December 1957

• In Indonesia, Sukarno announced the nationalization of 246 Dutch businesses.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
• Colombia held a referendum on the constitutional reform program of its military junta. This was the first time women in Colombia were allowed to vote, and the reforms included equal rights for men and women. 95.27% of voters approved of the program.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/01/archives/colombians-vote-today-on-accord-constitutional-change-sets-12-years.html |title=COLOMBIANS VOTE TODAY ON ACCORD; Constitutional Change Sets 12 Years of Parity to End Strife Between Parties |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 December 1957 |at=Page 27, columns 3-7 |access-date=23 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/03/archives/good-news-from-colombia.html |title=GOOD NEWS FROM COLOMBIA |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 December 1957 |at=Page 34, columns 2-3 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/16/archives/colombian-junta-has-wide-support-publics-distrust-dispelled-as-5.html |last=Bachrach |first=Fabian |title=COLOMBIAN JUNTA HAS WIDE SUPPORT; Public's Distrust Dispelled as 5 Military Rulers Follow Path Toward Democracy Junta Backed in Plebiscite Pledge Given on Elections |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 December 1957 |at=Page 14, columns 4-5 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Kolumbien, 1. Dezember 1957 : Verfassungsreform |trans-title=Colombia, December 1st, 1957 : Constitutional reform |url=https://www.sudd.ch/event.php?lang=en&id=co011957 |website=Direct Democracy |publisher=Beat Müller |date=10 August 2018 |language=de |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{Self-published inline|date=May 2023}}
• Born:
• Tjahjo Kumolo, Indonesian politician; in Surakarta, Indonesia (d. 2022, multiple organ failure){{cite web |title=Pemprov Babel Berduka atas Wafatnya Tjahjo Kumolo |url=https://babelprov.go.id/berita_detil/pemprov-babel-berduka-atas-wafatnya-tjahjo-kumolo |website=babelprov.go.id |publisher=Provincial Government of the Bangka Belitung |access-date=1 July 2022 |language=id |trans-title=Provincial Government of Babylon mourns the death of Tjahjo Kumolo |date=1 July 2022 |quote=Dikutip dari berbagai sumber dan situs pribadinya, Tjahjo Kumolo lahir di Surakarta Jawa Tengah pada 1 Desember 1957. Ia adalah seorang politikus Indonesia yang saat ini menjabat sebagai Menteri PANRB Indonesia sejak 23 Oktober 2019 pada Kabinet Indonesia Maju. [Quoted from various sources and his personal website, Tjahjo Kumolo was born in Surakarta, Central Java on 1 December 1957. He is an Indonesian politician who currently serves as Minister of PANRB Indonesia since 23 October 2019 in the Advanced Indonesia Cabinet.] |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702000735/https://babelprov.go.id/berita_detil/pemprov-babel-berduka-atas-wafatnya-tjahjo-kumolo |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Riwayat Penyakit Tjahjo Kumolo hingga Alami Komplikasi |trans-title=History of Tjahjo Kumolo's Disease to Experiencing Complications |url=https://www.cnnindonesia.com/gaya-hidup/20220701121427-255-815963/riwayat-penyakit-tjahjo-kumolo-hingga-alami-komplikasi |access-date=1 July 2022 |website=CNN Indonesia |language=id-ID |archive-date=1 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701062300/https://www.cnnindonesia.com/gaya-hidup/20220701121427-255-815963/riwayat-penyakit-tjahjo-kumolo-hingga-alami-komplikasi |url-status=live}}
• Deep Roy (born Mohinder Purba), Anglo-Indian actor, stuntman, puppeteer, and comedian; in Nairobi, Kenya Colony{{cite news |title=Today's Birthdays |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |date=December 1, 2014 |page=A9}}{{cite news |title=Famous Birthdays |newspaper=Minneapolis Star Tribune |date=December 1, 2017 |page=A2 |postscript=none}}{{cite web |title=Roy |department=Database |url=https://www.startrek.com/database_article/roy |website=StarTrek.com |publisher=CBS Studios Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, and CBS Interactive Inc. |access-date=8 April 2023}}
• Vesta Williams (born Mary Vesta Williams), American singer-songwriter; in Coshocton, Ohio (d. 2011, hypertensive heart disease){{cite news |url=https://obits.cleveland.com/us/obituaries/cleveland/name/vesta-williams-obituary?pid=153772693 |title=Vesta Williams Obituary |agency=The Associated Press |newspaper=Cleveland Plain Dealer |date=23 September 2011 |access-date=1 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9073477.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120110150756/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9073477.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 10, 2012 |title=The Family of R&B Singer Vesta Williams Releases Official Statement on Final Cause of Her Death |publisher=Prweb.com |access-date=2014-07-03}}

• At 4:30 a.m., the reactor at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, reached criticality for the first time. The plant would become fully operational on December 23.{{cite web |title=Historic Achievement Recognized: SHIPPINGPORT ATOMIC POWER STATION: A National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark |url=http://files.asme.org/ASMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/5643.pdf |website=American Society of Mechanical Engineers |page=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717051921/http://files.asme.org/ASMEORG/Communities/History/Landmarks/5643.pdf |archive-date=17 July 2015 |access-date=8 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.energy.gov/lm/timeline-events-1951-1970 |title=Timeline of Events: 1951 to 1970 |work=DOE History Timeline |publisher=Office of Legacy Management, U.S. Department of Energy |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• The United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 126, concerning the dispute between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir.{{cite web |title=126 (1957). Resolution of 2 December 1957 |publisher=United Nations |date=2 December 1957 |access-date=3 May 2023 |url=https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/131/33/PDF/NR013133.pdf?OpenElement}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/03/archives/kashmir-mission-approved-by-un-soviet-abstains-from-voting-in.html |title=KASHMIR MISSION APPROVED BY U.N.; Soviet Abstains From Voting in Security Council Move Sending Graham to Area |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 December 1957 |at=Page 15, columns 3-6 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• The first four rounds of the 1958 NFL draft were held in Philadelphia.{{cite web |url=http://www.footballgeography.com/nfl-draft-sites/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905090250/http://www.footballgeography.com/nfl-draft-sites/ |archive-date=5 September 2015 |title=NFL Draft Locations |date=2 October 2014 |publisher=FootballGeography.com |access-date=4 May 2023}} The Chicago Cardinals selected quarterback King Hill of Rice University with the first overall draft pick.{{cite web |title=1958 NFL Player Draft |url=http://www.databasefootball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1958&lg=NFL |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327012719/http://www.databasefootball.com/draft/draftyear.htm?yr=1958&lg=NFL |archive-date=27 March 2008 |website=databaseFootball.com |publisher=databaseSports.com |url-status=usurped |access-date=4 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Harrison Ford, 73, American silent film actor, died of injuries from a 1951 pedestrian accident.{{cite book |last=Golden |first=Eve |author-link=Eve Golden |title=Golden Images: 41 Essays On Silent Film Stars |publisher=McFarland |year=2001 |page=36 |isbn=0-7864-0834-0}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.chilango.com/cine/famosos-con-el-mismo-nombre/ |title=10 celebridades con el mismo nombre |date=16 March 2016 |magazine=Chilango |access-date=16 April 2018 |location=Mexico |language=es |trans-title=10 celebrities with the same name}}
• Leslie Henson, 66, English comedian, producer and director{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/03/archives/leslie-henson-british-comedian-dies-stage-and-tv-star-had-been-a.html |title=Leslie Henson, British Comedian, Dies; Stage and TV Star Had Been a Producer |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 December 1957 |at=Page 35, columns 2-3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Manfred Sakel, 57, Austrian-American psychiatrist, developer of insulin shock therapy, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/03/archives/dr-sakel-is-dead-psychiatrist-57-originator-of-insulin-shock.html |title=DR. SAKEL IS DEAD; PSYCHIATRIST, 57; Originator of Insulin Shock Therapy for Schizophrenia --Had Treated Nijinsky |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 1 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/05/archives/dr-manfred-sakel.html |title=DR. MANFRED SAKEL |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 December 1957 |at=Page 34, column 3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• Seven-year-old Maria Ridulph disappeared from Sycamore, Illinois. Her body would be found near Woodbine, Illinois, on April 26, 1958.{{cite news |url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=STR19580429.2.6&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN---------- |title=Cause of Death Uncertain Find Maria's Body On Wooded Hill Funeral Set For Wednesday |newspaper=The True Republican |location=Sycamore, Illinois |date=29 April 1958 |volume=102 |issue=17 |at=Page 1, columns 5-8 |access-date=4 May 2023 |via=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections}} Jack McCullough (formerly known as John Tessier) would be convicted of the murder in 2012, but released from prison in 2016 and declared innocent in 2017 after a post-conviction review of evidence.{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/us/ridulph-mccullough-innocence-ruling/ |last=O'Neill |first=Ann |title=Man wrongfully convicted in 1957 cold case murder declared innocent |date=12 April 2017 |publisher=Cable News Network |access-date=4 May 2023}} The case remains unsolved.
• Died:
• Frank Gannett, 81, American publisher, founder of Gannett, died of complications from a fall.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/04/archives/herbert-f-leary-retired-admiral-exchief-of-the-eastern-sea-frontier.html |title=FRANK E. GANNETT, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Founder of Chain Embracing --22 Newspapers, 4 Radio, 3 TV Stations Was 81 STARTED AS NEWSBOY Conservative Republican, a Presidential Aspirant in 1940, Fought New Deal |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 December 1957 |at=Page 39, columns 1-2 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Herbert F. Leary, 72, United States Navy vice admiral{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/04/archives/herbert-f-leary-retired-admiral-exchief-of-the-eastern-sea-frontier.html |title=HERBERT F. LEARY RETIRED ADMIRAL; Ex-Chief of the Eastern Sea Frontier Dies--Headed State Maritime College |newspaper=The New York Times |date=4 December 1957 |at=Page 39, column 3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• A magnitude 8.1 earthquake in southern Mongolia killed 30 people and destroyed the towns of Dzun Bogd, Bayan-leg and Barum Bogd.{{cite book |chapter=Region 28: Siberia and Mongolia (Figure 20) |page=199 |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000014503 |last=Rothé |first=J. P. |title=The seismicity of the earth 1953-1965 |series=Earth sciences |volume=1 |location=Paris |publisher=UNESCO |year=1969 |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite web |date=18 April 2014 |work=Historic Earthquakes |url=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1957_12_04.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626112425/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/events/1957_12_04.php |archive-date=26 June 2015 |title=Gobi-Altay, Mongolia |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• The Lewisham rail crash in London, UK, killed 90 people.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91252053 |date=6 December 1957 |title=61 Killed In U.K. Train Collision |newspaper=The Canberra Times |agency=A.A.P.-Reuter |volume=31 |issue=9,345 |at=Page 1, columns 4-6 |access-date=30 April 2023 |via=Trove}}{{cite report |last=Langley |first=Brig. C.A. |title=Report on the Collision which occurred on 4th December 1957 near St. Johns station, Lewisham in the Southern Region British Railways |location=London |url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Lewisham1957.pdf |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |year=1958 |access-date=8 April 2023}}
• Speaking before the House of Lords during a debate on the Wolfenden report, Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, expressed support for legislation to decriminalize homosexual relations between consenting adults in the United Kingdom, while also advocating tougher legal measures against the "prostitute's customer".{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91252060 |date=6 December 1957 |title=Wolfenden Report Backed By Archbishop |newspaper=The Canberra Times |agency=A.A.P.-Reuter |volume=31 |issue=9,345 |at=Page 1, column 1 |access-date=1 May 2023 |via=Trove}}
• The American Rocket Society's proposal for an Astronautical Research and Development Agency, formally presented to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on October 14, 1957, was publicly announced.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/05/archives/rocket-men-urge-us-space-agency-give-president-exploration.html |last=Witkin |first=Richard |title=ROCKET MEN URGE U.S. SPACE AGENCY; Give President Exploration Schedule--An Expedition to Moon Is Planned |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 December 1957 |at=Page 5, column 2 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{Source attribution}} {{cite book |title=Project Mercury - A Chronology |chapter=Part 1 (A) Major Events Leading to Project Mercury March 1944 through December 1957 |last=Grimwood |first=James M. |series=NASA Special Publication-4001 |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/p1a.htm |publisher=NASA |access-date=8 April 2023}}

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• The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) aired Mars and Beyond, an episode of the Disneyland anthology television series, discussing Wernher von Braun's ideas for a human mission to Mars.{{cite news |last=Gould |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Gould |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/05/archives/tv-disney-goes-to-mars-film-on-channel-7-explores-mans-chance-of.html |title=TV: Disney Goes to Mars; Film on Channel 7 Explores Man's Chance of Completing a Trip to the Planet |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 December 1957 |at=Page 55, columns 4-5 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Dave Brown, British political cartoonist; in Barnehurst, Kent{{cite encyclopedia |last=Knudde |first=Kjell |title=Dave Brown |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |publisher=Lambiek |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/brown_dave.htm |date=26 December 2022 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Eric S. Raymond, American open-source software advocate; in Boston, Massachusetts{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
• Lee Smith, American baseball player; in Jamestown, Louisiana{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Died:
• Barclay Acheson, 70, chairman of Reader's Digest International Editions, brother of Lila Acheson Wallace, cerebral hemorrhage{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/06/archives/dr-barclay-acheson-editor-dies-at-70-international-readers-digest.html |title=Dr. Barclay Acheson, Editor, Dies at 70; International Reader's Digest Official |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 December 1957 |at=Page 30, columns 3-4 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Huisheng, 19, Chinese princess and Japanese noblewoman, committed joint suicide by firearm with her lover Takemichi Ōkubo. The event became known as the {{nihongo|Amagisan shinjū|天城山心中|Love Suicide at Mount Amagi}}.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/15/archives/young-lovers-death-by-suicide-mourned-and-debated-in-japan-tragedy.html |title=Young Lovers' Death by Suicide Mourned and Debated in Japan; Tragedy of Princess and Commoner Is Ascribed by Young to 'Feudalism,' by Elders to Influence of U.S. |last=Trumbull |first=Robert |newspaper=The New York Times |date=15 December 1957 |at=Page 7, columns 1-2 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Sir John Lavarack, 71, Australian World War II general, Governor of Queensland{{cite news |agency=Reuters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/05/archives/gen-lavarack-71-of-australia-dies-defender-of-tobruk-against-rommel.html |title=GEN. LAVARACK, 71, OF AUSTRALIA DIES; Defender of Toburk Against Rommel in April, 1941, Was Governor of Queensland |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite dictionary |first=David |last=Horner |author-link=David Horner |title=Lavarack, Sir John Dudley (1885–1957) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lavarack-sir-john-dudley-10790/text19137 |year=2000 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• José Alves Correia da Silva, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic priest, Bishop of Leiria{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/05/archives/correia-da-silva-bishop-of-fatima.html |title=CORREIA DA SILVA, 'BISHOP OF FATIMA' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=5 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/balvesc.html |title=Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org |date=9 October 2022 |publisher=David M. Cheney |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{Self-published inline|date=May 2023}}

• Sally (Thyra) Bowman (43), her daughter Wendy (14), and family friend Thomas Whelan (22) were beaten and shot to death at Sundown Station in South Australia while traveling by car from Alice Springs to Adelaide. 25-year-old Raymond John Bailey would be arrested for the murders in January 1958, convicted, and hanged on 24 June 1958. Investigative journalist Stephen Bishop asked for a posthumous pardon for Bailey in February 2013, but the request was denied.{{cite news |last=Robertson |first=Doug |title=Justice sought for hanged man Raymond John Bailey — 57 years later |url=http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/justice-sought-for-hanged-man-raymond-john-bailey-57-years-later/story-fni6uo1m-1227386294263 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150608010633/https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/justice-sought-for-hanged-man-raymond-john-bailey-57-years-later/story-fni6uo1m-1227386294263 |archive-date=8 June 2015 |access-date=8 May 2023 |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |department=News |date=6 June 2015}}
• All 326,000 Dutch nationals were expelled from Indonesia.{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91252057 |date=6 December 1957 |title=INDONESIA TO EXPEL DUTCH AS REPRISAL |newspaper=The Canberra Times |agency=A.A.P.-Reuter |volume=31 |issue=9,345 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3 |access-date=30 April 2023 |via=Trove}}
• In Bochum, West Germany, a gas explosion in an apartment house killed at least nine people and injured 15.{{cite news |agency=UP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/06/archives/nine-die-in-german-blast.html |title=Nine Die in German Blast |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 December 1957 |at=Page 9, column 1 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• An explosion and fire in Villa Rica, Georgia, killed 12 people and injured 30.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/06/archives/blast-and-fire-kill-12-and-injure-30-in-georgia-town.html |title=Blast and Fire Kill 12 and Injure 30 in Georgia Town |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=6 December 1957 |at=Page 10, columns 4-6 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• An announcement was made that an Advanced Research Projects Agency would be created in the United States Department of Defense to direct its space projects.

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• William Inge's autobiographical play The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, directed by Elia Kazan, opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/01/archives/culled-from-an-authors-past-out-of-the-past-memories-provide-basis.html |last=Inge |first=William |author-link=William Inge |title=CULLED FROM AN AUTHOR'S PAST; OUT OF THE PAST Memories Provide Basis Of Inge's New Play |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 December 1957 |at=Page A161, column 8 |access-date=23 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-dark-at-the-top-of-the-stairs-2661 |title=The Dark at the Top of the Stairs - Broadway Play - Original |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=23 May 2023}}
• Born: Dave Brown, Australian rugby league prop; in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia{{cite web |last=Whiticker |first=Alan |url=https://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/dave-brown--qld-/summary.html |title=Dave Brown - Playing Career - Summary |website=Rugby League Project |publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Guido Schmidt, 56, Austrian diplomat and politician, died of grippe.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/07/archives/guido-schmidt-57-austrian-exaide-foreign-minister-before-nazi.html |title=GUIDO SCHMIDT, 57, AUSTRIAN EX-AIDE; Foreign Minister Before Nazi Annexation in 1938 Dies-- Officer of Semperit Rubber |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1957 |at=Page 21, columns 3-4 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Thomas J. Spellacy, 77, American politician and lawyer, 47th Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/06/archives/thomas-spellacy-connecticut-aide-insurance-chief-hartford-mayor.html |title=THOMAS SPELLACY, CONNECTICUT AIDE; Insurance Chief, Hartford Mayor Four Terms, Dies-- Long a Democratic Leader Was Newspaper Man Resigned in Dispute |newspaper=The New York Times |date=6 December 1957 |at=Page 29, column 3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed, when the IGY Vanguard TV-3 rocket, the first with three live stages, exploded on the launch pad.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/07/archives/vanguard-rocket-burns-on-beach-failure-to-launch-test-satellite.html |title=VANGUARD ROCKET BURNS ON BEACH; FAILURE TO LAUNCH TEST SATELLITE ASSAILED AS BLOW TO U.S. PRESTIGE; SPHERE SURVIVES But Carrier Rises Only 2 to 4 Feet Before Flames Wreck It Satellite Undamaged Data to Be Studied According to Plan |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1957 |at=Page 1, columns 5-8 |access-date=2 May 2023}} The Soviet TASS news agency promptly reported the explosion.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/07/archives/failure-reported-quickly-in-russia-tass-gets-news-to-nation-with.html |title=FAILURE REPORTED QUICKLY IN RUSSIA; Tass Gets News to Nation With Unusual Speed-- Allies Are Shocked U.S. Colony Shocked |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1957 |at=Page 10, column 1 |access-date=2 May 2023}} President Eisenhower requested a full report on the launch failure from the United States Department of Defense.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/07/archives/rocket-disappoints-president-he-calls-for-report-on-failure-rocket.html |title=Rocket Disappoints President; He Calls for Report on Failure; Nixon Expresses Confidence |last=Mooney |first=Richard E. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1957 |at=Page 1, columns 7-8 |access-date=2 May 2023}} Physicist Joseph Kaplan, chairman of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year, cautioned the American public against hysteria over the failure, noting that initial experiments "seldom succeed".{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/07/archives/igy-head-warns-against-hysteria-kaplan-tells-rocket-society-that.html |title=I.G.Y. HEAD WARNS AGAINST HYSTERIA; Kaplan Tells Rocket Society That First Experiments 'Seldom Succeed' Kaplan Voices Optimism Popular Pressure Cited |last=Witkin |first=Richard |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1957 |at=Page 9, columns 1-2 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

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• Test pilots Herman Salmon and Roy Edwin Wimmer and flight engineers Louis Holland and William Spreuer made the first flight of the Lockheed L-188 Electra airliner from the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California.{{cite web |last=Swopes |first=Bryan R. |url=https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/6-december-1957/ |title=6 December 1957 |website=This Day in Aviation |date=6 December 2022 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• A survey showed that 14 boys had been fatally injured while playing high school football in the United States in 1957.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/07/archives/football-toll-is-14-school-federation-discloses-fatality-total-for.html |title=FOOTBALL TOLL IS 14; School Federation Discloses Fatality Total for 1957 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 December 1957 |at=Page S35, columns 3-4 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Steve Bedrosian, American baseball player; in Methuen, Massachusetts{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}
• Tom Brinkman, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives; in Cincinnati, Ohio{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
• Andrew Cuomo, American politician, 56th Governor of New York; in New York City{{cite news |url=https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/03/who-is-andrew-cuomo-about-the-ny-governor-leading-coronavirus-response-in-state.html |title=Who is Andrew Cuomo? About the NY governor leading coronavirus response in state |department=New York State |date=23 March 2020 |website=Syracuse.com |publisher=Advance Local Media LLC |access-date=8 April 2023}}
• Died:
• Claude Barnard, 67, Australian politician and government minister, died of cancer.{{cite dictionary |first=R. J. K. |last=Chapman |title=Barnard, Herbert Claude (1890–1957) |dictionary=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barnard-herbert-claude-9436/text16589 |year=1993 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Robert Esnault-Pelterie, 76, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist{{cite encyclopedia |last=Crouch |first=Tom D. |author-link=Tom D. Crouch |title=Robert Esnault-Pelterie |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=2 December 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Esnault-Pelterie |access-date=8 April 2023}}
• Hugh Mackay, 69, Canadian politician{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/08/archives/hugh-mackay-69-broker-in-canada.html |title=HUGH MACKAY, 69, BROKER IN CANADA |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 December 1957 |at=Page 88, column 4 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• A collision between two cars {{convert|35|mi}} south of Sebring, Florida, killed four adults and two children and injured three other children.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/08/archives/6-killed-in-florida-in-2car-collision.html |title=6 KILLED IN FLORIDA IN 2-CAR COLLISION |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UP |date=8 December 1957 |at=Page 85, column 1 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Born:
• John Lee Ka-chiu, Hong Kong police officer and politician; in British Hong Kong{{cite news |url=https://english.news.cn/20220508/117138765b234e4a8a779107c32c6d50/c.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808081356/https://english.news.cn/20220508/117138765b234e4a8a779107c32c6d50/c.html |archive-date=8 August 2022 |title=Profile: John Lee, HKSAR's sixth-term chief executive designate |date=8 May 2022 |publisher=Xinhua |language=en |access-date=8 May 2023 |url-status=live}}{{Better source needed|date=May 2023|reason=Source does not give day of birth, only month and year.}}
• Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019); in Zagga, Northern Region, British Nigeria{{cite web |url=https://press.un.org/en/2017/bio4963.doc.htm |website=United Nations |title=New Permanent Representative of Nigeria Presents Credentials |date=3 May 2017 |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Died:
• Sir Edmund Wyly Grier {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} DCL, 95, Australian-born Canadian portrait painter{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/09/archives/sir-wyly-grier-95-canadian-artist-portrait-painter-in-school-of.html |title=SIR WYLY GRIER, 95, CANADIAN ARTIST; Portrait Painter in School of Traditionalists Dies-- Led Royal Academy |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Canadian Press |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 5 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• William J. P. MacMillan, 76, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Prince Edward Island{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/08/archives/dr-mmillan-is-dead-former-premier-of-prince-edward-island-was-76.html |title=DR. M'MILLAN IS DEAD; Former Premier of Prince Edward Island Was 76 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=8 December 1957 |at=Page 88, column 5 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• The crash of Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 670 in a rainstorm, {{convert|180|mi}} southwest of Buenos Aires, killed 61 people. At the time, this was the worst aviation accident in the history of Argentina.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/09/archives/62-killed-in-crash-of-argentine-plane-62-killed-in-crash-of.html |title=62 Killed in Crash Of Argentine Plane; 62 Killed in Crash of Airliner In Storm in Southern Argentina Previous Argentine Crashes |newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 1, column 8 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19571208-0 |title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-4 LV-AHZ Bolivar, BA |work=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• In Opp, Alabama, five people died in a high speed head-on collision, including four airmen from Eglin Air Force Base.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/09/archives/5-die-in-headon-crash-4-airmen-from-eglin-victims-in-alabama.html |title=5 DIE IN HEAD-ON CRASH; 4 Airmen From Eglin Victims in Alabama Collision |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UP |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 20, column 8 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Fire destroyed a cottage {{convert|3|mi}} west of Park Falls, Wisconsin, killing eight children.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/09/archives/fire-kills-8-children-cottage-engulfed-by-flames-in-wisconsin-woods.html |title=FIRE KILLS 8 CHILDREN; Cottage Engulfed by Flames in Wisconsin Woods |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 54, column 6 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Peter Brown, Australian rules footballer{{cite web |last=Devaney |first=John |title=Peter Brown - Player Bio |url=https://australianfootball.com/players/player/peter%2Bbrown/11057 |website=Australian Football |department=Players |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Cai Guo-Qiang, Chinese artist; in Quanzhou, Fujian, China{{cite web |title=Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe |url-status=live |url=http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/cai/cai_overview.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004085639/http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/cai/cai_overview.html |archive-date=4 October 2009 |website=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |department=Past Exhibitions |access-date=30 April 2023}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13562100f |title=Notice de personne "Cai, Guo qiang (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Cai, Guo qiang (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=17 July 2019 |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Phil Collen, English rock guitarist (Def Leppard); in Hackney Central, London{{cite web |url=https://www.defleppard.com/member/phil-collen/ |title=Phil Collen |publisher=Def Leppard |year=2023 |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Slick (ring name of Kenneth Wayne Johnson), American professional wrestling manager; in Fort Worth, Texas{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Died:
• James A. Gallagher, 88, American banker and businessman, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/09/archives/james-gallagher-exlegislator-dies-philadelphian-served-in-house-4.html |title=James Gallagher, Ex-Legislator, Dies; Philadelphian Served in House 4 Years |newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 35, columns 2-3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000017 |title=GALLAGHER, James A. 1869 – 1957 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Reginald Sheffield, 56, English actor{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6213386/the-kansas-city-times/ |title=DICKENS ACTOR DIES. Reginald Sheffield Had Role of David Copperfield. |newspaper=The Kansas City Times |location=Kansas City, Missouri |agency=AP |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 23, column 1 |access-date=9 April 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/09/archives/reginald-sheffield-56-actor-since-1913-long-in-movies-dies-on-coast.html |title=REGINALD SHEFFIELD, 56; Actor Since 1913, Long in Movies, Dies on Coast |newspaper=The New York Times |date=9 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• A railway accident in Taiwan caused by children stacking ballast on the rails killed 19 people and injured 116.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• On the same day, the Codogno rail crash killed 15 people and seriously injured at least 30 in Codogno, Italy, when the Milan–Rome express crashed into a truck at a level crossing.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/10/archives/rail-wreck-kills-20-milanrome-express-smashes-into-truck-at.html |title=RAIL WRECK KILLS 20; Milan-Rome Express Smashes Into Truck at Crossing |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 December 1957 |at=Page 40, column 4 |access-date=2 May 2023}}Il Giornale del Mondo, anno, 1957 (nov-dic) ed. Cino del Duca, Historia, mensile illustrato n. 272 ottobre 1980 {{in lang|it}}
• Born:
• José Luis Gil, Spanish actor and voice actor; in Zaragoza, Spain{{cite news |title=José Luis Gil: "Trabajo como actor desde los diez aňos" |trans-title=José Luis Gil: "I've been working as an actor since I was ten years old" |date=3 December 2011 |url=http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/135457.html |last=Maira |first=Ángeles F. |newspaper=El Progreso |language=es |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205064612/http://elprogreso.galiciae.com/nova/135457.html |archive-date=5 December 2011 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Ernesto González, Nicaraguan Olympic lightweight boxer{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/4678 |title=Ernesto González |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Peter O'Mara, Australian jazz guitarist and composer{{cite web |url=https://www.schott-music.com/en/person/index/index/urlkey/peter-o-mara |title=Peter O'Mara |website=Schott Music Group |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Donny Osmond, American singer and actor (The Osmonds); in Ogden, Utah{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/donny-osmond-55246 |title=Donny Osmond - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=29 April 2023}}[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ogden-standard-examiner/44040370/ "Vital Statistics"], Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, December 9, 1957, p.15
• Ian Richards, English cricketer; in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England{{cite web |title=Ian Richards Profile - Cricket Player England {{!}} Stats, Records, Video |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/ian-richards-19668 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Died: Charles Patteson, 66, English field hockey player, cricketer and clergyman{{cite web |title=Charles Patteson Profile - Cricket Player England {{!}} Stats, Records, Video |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/charles-patteson-18793 |access-date=30 April 2023}}

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• Test pilot Guido Carestiato made the first flight of the Aermacchi MB-326 military jet trainer.Flight International, 20 September 1961, p. 492.{{cite book |editor-last=Taylor |editor-first=John W. R. |editor-link=John W. R. Taylor |title=Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1969–70 |location=London |publisher=Jane's Yearbooks |year=1969 |page=120}}
• Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson received the Nobel Peace Prize for his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations.{{cite news |title=Pearson Gets Prize, Asks Disarming |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/11/archives/pearson-gets-prize-asks-disarming.html |at=Page 3, columns 2-3 |access-date=30 April 2023}}{{cite web |title=Lester Bowles Pearson – Acceptance Speech |website=NobelPrize.org |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2023 |access-date=8 April 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/acceptance-speech/}}
• The United States Air Force created a Directorate of Astronautics to manage and coordinate astronautical research programs, including work on satellites and antimissile-missile weapons. Brigadier General Homer A. Boushey was named to head the office.{{cite news |title=AIR FORCE SETS UP NEW SPACE GROUP; Board to Manage Research on Missiles and Other Advanced Projects |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=12 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/12/archives/air-force-sets-up-new-space-group-board-to-manage-research-on.html |at=Page 7, column 1 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite news |last=Raymond |first=Jack |title=QUARLES IGNORED BY THE AIR FORCE; Astronautics Agency Set Up Despite Request for Delay, Defense Deputy Says |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/13/archives/quarles-ignored-by-the-air-force-astronautics-agency-set-up-despite.html |at=Page 15, columns 1-3 |access-date=3 May 2023}} James H. Douglas Jr., U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, rescinded the order on December 13, considering the creation of such a group before the activation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency to be premature.{{cite news |title=AIR FORCE YIELDS ON SPACE AGENCY; Suspends Its Order Creating Astronautics Directorate-- Misunderstanding Blamed |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/14/archives/air-force-yields-on-space-agency-suspends-its-order-creating.html |at=Page 8, column 4 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor; in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2012, complications from heart attack){{cite news |url=https://rocklandtimes.com/2012/09/06/michael-clarke-duncan-54-remembered-as-actor-and-bodyguard/ |title=Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, Remembered as Actor and Bodyguard |last=Abbatecola |first=Vincent |newspaper=Rockland County Times |date=6 September 2012 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Paul Hardcastle, English musician; in Kensington, London{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139322134 |title=Notice de personne "Hardcastle, Paul (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Hardcastle, Paul (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=8 July 2004 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Nancy Karetak-Lindell, Canadian politician; in Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories (now Arviat, Nunavut){{cite web |title=KARETAK-LINDELL, Nancy |work=PARLINFO |url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=1176ba24-9323-47d6-aea3-f62dde35d719&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience |department=Federal Experience |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602132650/http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=1176ba24-9323-47d6-aea3-f62dde35d719&Language=E&Section=FederalExperience |archive-date=2 June 2013 |publisher=Library of Parliament, Parliament of Canada |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• José Mário Vaz, 5th President of Guinea-Bissau; in Calequisse, Portuguese Guinea{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PBs9DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA563 |title=Guinea-Bissau |encyclopedia=The Statesman's Yearbook 2017: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World |series=The Statesman's Yearbook |location=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2016 |page=563 |isbn=978-1-349-68398-7 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-68398-7 |access-date=30 April 2023 |via=Google Books}}
• Died:
• Dan Bryant (born Leslie Vickery Bryant), 52, New Zealand mountaineer, died in a traffic collision.{{cite book |last=Astill |first=Tony |title=Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance 1935: The Forgotten Adventure |year=2005 |publisher=Tony Astill |edition=1st |page=8 |others=Section written by Norman Hardie |isbn=978-0954920104}}
• Gustav Waldemar Elmen, 80, Swedish-born American metallurgist{{cite news |title=Gustaf W. Elmen, Metallargist [sic], 80, Dies; Invented Magnetic Alloys for Bell System |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/11/archives/gustaf-w-elmen-metallargist-80-dies-invented-magnetic-alloys-for.html |at=Page 31, columns 2-3 |access-date=30 April 2023}}{{cite encyclopedia |last=((Britannica)) |first=((The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Gustav Waldemar Elmen |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=18 December 2022 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-Waldemar-Elmen |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Maurice McLoughlin, 67, American tennis champion{{cite news |title='California Comet,' Noted for Flashy Style, Helped Game to National Popularity; Maurice McLoughlin Dies at 67; U.S. Tennis Champion in '12-13 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=12 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/12/archives/california-comet-noted-for-flashy-style-helped-game-to-national.html |at=Page 29, columns 2-3 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Maurice McLoughlin |url=https://www.tennisfame.com/hall-of-famers/inductees/maurice-mcloughlin |year=2023 |publisher=International Tennis Hall of Fame |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Roland Fairbairn McWilliams {{post-nominals|country=CAN|KC}}, 83, Canadian politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba{{cite web |url=http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/mcwilliams_rf.shtml |last=Goldsborough |first=Gordon |title=Roland Fairbairn McWilliams (1874-1957) |work=Memorable Manitobans |publisher=Manitoba Historical Society |date=20 April 2022 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• James Stevenson-Hamilton, 90, first warden of South Africa's Kruger National Park{{cite web |url=https://www.krugerpark.co.za/first-warden-stevenson-hamilton.html |title=James Stevenson-Hamilton |department=Historical Figures |publisher=Siyabona Africa |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Napoleon Zervas, 66, Greek World War II Resistance leader, died of a heart ailment.{{cite news |title=GENERAL ZERVAS, LEADER IN GREECE; Resistance Officer Who Was Right-Wing Politician Dead --Brother Dies of Shock Bold Guerrilla Leader Joined Venizelos Coup |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=11 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/11/archives/general-zervas-leader-in-greece-resistance-officer-who-was.html |at=Page 31, column 3 |access-date=30 April 2023}}

• East Germany introduced a strict new passport law in an attempt to reduce the number of refugees fleeing to West Germany. The effect was that more East Germans would flee to the West from East Berlin. Although there were severe penalties for East Germans caught trying to escape to West Berlin, there were no physical barriers on the boundary between the two cities, and it was still possible to ride a subway train across the border. By 1961, when one-fifth of the East German population had emigrated to the West, the Communist government would erect the Berlin Wall and fortified boundaries along the rest of the nation's border to make escape almost impossible.{{Citation|last=Harrison|first=Hope Millard|title=Driving the Soviets Up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953–1961|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2003|page=99|isbn=0-691-09678-3}}
• I. I. Chundrigar resigned as Prime Minister of Pakistan after losing a vote of confidence.{{cite book |editor=Khan Tahawar Ali Khan |year=1961 |title=Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan |publisher=Biographical Research Institute, Pakistan |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sGtmAAAAMAAJ&q=i+i++chundrigar+born+1897 |access-date=23 January 2018 |language=en}} He was replaced on December 16 by Feroz Khan Noon.
• Ibrahim Ali Didi was forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Maldives by the Sultan Muhammad Fareed Didi. At the time, the Maldive Islands were a British protectorate. Ibrahim Nasir became the new Premier the next day.
• Died:
• Blue Peter, 21, British Thoroughbred racehorse, was euthanized after a heart attack.{{cite news |title=BLUE PETER DESTROYED; Stallion, 21, Won Epsom Derby and 2,000 Guineas in 1939 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/13/archives/blue-peter-destroyed-stallion-21-won-epsom-derby-and-2000-guineas.html |at=Page S38, column 6 |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Bios/Phalaris.htm |title=Blue Peter (GB) |website=bloodlines.net |publisher=Thoroughbred Bloodlines |year=2008 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Frederick G. Creed, 86, Canadian inventor{{cite news |title=FREDERICK CREED DIES; Inventor of Teleprinter Used Widely by Newspapers |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/13/archives/frederick-creed-dies-inventor-of-teleprinter-used-widely-by.html |at=Page 27, column 4 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Marie Suzette de Marigny Hall Dewey, 70, American Red Cross official, wife of Charles S. Dewey{{cite news |title=MRS. C. S. DEWEY, RED CROSS LEADER; Former Director in Chicago and Washington Dies-- Wife of Ex-Legislator |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/14/archives/mrs-cs-dewey-red-cross-leader-former-director-in-chicago-and.html |at=Page 21, column 3 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• John McDowell, 55, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, shot himself to death.{{cite news |title=EX-CONGRESSMAN COMMITS SUICIDE; McDowell of Pennsylvania Had Active Part With Nixon in Hiss Investigation Work in Hiss Case |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=12 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/12/archives/excongressman-commits-suicide-mcdowell-of-pennsylvania-had-active.html |at=Page 23, column 5 |access-date=2 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000422 |title=MCDOWELL, John Ralph 1902 – 1957 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Musidora, 68, French actress{{cite news |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1957/12/12/la-mort-de-musidora_2338577_1819218.html |title=La mort de Musidora |trans-title=The death of Musidora |author=R. G. |newspaper=Le Monde |date=12 December 1957 |language=fr |access-date=29 April 2023}}

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• Pilot Adrian E. Drew set a new world flight airspeed record of {{convert|1207.63|mph}}, flying a United States Air Force McDonnell F-101A Voodoo at Edwards Air Force Base in California.{{cite news |title=Air Force Jet Flies 1,207 M.P.H. To Break Britain's World Mark |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UP |date=13 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/13/archives/air-force-jet-flies-1207-mph-to-break-britains-world-mark.html |at=Page 18, columns 3-4 |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite web |last=Glenday |first=Craig |author-link=Craig Glenday |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1956-fastest-aircraft-393027 |title=1956: Fastest Aircraft |date=19 August 2015 |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• A B-52 jet bomber crashed on takeoff from Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, killing eight of the plane's nine crew members. The tail gunner, T. Sgt. Gene I. Graye, was the sole survivor.{{cite news |agency=AP |title=EIGHT CREWMEN DIE WHEN GIANT JET BOMBER CRASHES. |newspaper=The Montana Standard |location=Butte, Montana |date=13 December 1957}}, cited in {{cite web |url=https://www.gendisasters.com/washington/19267/fairchild-air-force-base-wa-b52-bomber-crashes-dec-1957 |title=Fairchild Air Force Base, WA B52 Bomber Crashes, Dec 1957 |last=Beitler |first=Stu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129060221/https://www.gendisasters.com/washington/19267/fairchild-air-force-base-wa-b52-bomber-crashes-dec-1957 |archive-date=29 January 2022 |website=GenDisasters.com |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Fairchild AFB |department=Air Force Bases |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fairchild.htm |publisher=GlobalSecurity.org |date=7 May 2011 |access-date=4 May 2023}} The accident was caused by trim motors that had been connected backwards.
• Born:
• Robert Lepage, Canadian playwright, actor and film and stage director; in Quebec{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb135191828 |title=Notice de personne "Lepage, Robert (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Lepage, Robert (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=25 January 2013 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Sheila E. (born Sheila Cecilia Escovedo), American percussionist, singer, author, and actress; in Oakland, California{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sheila-e-mn0000019953/biography |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=Sheila E. Biography, Songs, & Albums |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=8 April 2023}}
• Aïssata Tall Sall, Senegalese lawyer and politician; in Podor, Senegal{{cite web |url=https://www.senegel.org/en/people-society/celebrities/peopledetails/1862 |title=Aissata Tall SALL |department=Celebrities |publisher=SENEGEL - Senegalese Next Generation of Leaders |year=2022 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Pansy E. Black (pseudonym for Pansy Ellen Beach), 67, American stenographer and short story writer{{cite encyclopedia |first=John |last=Clute |author-link=John Clute |title=Black, Pansy E |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Clute |editor2-first=David |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-link=David Langford |location=London and Reading |publisher=SFE Ltd/Ansible Editions |date=12 September 2022 |edition=Web |access-date=23 May 2023 |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/black_pansy_e}}
• W. Langdon Kihn, 59, American portrait painter and illustrator{{cite news |title=W. LANGDON KIHN, ARTIST, 59, DEAD; Portrait Painter Was Noted for U.S. Indian Studies-- Illustrator for Books |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/13/archives/w-langdon-kihn-artist-59-dead-portrait-painter-was-noted-for-us.html |at=Page 27, column 1 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Robert Kurka, 35, American composer, died of leukemia.{{cite news |title=Robert F. Kurka, Composer, Dies at 35; Wrote Opera, Chamber and Other Music |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/13/archives/robert-f-kurka-composer-dies-at-35-wrote-opera-chamber-and-other.html |at=Page 27, columns 2-3 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Emmett Jay Scott, 84, American journalist, government official and educator, advisor to Booker T. Washington{{cite news |title=EMMETT J. SCOTT, EDUCATOR, WAS 84; Former Tuskegee Secretary Is Dead--U.S. Adviser on Negroes in World War I |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/14/archives/emmett-j-scott-educator-was-84-former-tuskegee-secretary-is-deadus.html |agency=AP |at=Page 21, column 4 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Louise Zabriskie, 70, American registered nurse and childcare expert{{cite news |title=LOUSE [sic] ZABRISKIE, 70, CHILD CARE EXPERT |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/14/archives/louse-zabriskie-70-child-care-expert.html |at=Page 21, column 5 |access-date=3 May 2023}}

• In Kermanshah Province, Iran, the magnitude 6.5 Farsinaj earthquake killed 1,119 people and injured 900.{{cite news |title=Hundreds Die in Iranian Quake; Many Homeless; Tremors Go On; QUAKE KILLS 600 IN WESTERN IRAN |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/14/archives/hundreds-die-in-iranian-quake-many-homeless-tremors-go-on-quake.html |at=Page 1, columns 3-4 |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.iiees.ac.ir/en/farsinaj-earthquake-of-13-december-1957-ms7-1/ |title=Farsinaj Earthquake of 13 December 1957, Ms7.1 |publisher=International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Born: Steve Buscemi, American actor; in Brooklyn, New York City{{cite news |title=Famous birthdays for Dec. 13: Steve Buscemi, Jamie Foxx |author=((UPI Staff)) |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2021/12/13/Famous-birthdays-for-Dec-13-Steve-Buscemi-Jamie-Foxx/7841639324644/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220131222750/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2021/12/13/Famous-birthdays-for-Dec-13-Steve-Buscemi-Jamie-Foxx/7841639324644/ |archive-date=31 January 2022 |date=13 December 2021 |publisher=United Press International, Inc. |department=Entertainment News |access-date=29 April 2023}}{{cite magazine |title=Steve Buscemi Biography |url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/steve-buscemi/bio/3000397220/ |magazine=TV Guide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601223148/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/steve-buscemi/bio/3000397220/ |archive-date=1 June 2022 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Died:
• Michael Sadleir, 68, English novelist and publisher{{cite news |title=MICHAEL SADLEIR, AUTHOR, 68, DEAD; Bibliophile and Publisher Wrote 'Fanny by Gaslight' and Study of Trollope |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/16/archives/michael-sadleir-author-68-dead-bibliophile-and-publisher-wrote.html |at=Page 29, column 1 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Harcourt Williams, 77, English actor and director{{cite news |title=HARCOURT WILLIAMS, ACTOR, PRODUCER, 77 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 December 1957 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/14/archives/harcourt-williams-actor-producer-77.html |at=Page 21, column 2 |access-date=3 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba4c23619 |title=Harcourt Williams |publisher=British Film Institute |archive-date=11 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711144427/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2ba4c23619 |access-date=2 May 2023}}

• During a Scottish Football League match between Clyde F.C. and Celtic F.C. at Shawfield Stadium in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, a section of boundary wall collapsed, injuring 50 people, mostly children, and killing a 9-year-old boy.{{cite news |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14162325.When_tragedy_struck_at_the_football/ |last=Smith |first=Ken |title=When tragedy struck at the football |newspaper=The Herald |department=Opinion |location=Glasgow |date=22 December 2015 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• The original production of the Broadway musical The Most Happy Fella by Frank Loesser closed after 676 performances.{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/the-most-happy-fella-2415 |title=The Most Happy Fella - Broadway Musical - Original |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Mario Baccini, Italian politician; in Rome{{cite web |url=https://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00000128.htm |title=Scheda di attività di Mario BACCINI - XV Legislatura |trans-title=Activity sheet of Mario BACCINI - XV Legislature |website=Senato della Repubblica |language=it |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Patrick Deville, French writer; in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, Loire-Atlantique, France{{cite news |newspaper=Le Monde |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2012/11/05/patrick-deville-couronne-par-le-femina-pour-peste-cholera_1785838_3260.html |title=Patrick Deville, couronné par le Femina pour "Peste & Choléra" |trans-title=Patrick Deville, crowned by the Femina for "Peste & Choléra" |author=((Le Monde with AFP)) |department=Le Monde des Livres |date=5 November 2012 |language=fr |access-date=3 May 2023}}

• Abdul-Wahab Mirjan became the new Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Iraq
• The Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles, signed at the United Nations by members on June 4, 1954, entered into force, allowing foreign tourists and other visitors to bring their own road vehicle without having to pay a duty tax.{{cite web |url=https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=XI-A-8&chapter=11&clang=_en |title=Customs Convention on the Temporary Importation of Private Road Vehicles |work=United Nations Treaty Collection}}
• Born:
• Jan Bosschaert, Belgian comics artist, painter and illustrator; in Borgerhout, Flanders{{cite encyclopedia |title=Jan Bosschaert |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/b/bosschaert.htm |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |publisher=Lambiek |date=6 October 2022 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Chō (born Shigeru Nagashima), Japanese actor and narrator; in Kōnosu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Mario Marois, Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman; in L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec{{cite web |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/m/maroima01.html |title=Mario Marois Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Salary, Title |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Mike McAlary, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (d. 1998, colon cancer){{cite news |last=Firestone |first=David |page=C6 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/26/nyregion/mike-mcalary-41-columnist-with-swagger-to-match-city-s.html |title=Mike McAlary, 41, Columnist With Swagger to Match City's |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 December 1998 |access-date=8 May 2023}}{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15023996b |title=Notice de personne "McAlary, Mike (1957-1998)" |trans-title=Person notice "McAlary, Mike (1957-1998)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=23 May 2006 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress; in Los Angeles, California{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
• Died:
• Alfonso Bedoya, 53, Mexican actor, died of a heart attack.{{cite news|title=none |newspaper=San Antonio Light |date=17 December 1957 |page=20}}
• Leonidas C. Dyer, 86, American military officer, attorney and civil rights activist, member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri, infirmities{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/17/archives/lc-dyer-86-dies-excongressman-missouri-republican-author-of.html |title=L.C. DYER, 86, DIES; EX-CONGRESSMAN; Missouri Republican, Author of Auto-Theft Law, Served in House 22 Years |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=17 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 1 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=DYER, Leonidas Carstarphen 1871 – 1957 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/D000591 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=4 May 2023}}

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• The prototype of the Antonov An-12 transport aircraft made its first flight.{{cite web |url=http://www.antonov.com/aircraft/antonov-gliders-and-airplanes/an-12?lang=en |title=Antonov official website |language=en |access-date=15 August 2009 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://timetravel.mementoweb.org/memento/2011/http://www.antonov.com/aircraft/antonov-gliders-and-airplanes/an-12?lang=en |archive-date=23 January 2018}}
• A summit meeting of the NATO heads of government began in Paris, France, and would conclude on December 19.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/16/archives/nato-talks-open-today-with-pact-on-arms-in-doubt-spaak-envisages.html |last=Callender |first=Harold |author-link=Bessie Callender#Biography |title=NATO TALKS OPEN TODAY, WITH PACT ON ARMS IN DOUBT; Spaak Envisages Accord on Missiles but U.S. Looks for Few Decisions PEACE TO BE STRESSED Eisenhower Sees Gaillard --French Hopes Raised on North Africa Issue An Emphasis on Peace EISENHOWER SEES FRANCE'S PREMIER French Hopes About North African Issues Reported Bolstered by Talk French Hopes Raised New Impetus Envisaged |newspaper=The New York Times |date=16 December 1957 |at=Page 1, column 1 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=NATO Update - 1957 |url=https://www.nato.int/docu/update/50-59/1957e.htm |date=6 November 2001 |website=NATO |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Born: Nikolai Kuimov, Russian test pilot, Hero of the Russian Federation; in Podolsk, Moscow Oblast, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (d. 2021, plane crash){{cite web |url=https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=13208 |title=Куимов Николай Дмитриевич |trans-title=Kuimov Nikolai Dimitriyevich |website=warheroes.ru |language=ru |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Heinrich Hoffmann, 72, official photographer of Adolf Hitler{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/18/archives/hoffmann-friend-of-hitler-was-72-personal-photographer-of-fuehrer.html |title=HOFFMANN, FRIEND OF HITLER, WAS 72; Personal Photographer of Fuehrer Dies--Sentenced to 5 Years as a Nazi Eva Braun's Boss |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=18 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 3 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Hoffmann, Heinrich (1885-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Hoffmann, Heinrich (1885-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12484003s |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=21 March 2016 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Will Morrissey, 70, American actor and theatrical producer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/18/archives/will-morrissey-72-actor-producer.html |title=WILL MORRISSEY, 72, ACTOR, PRODUCER |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 1 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/will-morrissey-9079 |title=Will Morrissey - Broadway Cast & Staff |work=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=4 May 2023}}
• Kirby Page, 67, American Disciples of Christ minister, author and peace activist, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/18/archives/kirby-page-dies-peace-evangelist-author-of-20-books-was-pastor.html |title=KIRBY PAGE DIES; PEACE EVANGELIST; Author of 20 Books Was Pastor, Editor, Y.M.C.A. Aide--Lectured Widely Asked Property Change |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 December 1957 |at=Page 35, column 1 |access-date=7 October 2024}}{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3UtqrX56rgC&dq=kirby+page+evangelist&pg=PA588 |title=Page, Kirby (1890-1957) |last=Watts |first=Craig M. |editor1-last=Foster |editor1-first=Douglas A. |editor1-link=Douglas A. Foster |editor2-last=Blowers |editor2-first=Paul M. |editor3-last=Dunnavant |editor3-first=Anthony L. |editor4-last=Williams |editor4-first=D. Newell |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cambridge, U.K. |publisher=William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |year=2004 |page=588 |isbn=0-8028-3898-7 |access-date=4 May 2023 |via=Google Books}}

• The film Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Billy Wilder and based on the play of the same name by Agatha Christie, opened in Los Angeles. It would go into general release in February 1958.{{cite web |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/52448 |title=Witness for the Prosecution |work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=9 May 2023}}
• Born: Doug Parker, Canadian voice actor and voice director{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Died:
• Fritz Ostermueller, 50, American Major League Baseball pitcher, died of colon cancer.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/18/archives/fritz-ostermueller-pitcher-dies-of-50-lefthander-spent-14-years-in.html |title=Fritz Ostermueller, Pitcher, Dies of [sic] 50; Lefthander Spent 14 Years in the Majors; Pitched Until He Was 41 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=18 December 1957 |at=Page 35, columns 2-3 |access-date=7 October 2024}}{{cite web |last=Green |first=John F. |title=Fritz Ostermueller |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/fritz-ostermueller/ |publisher=Society for American Baseball Research |access-date=4 May 2023}}
• Dorothy L. Sayers, 64, British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist, died of coronary thrombosis.{{cite news |title=Dorothy Sayers, Author, Dies at 64 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/home/sayers-obit.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=19 December 1957 |access-date=4 May 2023}}

• A tornado outbreak sequence began in Illinois, Missouri and Indiana.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/19/archives/tornadoes-kill-8-in-midwest-area-storms-rip-southern-illinois.html |title=TORNADOES KILL 8 IN MIDWEST AREA; Storms Rip Southern Illinois, Missouri and Indiana-- At Least 80 Injured Three Hit Vicinity Move Into Indiana |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=UP |date=19 December 1957 |at=Page 63, columns 1-2 |access-date=4 May 2023}} The sequence would continue until December 20, affecting the Midwestern and Southern United States, causing 19 deaths, 291 injuries and $15,855,000 in damage.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/20/archives/2-die-in-arkansas-in-new-tornadoes-floods-hampercleanupjob-for.html |title=2 DIE IN ARKANSAS IN NEW TORNADOES; Floods Hamper Clean-Up Job for Southern Illinois-- Snow Due in Midwest |newspaper=The New York Times |date=20 December 1957 |at=Page 56, column 3 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Search Results |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/listevents.jsp?eventType=%28C%29+Tornado&beginDate_mm=12&beginDate_dd=18&beginDate_yyyy=1957&endDate_mm=12&endDate_dd=20&endDate_yyyy=1957&hailfilter=0.00&tornfilter=0&windfilter=000&sort=DT&submitbutton=Search&statefips=-999%2CALL |work=Storm Events Database |publisher=National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date=4 May 2023}} This included a violent F5 tornado, which wiped out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.{{cite journal |author1=United States Weather Bureau |author1-link=United States Weather Bureau |first2=F. W. (U.S. Weather Bureau) |last2=Reichelderfer |first3=Sinclair (Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce) |last3=Weeks |author3-link=Sinclair Weeks |title=Climatological Data National Summary December 1957 |journal=Climatological Data |date=1958 |volume=8 |issue=12 |page=527 |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-F34FBD0F-1D12-4032-8E41-3AF6B975E0EB.pdf |access-date=13 September 2023 |publisher=United States Department of Commerce |archive-date=13 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913171056/https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-F34FBD0F-1D12-4032-8E41-3AF6B975E0EB.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• A B-47 Stratojet bomber crashed on the grounds of the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, killing the plane's crew.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/19/archives/crew-dies-in-crash-of-jet-at-palomar.html |title=CREW DIES IN CRASH OF JET AT PALOMAR |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=19 December 1957 |at=Page 13, column 1 |access-date=4 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Camillo Castiglioni, 78, Italian-Austrian financier and banker, died of bronchial pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/25/archives/camillo-castiglioni-financier-is-dead-controlled-industries-in.html |title=Camillo Castiglioni, Financier, Is Dead; Controlled Industries in Central Europe |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 December 1957 |at=Page 31, columns 3-4 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite dictionary |last=Castronovo |first=Valerio |title=CASTIGLIONI, Camillo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/camillo-castiglioni_(Dizionario-Biografico) |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=22 |year=1979 |language=it |access-date=5 May 2023 |via=Treccani}}
• Jere Cooper, 64, member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/19/archives/jere-cooper-dead-a-leader-in-house-tennessee-democrat-was-ways-and.html |title=JERE COOPER DEAD; A LEADER IN HOUSE; Tennessee Democrat Was Ways and Means Chairman --First Elected in 1928 Worked From Age of 12 Originally Opposed T.V.A. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=19 December 1957 |at=Page 31, columns 1-2 |access-date=4 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=COOPER, Jere 1893 – 1957 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/C000755 |access-date=4 May 2023}}
• John D. Price, 65, United States Navy admiral and aviator{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/19/archives/admiral-john-dale-price-is-dead-at-65-made-first-night-landing-on.html |title=Admiral John Dale Price Is Dead at 65; Made First Night Landing on Carrier; Set Endurance Record |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=19 December 1957 |at=Page 31, columns 2-3 |access-date=4 May 2023}}
• James Marion West Jr., 54, Texas oil millionaire, died after a diabetic coma.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/19/archives/james-west-jr-texas-oilman54-houston-millionaire-known-as-silver.html |title=JAMES WEST JR., TEXAS OILMAN, 54; Houston Millionaire Known as 'Silver Dollar' Dies-- Had Practiced Law |newspaper=The New York Times |date=19 December 1957 |at=Page 31, columns 3-4 |access-date=4 May 2023}}

• The successful musical The Music Man, with words and music by Meredith Willson, premiered on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre for the first of 1,375 performances.{{Cite book |last=Filichia |first=Peter |title=Let's Put on a Musical!: How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community, or Professional Theater |date=2004-05-01 |publisher=Watson-Guptill Publications |isbn=978-0823088171}} The original cast included Robert Preston as Harold Hill and Barbara Cook as Marian Paroo.
• The first non-stop airline flight from London to Canada was made, as an 18 Bristol Britannia 312 arrived in Canada.[http://www.britishairways.com/travel/history-1950-1959/public/en_gb "Explore our past: 1950 – 1959."] British Airways. Retrieved: 19 October 2010.
• In the U.S., the first successful test of the Phase II model of the PGM-17 Thor ballistic missile was made.
• Born:
• Cyril Collard, French author, filmmaker, musician and actor; in Paris (d. 1993, AIDS-related illness){{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12056931p |title=Notice de personne "Collard, Cyril (1957-1993)" |trans-title=Person notice "Collard, Cyril (1957-1993)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=18 February 2004 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Michael E. Fossum, American engineer and astronaut; in Sioux Falls, South Dakota{{cite web |title=Astronaut Biography Michael E. Fossum |url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/fossum.pdf |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration |date=January 2017 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Kevin McHale, American basketball player; in Hibbing, Minnesota{{cite web |title=Kevin McHale Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft Status and more |url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mchalke01.html |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Tracy Pew, Australian musician; in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (d. 1986, brain haemorrhage){{cite encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtpkCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA214 |title=Tracy Pew |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches |last=Simmonds |first=Jeremy |location=Chicago, Illinois |publisher=Chicago Review Press |edition=Second |year=2012 |pages=214–215 |isbn=978-1-61374-478-9 |access-date=30 April 2023 |via=Google Books}}
• Died:
• John F. Hunter, 61, American lawyer and soldier, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/21/archives/john-f-hunter-dead-former-ohio-representative-practiced-law-in.html |title=JOHN F. HUNTER DEAD; Former Ohio Representative Practiced Law in Capital |newspaper=The New York Times |date=21 December 1957 |at=Page 18, column 5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/H000983 |title=HUNTER, John Feeney 1896 – 1957 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Frans August Larson, 87, Swedish missionary and explorer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/21/archives/fa-larsen-duke-of-mongoliadies-former-missionary-there-led.html |title=F.A. LARSEN [sic], 'DUKE OF MONGOLIA,' DIES; Former Missionary There Led Expeditions for Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews. |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=21 December 1957 |at=Page 18, column 6 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• John Van Druten, 56, English-American playwright and theatre director{{cite news |last=Ebersole |first=Douglas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/20/archives/john-van-druten-playwright-dead-author-of-voice-of-turtle-and-i.html |title=JOHN VAN DRUTEN, PLAYWRIGHT, DEAD; Author of 'Voice of Turtle' and 'I Remember Mama'-- Directed His Own Works WROTE FILM SCENARIOS Former Law Lecturer, 56, Turned Out 30 Plays in Search of Life's Answer Always in Search Directed Own Plays Kept Asking Questions |newspaper=The New York Times |date=20 December 1957 |at=Page 27, columns 1-2 |access-date=4 May 2023}}

• American lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner married Parisian lawyer Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo in Manhattan. This was Lerner's fourth marriage and di Borgo's second.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/27/archives/alan-jay-lerner-weds-lawyer.html |title=Alan Jay Lerner Weds Lawyer |newspaper=The New York Times |date=27 December 1957 |at=Page 23, column 2 |quote=Alan Jay Lerner, author of the book and lyrics for "My Fair Lady," and Micheline Muselli Pozzo Di Borgo, a lawyer, were married here last Friday, it was announced yesterday. |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite magazine |title=Milestones, Jan. 6, 1958 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C868138%2C00.html |magazine=TIME |date=6 January 1958 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724012227/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,868138,00.html |archive-date=24 July 2010 |access-date=5 May 2023}} The couple would divorce in 1965.
• The Boeing 707 airliner flew for the first time.{{cite web |url=http://www.aviation-history.com/boeing/707.html |title=Boeing 707 |website=The Aviation History Online Museum |date=15 October 2013 |publisher=Larry Dwyer |access-date=30 April 2023}}{{Self-published inline|date=April 2023}}
• American singer Elvis Presley received his draft notice.{{cite news |url=https://tucson.com/dec-21-1957-elvis-presley-is-drafted/article_99235784-2c09-11ea-b20a-9b6b07754e99.html |title=Draft Calls Elvis, Studio Worried |date=21 December 1957 |newspaper=The Arizona Daily Star |agency=AP |at=Page 1, columns 4-5 |access-date=30 April 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/21/archives/presley-to-be-drafted-reports-for-induction-jan-20-paramount-seeks.html |title=PRESLEY TO BE DRAFTED; Reports for Induction Jan. 20 --Paramount Seeks Delay |newspaper=The New York Times |date=21 December 1957 |at=Page 22, column 1 |access-date=5 May 2023}} He would be sworn in to the United States Army on March 24, 1958.
• Born:
• Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder; in Chelsea, London (d. 2007){{cite news |title=Stephen Bicknell: Organ designer and scholar |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2976647.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015045800/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2976647.ece |archive-date=15 October 2007 |last=Shenton |first=Kenneth |newspaper=The Independent |department=Obituaries |date=19 September 2007 |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Billy Bragg, British singer; in Barking, Essex, England{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13933647s |title=Notice de personne "Bragg, Billy (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Bragg, Billy (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=24 November 2020 |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Pat Fish (born Patrick Huntrods), English musician; in London (d. 2021, heart attack){{cite journal |title=Obituaries |journal=University of Oxford Gazette |date=21 October 2021 |volume=152 |issue=5326 |page=77}}
• Joyce Hyser, American actress; in New York City{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb150052505 |title=Notice de personne "Hyser, Joyce (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Hyser, Joyce (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=1 December 2005 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Arturs Maskats, Latvian composer; in Valmiera, Latvia{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb155357145 |title=Notice de personne "Maskats, Artūrs (1957-....)" |trans-title=Person notice "Maskats, Artūrs (1957-....)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=30 September 2008 |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Bruce Stanton, Canadian politician; in Orillia, Ontario{{cite web |url=https://www.lipad.ca/members/record/02c2cb20-f27d-46a5-8e78-ab4b405bf07b/4/ |title=Bruce STANTON |department=Members of the Canadian House of Commons |website=Lipad |publisher=University of Toronto |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Anna Vissi, Greek singer; in Pyla, Larnaca District, Cyprus{{cite web |url=https://www.zimbio.com/Anna+Vissi |title=Anna Vissi |website=Zimbio |publisher=Livingly Media, Inc. |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Mike Watt, American bassist, vocalist and songwriter; in Portsmouth, Virginia{{cite web |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/mike_watt_on_what |title=Mike Watt on What's Watt |last=Sutherland |first=Sam |date=24 March 2007 |website=Exclaim! |access-date=30 April 2023}}
• Died: Walter Page, 57, American jazz instrumentalist and bandleader, died of a kidney ailment and pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/21/archives/walter-page-jazz-bass-player-dead-had-led-rhythm-section-in-basies.html |title=Walter Page, Jazz Bass Player, Dead; Had Led Rhythm Section in Basie's Band |newspaper=The New York Times |date=21 December 1957 |at=Page 18, columns 3-4 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite magazine |title=The Week's Census |magazine=Jet |date=9 January 1958 |quote=Walter Page, 57, one of the greatest jazz bass players, who helped Count Basie lead an invasion of Kansas City jazz to New York in 1935; of kidney ailment and pneumonia; at Bellevue Hospital in New York City.}}{{cite encyclopedia |last=Lorre |first=Sean |url=http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/page-walter-sylvester |archive-date=16 January 2016 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians |title=Page, Walter (Sylvester) |via=Jazz.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116011824/http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/page-walter-sylvester |access-date=30 April 2023}}

• In association football, Charlton Athletic F.C. and Huddersfield Town A.F.C. played a classic match at Charlton Athletic's home ground, The Valley, in Charlton, London. Charlton Athletic won, 7–6, in what The Observer would describe in 2001 as one of the 10 greatest comebacks in sports history.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/osm/story/0,,562527,00.html |last=Henderson |first=Jon |title=The 10 greatest comebacks of all time |date=7 October 2001 |newspaper=The Observer |access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Tom Henke, American Major League Baseball pitcher; in Kansas City, Missouri{{cite web |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/henketo01.shtml |title=Tom Henke Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Ray Romano, American actor and comedian; in Queens, New York City{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ray-romano/bio/170997/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150909160342/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ray-romano/bio/170997/ |title=Ray Romano Biography |magazine=TV Guide |archive-date=9 September 2015 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Died:
• Eric Coates, 71, English composer, died of a stroke.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/22/archives/eric-coates-dies-british-composer-writer-of-light-music-was-creator.html |title=ERIC COATES DIES; BRITISH COMPOSER; Writer of Light Music Was Creator of 'London Suite' and 'Sleepy Lagoon' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 December 1957 |at=Page 41, columns 1-2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |last=Payne |first=Michael |title=Life and Music of Eric Coates |year=2016 |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-138-27149-4 |page=218}}
• Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr., 77, United States federal judge{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/22/archives/alfred-c-coxe-77-exjudge-is-dead-member-of-federal-court-21-years.html |title=ALFRED C. COXE, 77, EX-JUDGE, IS DEAD; Member of Federal Court 21 Years Presided at Trials of Browder and Vause |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=22 December 1957 |at=Page 40, columns 3-4 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1379596 |title=Coxe, Alfred Conkling, Jr. |website=Federal Judicial Center |department=Judges |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Sir George Lynskey, 69, English judge, died of coronary thrombosis.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/22/archives/sir-george-lynskey-high-court-justice.html |title=SIR GEORGE LYNSKEY, HIGH COURT JUSTICE |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 December 1957 |at=Page 41, column 2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}

• The Scottish freighter SS Narva sank in the North Sea while going to the aid of a collier in distress. All 28 crewmen aboard the Narva were lost. The crew of the collier were rescued.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/23/archives/ship-with-28-lost-in-north-sea-gale-scottish-freighter-vanishes-on.html |title=SHIP WITH 28 LOST IN NORTH SEA GALE; Scottish Freighter Vanishes on Way to Aid Collier-- Other Crew Saved |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 December 1957 |at=Page 2, columns 3-4 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/24/archives/seamen-still-missing-none-of-28-on-vessel-lost-in-north-sea-are.html |title=SEAMEN STILL MISSING; None of 28 on Vessel Lost in North Sea Are Found |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 December 1957 |at=Page 3, column 8 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Born: Carole James, Canadian politician; in Dukinfield, England{{cite magazine |magazine=Shared Vision |url=http://www.shared-vision.com/2005/sv1803/carolejames1803.html |title=A Conversation With Carole James |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508124204/http://www.shared-vision.com/2005/sv1803/carolejames1803.html |archive-date=8 May 2006 |date=March 2005 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Lucille May Grace, 57, American politician{{cite news |agency=UP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/23/archives/lucille-grace-dead-candidate-for-governor-in-louisiana-in-1952-was.html |title=LUCILLE GRACE DEAD; Candidate for Governor in Louisiana in 1952 Was 57 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 December 1957 |at=Page 22, column 5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-g/ |title=GRACE, Lucille Mae |dictionary=Dictionary of Louisiana Biography |publisher=Louisiana Historical Association |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Ray Sprigle (born Martin Raymond Sprigle), 71, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, died of injuries from a traffic collision.{{cite news |agency=UP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/23/archives/reporter-who-exposed-black-as-klansman-dies-after-crash-ray-sprigle.html |title=Reporter Who Exposed Black As Klansman Dies After Crash; Ray Sprigle Succumbs at 71 After Auto Accident--Won Pulitzer Prize for Series |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 December 1957 |at=Page 13, columns 4-5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofpulitze00bren |title=Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |last1=Brennan |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Clarage |first2=Elizabeth C. |location=Phoenix, Arizona |publisher=The Oryx Press |year=1999 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofpulitze00bren/page/560 560-561] |isbn=1-57356-111-8 |access-date=5 May 2023 |via=Internet Archive}}
• Tom Sullivan, 38, American professional light heavyweight boxer, was shot to death in Boston.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/23/archives/former-boxer-slain-tommy-sullivan-is-ambushed-and-shot-in-boston.html |title=FORMER BOXER SLAIN; Tommy Sullivan is Ambushed and Shot in Boston |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 December 1957 |at=Page S35, column 1 |access-date=5 May 2023}} His murder remains unsolved.
• Robert Zuppke, 78, German-born American football coach, writer and painter{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/23/archives/robert-c-zuppke-is-dead-at-78-exfootball-coach-at-illionis-mentor.html |title=Robert C. Zuppke Is Dead at 78; Ex-Football Coach at Illinois; Mentor Developed Host of Stars, Among Them Red Grange, in 29 Years There --Teams Won Seven Big Ten Titles |newspaper=The New York Times |date=23 December 1957 |at=Page 22, columns 1-2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Bob Zuppke (1951) |publisher=National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Inc. |url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1412 |department=Hall of Fame |access-date=5 May 2023}}

• The crash of a U.S. Navy radar plane killed 19 of the 23 crew when it ditched off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The Lockheed WV-2 Warning Star had been on a routine training patrol along the Pacific Ocean extension of the Distant Early Warning Line."U.S. Radar Plane Explodes, 4 of 23 Rescued from Sea", The Atlanta Journal, December 25, 1957, p.1
• Flames spread by winds in Rankin, Pennsylvania, destroyed or damaged 25 buildings in a three-block area.{{cite news |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/24/archives/25-buildings-burned-fire-near-pittsburgh-hits-shops-homes-and.html |title=25 BUILDINGS BURNED; Fire Near Pittsburgh Hits Shops, Homes and Schools |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 December 1957 |at=Page 13, column 8 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• The United States Air Force ordered the North American B-70 Valkyrie to serve as the planned replacement for the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/24/archives/2000-mph-jet-bomber-is-ordered-by-air-force-triple-present-speeds.html |last=Finney |first=John W. |title=2,000 M.P.H. Jet Bomber Is Ordered by Air Force; Triple Present Speeds |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 December 1957 |at=Page 1, columns 6-7 |access-date=5 May 2023}} The B-70 would be rendered outmoded by the introduction of intercontinental ballistic missiles, and only two were ever built. {{Asof|2023}}, the B-52 remains in service with the USAF.
• Born:
• Alan Brown, English cricketer; in Darwen, Lancashire{{cite web |title=Alan Brown Profile - Cricket Player England {{!}} Stats, Records, Video |website=ESPNcricinfo |publisher=ESPN Sports Media Ltd. |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/alan-brown-10043 |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Mike Brown, American professional ice hockey defenceman; in Detroit, Michigan{{cite web |url=https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=8184 |title=Mike Brown (b.1957) Hockey Stats and Profile |publisher=HockeyDB |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Dod Orsborne, 55, British sailor, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |title=Orsborne, of Girl Pat, Dead |newspaper=The Manchester Guardian |date=24 December 1957 |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|480176649}}}} {{subscription required}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/24/archives/george-orsborne-adventurer-dies-former-royal-navy-captain-was-a.html |title=GEORGE ORSBORNE, ADVENTURER, DIES; Former Royal Navy Captain Was a Writer--Sailed the Atlantic in a Ketch |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=24 December 1957 |at=Page 15, column 4 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Michael Schaap, 83, American businessman and politician, died in a fall from a 12th-floor suite at the Hotel Chatham in Manhattan.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/24/archives/exretailer-dies-in-12story-fall-michael-schaap-83-was-a-head-of.html |title=EX-RETAILER DIES IN 12-STORY FALL; Michael Schaap, 83, Was a Head of Bloomingdale's and a Philanthropist |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 December 1957 |at=Page 23, columns 1-4 |access-date=5 May 2023}}

• The explosion and sinking of the Brazilian freighter Cisne Branco ("White Swan"), a yacht that had been converted to coastal service, killed all 30 people aboard. According to the Brazilian news agency Asapress, Cisne Branco had been transporting 10 students and their teacher, along with its crew of six and other passengers, when a spark set off a cargo of high powered aviation gasoline being transported from San Salvador to Itacare.{{cite news |title=Ship Explodes, Sinks; 30 Die |agency=UP |newspaper=Buffalo Courier-Express |location=Buffalo, New York |date=December 25, 1957 |page=1}}{{cite news |title=Ship With Thirty on Board Sinks Off Brazilian Coast; Seventeen Bodies Recovered— Ten Vacationing Students and One Teacher Among Victims of Tragedy |agency=UPI |newspaper=The Americas Daily |location=Miami Springs, Florida |date=December 27, 1957 |page=1}}
• Born: Hamid Karzai, 4th President of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014; in Karz, Kandahar, Kingdom of Afghanistan{{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/20/afghanistan |department=The Observer profile |date=19 July 2008 |access-date=29 April 2023 |last=Burke |first=Jason |author-link=Jason Burke |title=Hard man in a hard country |archive-date=2 October 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002173328/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/20/afghanistan?gusrc=rss&feed=global}}
• Died:
• Arturo Barea, 60, Spanish writer, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/28/archives/arturo-barea-60-a-spanish-writer-author-of-the-forging-of-a-rebel.html |title=ARTURO BAREA, 60, A SPANISH WRITER; Author of 'The Forging of a Rebel' Is Dead--Broadcast for Loyalists During War |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 December 1957 |at=Page 13, columns 4-5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Arturo Barea [1897–1957] |url=http://www.hispanicexile.bham.ac.uk/people/46 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030246/http://www.hispanicexile.bham.ac.uk/people/46 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |website=Centre for the Study of Hispanic Exile |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Stanley Link, 63, American comics artist (Tiny Tim){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/25/archives/stanley-j-link-63-long-a-cartoonist.html |title=STANLEY J. LINK, 63, LONG A CARTOONIST |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 December 1957 |at=Page 31, column 3 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/l/link-stanley.htm |last1=Knudde |first1=Kjell |last2=Schuddeboom |first2=Bas |title=Stanley J. Link |encyclopedia=Lambiek Comiclopedia |date=14 March 2021 |publisher=Lambiek |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Shūmei Ōkawa, 71, Japanese nationalist and Pan-Asianist writer, died of a heart ailment.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/25/archives/shumei-okawa-71-militarist-dead-war-crimes-defendant-was-freed.html |title=SHUMEI OKAWA, 71, MILITARIST, DEAD; War Crimes Defendant Was Freed Because of Insanity --Plotted Mukden Incident A Top Propagandist Sentenced in Plot |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 December 1957 |at=Page 32, columns 1-2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Norma Talmadge, 63, American actress, died of pneumonia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/25/archives/norma-talmadge-film-star-dead-noted-actress-of-the-silent-screen.html |title=NORMA TALMADGE, FILM STAR, DEAD; Noted Actress of the Silent Screen, 1911-30--Made Her Movie Debut at 14 Appeared in Scores of Films Her First Picture Founded Own Concern |newspaper=The New York Times |date=25 December 1957 |at=Page 31, columns 1-3 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Talmadge, Norma (1894-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Talmadge, Norma (1894-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14701519z |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=9 July 2021 |access-date=29 April 2023}}

• Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Christmas Message was televised for the first time. The Queen broadcast her message from the Long Library at Sandringham House, Norfolk.{{cite web |url=https://www.royal.uk/christmas-broadcast-1957 |title=Christmas Broadcast 1957 |website=The Royal Family |date=25 December 1957 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/26/archives/queen-in-tv-talk-links-worlds-ills-to-loss-of-ideals-queen-deplores.html |title=Queen, in TV Talk, Links World's Ills To Loss of Ideals; QUEEN DEPLORES A LOSS OF IDEALS |last=Love |first=Kennett |author-link=Kennett Love |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 December 1957 |at=Page 1, column 5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/27/archives/queens-broadcast-wins-praise.html |title=Queen's Broadcast Wins Praise |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=27 December 1957 |at=Page 4, columns 4-5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite news |title=The 'Deep Freeze' murder: Who killed Anne Noblett? |website=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42341980 |last=Shepka |first=Phil |department=Beds, Herts & Bucks |date=17 December 2017 |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 May 2023}}
• 20th Century Fox released the American war film The Enemy Below, based on a British novel of the same name by Denys Rayner and starring Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/26/archives/duel-to-the-death.html |title=Duel to the Death |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 December 1957 |at=Page 0, column 2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Shane MacGowan, Irish singer and songwriter (The Pogues); in Pembury, Kent, England{{cite web |title=About |website=Shane MacGowan |url=https://www.shanemacgowan.com/about/ |last=MacGowan |first=Siobhan |author-link=Siobhan MacGowan |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Bill Perry (born William Sanford Perry), American blues musician; in Goshen, New York (d. 2007, heart attack){{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-perry-mn0000087027/biography |last=Skelly |first=Richard |title=Bill Perry Biography, Songs, & Albums |publisher=AllMusic, Netaktion LLC |access-date=1 May 2023}}
• Died:
• Robert H. Gittins, 88, American lawyer and newspaper publisher, member of the United States House of Representatives from New York{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/26/archives/robert-gittins-lawyer-was-87-retired-corporation-expert-diesserved.html |title=ROBERT GITTINS, LAWYER, WAS 87; Retired Corporation Expert Dies--Served in House and in State Senate |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 December 1957 |at=Page 19, column 2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000228 |title=GITTINS, Robert Henry 1869 – 1957 |work=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Alfred Walton Hinds, 83, 17th Naval Governor of Guam{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
• William Murrill, 88, American mycologist{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/27/archives/william-murrill-botanist-is-dead-collector-of-75000-plant-specimens.html |title=WILLIAM MURRILL, BOTANIST, IS DEAD; Collector of 75,000 Plant Specimens Was Author of Many Books and Articles |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=27 December 1957 |at=Page 20, column 1 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite journal |title=William Alphonso Murrill (1869 - 1957) |journal=Mushroom: The Journal of Wild Mushrooming |url=https://www.mushroomthejournal.com/greatlakesdata/Authors/Murrill19.html |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., 87, American landscape architect and city planner{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/27/archives/frederick-law-olmsted-dies-landscape-architect-was-87-son-of.html |title=Frederick Law Olmsted Dies; Landscape Architect Was 87; Son of Designer of Central Park Aided Many Projects, Including Work in Capital |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=27 December 1957 |at=Page 20, columns 2-3 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite magazine |title=Milestones, Jan. 6, 1958 |magazine=TIME |date=6 January 1958 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C868138-2%2C00.html |archive-date=22 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322193106/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,868138-2,00.html |access-date=29 April 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.pvld.mobi/lh/?p=74 |title=The Lasting Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Is Everywhere |date=18 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206033006/http://www.pvld.mobi/lh/?p=74 |archive-date=6 December 2008 |website=Palos Verdes Library District |department=Peninsula Past Columns |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Charles Pathé, 93, French film pioneer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/27/archives/charles-pathe-film-pioneer-dies-founder-of-newsreel-known-by.html |title=CHARLES PATHE, FILM PIONEER, DIES; Founder of Newsreel Known by Crowing Rooster Was Expert in Distribution |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=27 December 1957 |at=Page 19, columns 1-2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Pathé, Charles (1863-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Pathé, Charles (1863-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12778025c.public |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=27 August 2013 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Stanley Vestal (born Walter Stanley Vestal, aka Walter S. Campbell), 70, American author and historian, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/26/archives/walter-campbell-author-professor.html |title=WALTER CAMPBELL, AUTHOR, PROFESSOR |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 December 1957 |at=Page 19, column 1 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Vestal, Stanley C. (1887-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Vestal, Stanley C. (1887-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb123741986 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=25 June 2012 |access-date=5 May 2023}}

• The 1957 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race began in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/27/archives/wild-seas-toss-racers-sloop-dismasted-in-680mile-sydneytohobart.html |title=WILD SEAS TOSS RACERS; Sloop Dismasted in 680-Mile Sydney-to-Hobart Race |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=27 December 1957 |at=Page 17, column 2 |access-date=5 May 2023}} It would conclude on January 3, 1958.
• Born: Mike South, American pornographic actor, director and gossip columnist; in Atlanta, Georgia{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Died: Angelo Motta, 67, Italian entrepreneur, died of a heart attack.{{cite dictionary |last=Colli |first=Andrea |author-link=Andrea Colli |title=MOTTA, Angelo |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/angelo-motta_(Dizionario-Biografico) |dictionary=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=77 |year=2012 |language=it |access-date=9 April 2023 |via=Treccani}}

• The eighth congress of the Black African Students Federation in France (FEANF) began; it would conclude on December 31. The congress called for Algerian independence, the establishment of a pan-African conference, the creation of an African youth festival, and political independence in Africa.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OisdhLIs6XwC&pg=PA526 |title=Le temps des marabouts: itinèraires et stratègies islamiques en Afrique occidentale française |trans-title=The time of the marabouts: Islamic itineraries and strategies in French West Africa |chapter=Le réformisme musulman au Sénégal (1956-1960) |editor1-last=Robinson |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Triaud |editor2-first=Jean-Louis |series=Hommes et Sociétés |publisher=Éditions Karthala |year=1997 |page=526 |language=fr |isbn=2-86537-729-6 |access-date=8 May 2023 |via=Google Books}}
• Master Sergeant Albert Pensiero of the Connecticut National Guard became the first person to receive the Connecticut Medal of Valor, in recognition of his heroism during Connecticut's severe floods in August 1955. Pensiero had rescued over 24 people from the floods in Unionville and brought urgently needed medical supplies by duck boat to Winsted.{{cite web |url=https://todayincthistory.com/2019/12/27/december-27-hero-of-the-1955-floods-receives-medal-of-valor-2/ |title=December 27: Hero of the 1955 Floods Receives Connecticut's Highest Honor. |website=Today in Connecticut History |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Born:
• José Cuevas, Mexican professional welterweight boxer; in Santo Tomás de los Plátanos, Mexico{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Ali Irsan, Jordanian-American convicted murdererhttps://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_info/irsanali.html
• Died:
• Alan Bridge, 66, American character actor{{cite web |author=((AllMovie)) |author-link=AllMovie |url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/al-bridge-vn15909847 |title=Al Bridge {{!}} Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |publisher=AllMovie, Netaktion LLC |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Mel Coogan, 61, American lightweight boxer{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/01/01/archives/mel-coogan.html |title=MEL COOGAN |newspaper=The New York Times |date=1 January 1958 |at=Page 25, column 2 |access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Louis Hasselmans, 79, French cellist and conductor{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/28/archives/hasselmans-dies-opera-conductor-leader-of-met-orchestra-192236-was.html |title=HASSELMANS DIES; OPERA CONDUCTOR; Leader of 'Met' Orchestra, 1922-36, Was a Specialist in French Repertoire |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 December 1957 |at=Page 14, columns 1-2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Hasselmans, Louis (1878-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Hasselmans, Louis (1878-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb148027982 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=10 March 2020 |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Eugene J. McGuinness, 68, American Roman Catholic bishop{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/28/archives/bishop-mguinness-68-head-of-catholic-dioces-in-oklahoma-9-years.html |title=BISHOP M'GUINNESS, 68; Head of Catholic Diocese in Oklahoma 9 Years Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 December 1957 |at=Page 13, column 5 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Bishop Eugene Joseph McGuinness |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmcgu.html |date=9 October 2022 |publisher=David M. Cheney |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{Self-published inline|date=May 2023}}
• Otto Nuschke, 74, German politician, Deputy Prime Minister of East Germany, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/28/archives/nuschke-is-dead-east-german-aide-deputy-premier-74-headed.html |title=NUSCHKE IS DEAD; EAST GERMAN AIDE; Deputy Premier, 74, Headed Christian Democrats but Cooperated With Reds |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 December 1957 |at=Page 13, columns 1-2 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Nuschke, Otto (1883-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Nuschke, Otto (1883-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb126528633 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=11 December 2000 |access-date=29 April 2023}}
• Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 63, Austrian-American diplomat and journalist, died of a heart attack at New York International Airport.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/28/archives/austria-adviser-dies-at-idlewild-dr-ranshofenwertheimer-attended-un.html |title=AUSTRIA ADVISER DIES AT IDLEWILD; Dr. Ranshofen-Wertheimer Attended U.N. Assembly-- Held Post With League |newspaper=The New York Times |date=28 December 1957 |at=Page 13, column 6 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Egon Ferdinand (1894-....)" |trans-title=Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Egon Ferdinand (1894-....)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12314501v |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=4 June 1993 |access-date=5 May 2023}}

• In the 1957 Gator Bowl, played at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, the Tennessee Volunteers defeated the Texas A&M Aggies by a score of 3–0.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/29/archives/tennessee-trips-texas-aggies-30-at-jacksonville-burklows-field-goal.html |title=TENNESSEE TRIPS TEXAS AGGIES, 3-0, AT JACKSONVILLE; Burklow's Field Goal From 7 Yard Line in Fourth Period Decides Game GORDON SETS UP MARKER Leads Vols' Drive From 50 in Gator Bowl Football Before 43,709 Fans |newspaper=The New York Times |date=29 December 1957 |at=Page S103, column 8 |access-date=5 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/1957-12-28-tennessee.html |title=Gator Bowl - Texas A&M vs. Tennessee Box Score, December 28, 1957 |department=College Football Scores |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=4 May 2023}} Bobby Gordon was named the game's MVP for Tennessee.{{cite web |access-date=4 May 2023 |url=http://www.taxslayerbowl.com/wp-content/uploads/boxscores/13thBoxScores.pdf |title=13th Edition December 27 [sic], 1957 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |website=taxslayerbowl.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905194803/http://www.taxslayerbowl.com/wp-content/uploads/boxscores/13thBoxScores.pdf}}
• American actors Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner married each other for the first time.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/29/archives/natalie-wood-and-wagner-wed.html |title=Natalie Wood and Wagner Wed |newspaper=The New York Times |date=29 December 1957 |at=Page 13, column 1 |access-date=5 May 2023}} They would divorce in 1962 and marry again in 1972.{{cite magazine |last=Wilkins |first=Barbara |title=Second Time's the Charm: Natalie Wood and Robert John Wagner Make Their Rerun Marriage Work |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0%2C%2C20067214%2C00.html |magazine=People |date=13 December 1976 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421161534/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067214,00.html |archive-date=21 April 2016 |volume=6 |issue=24 |access-date=1 May 2023}}
• Died: Hilda Vaughn, 59, American actress{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/30/archives/hilda-vaughn-actress-is-dead-at-60-last-appeared-here-in-the-river.html |title=Hilda Vaughn, Actress, Is Dead at 60; Last Appeared Here in 'The River Line' |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 December 1957 |at=Page 21, columns 2-3 |access-date=6 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/hilda-vaughn-63124 |title=Hilda Vaughn - Broadway Cast & Staff |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=9 April 2023}}

• In the 1957 DFB-Pokal final, played at the Rosenaustadion in Augsburg, West Germany, FC Bayern Munich defeated Fortuna Düsseldorf by a score of 1–0 to claim the 1956–57 DFB-Pokal association football title.{{cite web |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/report/dfb-pokal-1956-1957-finale-bayern-muenchen-fortuna-duesseldorf/ |title=Bayern München - Fortuna Düsseldorf 1:0 (DFB-Pokal 1956/1957, Final) |website=worldfootball.net |publisher=HEIM:SPIEL |access-date=7 May 2023}}
• In the 1957 NFL Championship Game, played at Briggs Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, the Detroit Lions defeated the Cleveland Browns by a score of 59–14.{{cite news |last=Berry |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Berry (journalist) |agency=U.P. |date=30 December 1957 |title=Lions Overcome Many Obstacles On Way to Title |at=Page 14, columns 7-8 |newspaper=Reading Eagle |access-date=4 May 2023 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Iy8zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BpoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1972%2C7530083 |via=Google News}} Browns quarterback Tommy O'Connell disclosed after the game that he had fractured his left leg on December 1.{{cite news |agency=AP |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/30/archives/oconnell-cleveland-backs-says-he-fractured-left-leg-on-dec-1.html |title=O'Connell, Cleveland Backs, Says He Fractured Left Leg on Dec. 1 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 December 1957 |at=Page S32, columns 3-4 |access-date=6 May 2023}} {{Asof|2023}} this remains the Detroit Lions' most recent appearance in an NFL championship game.
• Fred Combs, a 36-year-old American racing driver, was killed in a race crash at the Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, Arizona. He was ejected through the roof opening of his car when a pin in his seat belt buckle assembly failed.{{cite web |url=http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=7395 |title=Fred Combs |website=Motorsport Memorial |access-date=5 May 2023}}
• Born: Juan Perry, Peruvian politician{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Died:
• Reginald Croom-Johnson, 78, British barrister, judge, and Member of Parliament{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/31/archives/croomjohnson-dies-exbritish-high-court-judge-served-in-parliament.html |title=CROOM-JOHNSON DIES; Ex-British High Court Judge Served in Parliament |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 December 1957 |at=Page 16, column 4 |access-date=6 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-reginald-croom-johnson/index.html |title=Mr Reginald Croom-Johnson (Hansard) |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Ernie Henry, 31, American jazz saxophonist, died of a heroin overdose.{{cite book |title=Notice de personne "Henry, Ernie (1926-1957)" |trans-title=Person notice "Henry, Ernie (1926-1957)" |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138951458 |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=24 October 2014 |access-date=2 May 2023}}
• Arthur Johnson Mellott, 69, United States federal judge{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/30/archives/arthur-mellott-of-us-court-dies-chief-of-kansas-district-was.html |title=ARTHUR MELLOTT OF U.S. COURT DIES; Chief of Kansas District Was Appointed by Truman, His Former Law Student |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 December 1957 |at=Page 21, columns 2-3 |access-date=6 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Mellott, Arthur Johnson |url=https://www.fjc.gov/node/1384991 |website=Federal Judicial Center |department=Judges |access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Ezio Selva, 55, Italian Olympic diver, wire manufacturer and powerboat racer, was killed in a boat race crash in Miami Beach, Florida.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/30/archives/10000-see-craft-flip-at-100-mph-selva-dies-in-orange-bowl-race.html |title=10,000 SEE CRAFT FLIP AT 100 M.P.H.; Selva Dies in Orange Bowl Race Which He Had Said Would Be His Last |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=AP |date=30 December 1957 |at=Page S34, columns 1-4 |access-date=6 May 2023}}{{cite web |title=Ezio Selva |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/48581 |website=Olympedia |publisher=OlyMADMen |access-date=7 October 2024}}
• Sir Humphrey Walwyn, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCSI|KCMG|CB|DSO}}, 78, Royal Navy Vice-Admiral, Commission Governor of Newfoundland{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/30/archives/sir-humphrey-walwyn-exnewfoundland-governor-diesretired-admiral.html |title=SIR HUMPHREY WALWYN; Ex-Newfoundland Governor Dies--Retired Admiral |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 December 1957 |at=Page 21, column 2 |access-date=6 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/commission-humphrey-walwyn.php |title=Walwyn, Sir Humphrey Thomas (1879-1957) |date=August 2000 |publisher=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site |access-date=6 May 2023}}

• The government of Ghana declared a state of emergency in the city of Kumasi.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/31/archives/ghana-acts-in-crisis-declares-emergency-in-area-of-religious.html |title=GHANA ACTS IN CRISIS; Declares Emergency in Area of Religious Friction |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 December 1957 |at=Page 6, column 1 |access-date=8 May 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/sub-saharan-africa-region/ghana-1957-present/ |title=13. Ghana (1957-present) |publisher=University of Central Arkansas |department=Political Science |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Anne Noblett disappeared at the age of 17 while returning to her home in Marshalls Heath, Hertfordshire, after attending a dance. Her body would be discovered in woodland near Whitwell, Hertfordshire, on 31 January 1958. Noblett's murder remains unsolved.
• Future Watergate scandal figures John N. Mitchell and Martha Beall Jennings were married.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-was-martha-mitchell-watergate-scandal-gaslit-julia-roberts-1701837 |last=Mitchell |first=Molli |title=Who Was Martha Mitchell? How the Socialite Was Involved in Watergate |magazine=Newsweek |department=Culture |date=1 May 2022 |access-date=8 May 2023}}
• Jockey Raul Contreras died of injuries sustained in a two-horse pileup at the Agua Caliente Racetrack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/30/archives/spill-fatal-to-jockey-raul-contreras-dies-after-2horse-pileup-at.html |title=SPILL FATAL TO JOCKEY; Raul Contreras Dies After 2-Horse Pile-Up at Caliente |newspaper=The New York Times |date=30 December 1957 |at=Page S32, column 6 |access-date=6 May 2023}}{{cite news |url=https://www.drf.com/news/hovdey-roll-call-departed-serves-bleak-reminder |last=Hovdey |first=Jay |title=Hovdey: Roll call of departed serves as bleak reminder |date=23 March 2018 |website=Daily Racing Form |access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Born:
• Greg Hertz, American businessman and politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives; in Malta, Montana{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Matt Lauer, American newscaster; in New York City{{cite encyclopedia |last=((Britannica)) |first=((The Editors of Encyclopaedia)) |title=Matt Lauer |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=29 March 2023 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matt-Lauer |access-date=9 April 2023}}
• Died: James Wentworth Parker, 71, American mechanical engineer, died of a heart attack.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/12/31/archives/james-w-parker-utilities-aide-71-president-of-detroit-edison.html |title=JAMES W. PARKER, UTILITIES AIDE, 71; President of Detroit Edison Company, 1944-51, Is Dead ----Led Engineering Society |newspaper=The New York Times |date=31 December 1957 |at=Page 16, columns 3-4 |access-date=6 May 2023}}

• Oil began flowing from the Sahara Desert of French Algeria (at the time, politically part of France) as the {{convert|150|mi|adj=on}} underground pipeline opened between the oil fields at Hassi Messaoud for pumping to the railway junction at Touggourt, to be transported by tanker cars to the port of Phillipeville (now Skikda). French officials forecast that, by 1960, the Saharan oil fields would supply 10 million tons of oil per year for half of France's oil needs.{{cite news |title=Sahara's Oil Begins Flow to Railhead; Start of Future Supply for France |newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune |date=January 1, 1958 |page=1-16}} Following Algeria's independence in 1959, the North African republic would nationalize all French holdings on February 24, 1971.
• In Tokyo, Japan's Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama and South Korea's ambassador Kim Yu Taik signed three agreements in order to normalize relations between Japan and her former colony. The agreement cleared the way for the release of fishermen who had been imprisoned for violating claimed territorial waters, with 833 Japanese held in South Korea and 1,743 Koreans held in Japan.{{cite news |title=Japan, Korea Prisoner Exchange Due |newspaper=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=January 1, 1958 |page=15}}
• Died: Óscar Domínguez, 51, Spanish painter, committed suicide by sharp instrument.{{cite web |title=Oscar Dominguez Biography |publisher=The Annex Galleries |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/4166/Dominguez/Oscar |access-date=9 April 2023}}

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