Events Date 1957 August | History by KabAstro

Aug 1 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
Aug 1 Ex MLB outfielder Glen Gorbous throws a regulation baseball a record 136m (445' 10") in a game promotion

Baseball Record

Aug 1 Gil Hodges hits his 13th MLB career grand slam, a NL record and the last ever by a Brooklyn Dodgers player

Aug 1 US and Canada create North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
Aug 2 Lovell Telescope's first light (first astronomical image) by then the world's largest steerable telescope, at Jodrell Bank, England [1]
Aug 3 British offensive against imam Galeb Ben Ali of Oman

F1 World Champion

Aug 4 Argentine Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio clinches his record 5th F1 World Drivers Championship (4th consecutive) in winning the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring

Aug 5 "American Bandstand" premieres on network TV (ABC)
Aug 5 Comic strip "Andy Capp" makes its debut
Aug 5 WJZ-TV in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
Aug 7 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Aug 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 8 USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
Aug 9 24th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 22, All-Stars 12 (75,000)
Aug 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 11 Canada's first major commercial airline disaster when Maritime Central Airways DC-4 crashes in a thunderstorm near Québec City, killing all 79 aboard [1]

Harmonie der Welt

Aug 11 Paul Hindemith's opera "Harmonie der Welt" premieres in Munich, German

Aug 15 David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
Aug 15 USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter

Baseball History

Aug 17 Baseball player Richie Ashburn fouls and hits fan Alice Roth twice in the same game at bat playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, 1st hit breaks her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher

Aug 18 Amelia Wershoven sets record of female throwing a baseball (252'4½")
Aug 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 19 NY Giants board of directors vote 8-1 to move their baseball franchise to San Francisco in 1958 [1]
Aug 19 US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
Aug 20 "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
Aug 20 Chicago White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Washington Senators, 6-0
Aug 20 USAF balloon, manned by David Simons, breaks an altitude record at 102,000 ft (3,1089.6 m), over Minnesota and South Dakota
Aug 21 1st launching in Baikonur, Kazakhstan (R7 "Semiorka"-rocket)

Boxing Title Fight

Aug 22 Olympic heavyweight boxing champion Pete Rademacher becomes first to contest the world title in his first professional bout; knocked out by Floyd Patterson in 6th round at Sicks' Stadium, Seattle

Aug 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 24 At age 17 future England soccer striker Jimmy Greaves scores on his First Division debut for Chelsea against Tottenham Hotspur in a 1–1 draw at White Hart Lane
Aug 25 Prince Suvanna Phuma forms government in LAOS, with Pathet Lao
Aug 26 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
Aug 27 Hickory Smoke wins Hambletonian Stakes
Aug 27 The Constitution of Malaysia comes into force
Aug 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Aug 28 US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill