Timeline September 1957

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• 1865 – 1957 Jean Sibelius Finnish national composer Finnish composer whose Finlandia, Violin Concerto and 7 symphonies made him a national hero and one of the defining voices of late Romanticism.
• 1872 – 1957 Haakon VII The People's King The Danish prince elected King of Norway in 1905; a symbol of resistance during WWII.
• 1905 – 1957 Haakon VII First modern King of Norway Haakon VII became king after Norway peacefully dissolved its union with Sweden in 1905.
• 1957 Chuck Berry releases Rock and Roll Music Top ten hit Later covered by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
• 1957 Sam Cooke releases You Send Me Number one His first pop single tops both charts.
• 1957 Little Rock Crisis Federal troops enforce school desegregation in Arkansas Nine Black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas were blocked by the state National Guard on Governor Orval Faubus's orders. President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to escort the students into the school, a major confrontation over Brown v. Board of Education.
• 1957 Wolfenden Report published UK committee recommends decriminalising homosexuality A British government committee chaired by John Wolfenden published a report recommending that homosexual acts between consenting adults in private no longer be a criminal offence. It took a decade for the recommendation to become law in England and Wales.
• 1957 On the Road published Jack Kerouac's novel defines the Beat Generation Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was published by Viking Press, becoming a defining text of the Beat Generation. Written in a spontaneous, semi-autobiographical style, it influenced countercultural movements for decades afterward.
• 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 signed First federal civil rights legislation since Reconstruction President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, creating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and establishing federal protection for voting rights. It was the first civil rights law passed by the US Congress since 1875.
• 1957 John Coltrane records Blue Train Blue Note His one album for Blue Note.
• 1957 Became Crown Prince His father acceded to the throne as King Olav V following the death of King Haakon VII. Harald became Crown Prince at the age of 20.
• 1957 – present Nick Cave Australian singer-songwriter, author, screenwriter and composer Nick Cave is an Australian musician, writer and composer best known as the frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, one of the most influential and enduring bands in alternative rock. Emerging from the confrontational post-punk of The Birthday Party in the late 1970s, Cave built a decades-long career defined by literary, often gothic songwriting that draws on religion, violence, love and grief. Beyond music he has published novels, screenplays and a memoir, and become known for direct correspondence with fans through his website The Red Hand Files. His work took a profoundly personal turn following the deaths of his sons Arthur in 2015 and Jethro in 2022, reshaping the emotional register of his later albums.
• 1957 Nick Cave Is Born Born in Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia Nicholas Edward Cave is born on 22 September 1957 in the small town of Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, the third of four children of Colin Cave, an English teacher, and Dawn Cave, a school librarian. The family later moves to the regional city of Wangaratta, where Cave is raised amid a household steeped in literature and classical music. His early exposure to his father's love of novelists such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov leaves a lasting imprint on the literary sensibility of his later songwriting.
• 1957 Buddy Holly's That'll Be the Day reaches number one With the Crickets Number one in the US.
• 1957 Dwight D. Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock He orders the 101st Airborne to protect nine Black students integrating Central High School.
• 1957 West Side Story premieres on Broadway Bernstein and Sondheim musical reimagines Romeo and Juliet The musical West Side Story, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. Its story of rival street gangs in Manhattan became one of the most influential works in American musical theatre.