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks

May 19th 1958 - South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 31 weeks


Did any songs from the album go number one in the singles chart?

Did any songs from the album go number one in the singles chart?
Not in this case.

The only South Pacific song I know (with further research required) is Happy Talk by Captain Sensible which did reached #1 in the UK Charts in 1982

May 21st 1958 - United Kingdom Postmaster General Ernest Marples announces that from December, Subscriber Trunk Dialling will be introduced in the Bristol area.

May 23rd 1958 - Explorer 1 (also known as satellite 1958 Alpha) the first Earth satellite ceases transmission.

May 24th 1958 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.

May 27th 1958 - The F-4 Phantom II (an American two-seat, twin-engined, all-weather, long-range supersonic fighter-bomber) flies for the first time.

May 30th 1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II and Korean War buried in Arlington

June 1sr 1958 - Charles de Gaulle brought out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.

June 9th 1958 - London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, UK officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.

June 23rd 1958 - The Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers.

July 1st 1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

July 5th 1958 - First ascent of Gasherbrum I, 11th highest peak on the earth.

July 7th 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.

July 10th 1958 - Alaska, highest tsunami wave ever recorded at Lituya Bay, at 524 m high.

July 14th 1958 – King Faisal II, the last king of Iraq, was overthrown by a military coup d'état led by Abd al-Karim Qasim.

July 25th 1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) holds its first congress in Cotonou.

July 26th 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

I may be a little late for this, but 1958 was the year that two Major League Baseball teams moved west, namely the New York (turned San Francisco) Giants and the Brooklyn (turned Los Angeles) Dodgers. The Dodgers played their home games in the Los Angeles Coliseum and posted a losing record during their first season on the West Coast.

July 29th 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law, establishing a new federal non-military space agency known as NASA.

August 3rd 1958 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus made the world's first submerged voyage across the North Pole.

August 3rd 1958 - The Billboard Hot 100 is founded

August 3rd 1958 – The nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus made the world's first submerged voyage across the North Pole.


That sub was built in Groton, Connecticut - not too far from where I'm living now

That sub was built in Groton, Connecticut - not too far from where I'm living now
August 5th 1958 - Atomic sub USS Nautilus completes 1st trip under North Pole

August 6th 1958 - Australian runner Herb Elliot broke the world record for the mile at the Morton Stadium in Dublin, in a time of 3:54.5.

Hey...on August 16, 1958, pop singer Madonna was born, as Madonna Louise Ciccone, in Bay City, Michigan.

She's been making music for half her life now.

Auguust 18th 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.

Hey...on August 16, 1958, pop singer Madonna was born, as Madonna Louise Ciccone, in Bay City, Michigan.

She's been making music for half her life now.

Auguust 18th 1958 - Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
So Madonna is two days older than Lolita.

August 23rd 1958 – The People's Liberation Army began an intense artillery bombardment of Quemoy , sparking the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

August 29th 1958 - United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

I was actually young!!!