1957
ID: 1717
Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, creating national panic about falling behind
ID: 1717
1957
ID: 1718
Educational Crisis: Critics blame 'progressive education'; demand rigid curriculum
ID: 1718
1957
ID: 1719
Rhode Island psychiatrists coin 'hyperkinetic impulse disorder' - drastically lowered threshold
ID: 1719
1957
ID: 1720
Louis Nichols (Hoover's #2) hired as Schenley executive; CDC formed
ID: 1720
1957
ID: 1721
Investigation reveals 90% of West German prosecutors have Nazi backgrounds
ID: 1721
1957
ID: 1722
Czechoslovakia prisoner exchange returns 10,000+ Germans including major war criminals
ID: 1722
1957
ID: 1723
Germany signs Treaty of Rome as founding member of European Economic Community
ID: 1723
1957
ID: 1724
Germany holds its first EU Council Presidency
ID: 1724
1957
ID: 1725
American Institute of CPAs officially adopts current name - Unifying accounting profession
ID: 1725
1957
ID: 1726
Sputnik launched using mathematical orbital mechanics - Space age begins
ID: 1726
1957
ID: 1727
Alexander Grothendieck begins systematic reconstruction of algebraic geometry
ID: 1727
1957
ID: 1728
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, spurring aerospace materials development
ID: 1728
1957
ID: 1729
Polypropylene first produced commercially by Montecatini using Ziegler-Natta catalysts
ID: 1729
1957
ID: 1730
England begins national whooping cough vaccination
ID: 1730
1957
ID: 1731
Oswald stationed at Atsugi, Japan (1957-1958) - U-2 operations access
ID: 1731
1957
ID: 1732
Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron conducts 'Montreal Experiments' at Allan Memorial Institute (1957-1964)
ID: 1732
1957
ID: 4308
William Norris founds Control Data Corporation with Seymour Cray as chief designer - focus on supercomputers
ID: 4308
1957
ID: 4616
Grothendieck introduces derived categories - revolutionizes homological algebra
ID: 4616
1957
ID: 5683
High-fructose corn syrup developed - maize derivative transforms food industry, becomes ubiquitous sweetener
ID: 5683
1957
ID: 4411
April 1957
IBM releases FORTRAN I - 'FORmula TRANslation', first commercially successful high-level language, 18 person-years of effort
ID: 4411
1957
ID: 4307
August 1957
Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson found Digital Equipment Corporation with $70,000 - future minicomputer leader
ID: 4307
1957
ID: 4306
October 1957
Fairchild Semiconductor founded by 'Traitorous Eight' from Shockley - begins Silicon Valley revolution
ID: 4306
1957
ID: 4374
October 1957
Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and six others leave Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild - birth of Silicon Valley culture
ID: 4374