4th » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
6th » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan Africa called Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
8th » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
8th » The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the United States Congress known as U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
8th » Ghana joins the United Nations.
9th » A Moment magnitude scale or magnitude 1957 Andreanof Islands earthquake called 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
13th » Cuban student revolutionaries storm the Museum of the Revolution (Cuba) named presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of List of Presidents of Cuba named President Fulgencio Batista.
17th » A 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash or plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills President of the Philippines known as Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
25th » The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.
29th » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
31st » Upper Volta Territorial Assembly election, 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony French Upper Volta Upper Volta are held. After the elections Unified Democratic Party PDU and Voltaic Democratic Movement MDV form a government.