2nd » President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes Ngo Dinh Diem presidential visit to Australia called the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia.
4th » African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68) American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the Arkansas National Guard National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Roc
4th » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
5th » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
19th » First American underground Nuclear testing or nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).
22nd » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
24th » Camp Nou, the largest List of European stadiums by capacity or stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
24th » President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce Little Rock Nine or desegregation.
25th » Little Rock Central High School named Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is Racial integration called integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
29th » Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is Kyshtym disaster named released in an explosion at the Soviet Union called Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
Famous Birthdays on September in 1957
1st » Gloria Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter and actress
1st » Duško Ivanović, Montenegrin basketball player and coach
22nd » Nick Cave, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (The Birthday Party (band) known as The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Grinderman)
22nd » Johnette Napolitano, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Concrete Blonde)
22nd » Giuseppe Saronni, Italian cyclist and manager