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| 1957 |
| | | The success of the USSR in launching Sputnik prompts the establishment of NASA in the USA | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins and Stephen Sondheim create the Broadway musical West Side Story | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal wins the Jury Prize at Cannes | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Christian Dior dies and is followed by Yves St Laurent as head designer at the famous fashion house | |
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| 1957 |
| | | German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen uses three separate orchestras to achieve acoustic space in Gruppen | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Boris Pasternak's only novel, Doctor Zhivago, is first published in an Italian translation | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Oscar Niemeyer is appointed chief architect for his country's new capital, Brasilia | |
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| 1957 |
| | | The Russian spacecraft Sputnik II puts into space a living creature, the dog Laika | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Latvian-Canadian dancer Ludmilla Chiriaeff founds the Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Abdul Rahman Putra becomes the first prime minister of independent Malaya | |
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