1 January: Hung Government in Malaya. The 1956 elections have resulted in a three way split between the Conservative UMNO, the Socialist BSRM, and the newly founded People's Action Party, or PAP. Led by a passionate politician named Lee Kuan Yew. His positions of pursuing rapid economic growth over social change won over a significant amount of supporters from both sides.
3 January: The Imperial Japanese Army starts tendering a proposal for a tank towards the various Zaibatsus, it would incorporate newly made electronics, better optics, a 105 mm main gun, and high fuel efficiency.
7 January: The Saarland/ Luxembourg Referendum, after years of negotiation between the Rhennish Commune and the Commune of France, both the Saarland region and Luxembourg voted to join the Commune of France.
9 January: Elvis Presley appears at the Ed Sullivan show for the final time.
23 January: The battle of Montgomery, remnant Klansmen, already thoroughly destroyed by Huey Long's efforts against the organisation, tried to do a terror campaign in Alabama, firstly by trying to murder
Willie Edwards, but a local 'defense unit' of African Americans, which just so happen to stumble into the incident, fought against the Klansmen, the fighting eventually bleeds into all over the city, with blacks and whites, both of them having higher amounts of guns due to the civil war, brawling and battling it out in the streets.
3 February: The 1957-58 Influenza pandemic, a virus originating in Guizhou, China, spreads across the world. Expecting to kill 1 million people worldwide.
7 February: A coal explosion in Bishop, Virginia, kills 37 men.
10 February: The Revolution logs it's 60,000th mile, matching the endurance of the Nautilus in Jules Verne's novel, 20,000 leagues under the sea.
18 February: Andrei Gromyko becomes the Foreign Minister of the Russian Republic.
20 February: "The Toddler's Truce", a controversial TV shutdown between 6 to 7 PM, is abolished in the Union of Britain.
28 February:
Gaston, a French comic strip, was unveiled.
1 March: Sud Aviation. A merger between the various aviation companies that dot France, was formed. After multiple union votes, and negotiations between management and workers regarding the company's organisation. The company is very much set to make the much rumoured 'mirage' jet fighter.
4 March: A new stock index, the JCR 500, named after the Japan Credit Rating Agency. Was first published in Japan.
8 March: The first public test flight and unveiling of the
Mitsubishi F-1, a multirole fighter jet that can reach supersonic speeds, is armed with both infrared and semi active radar missiles, and is equipped with external fuel tanks.
14 March: Boris Shumyatsky, current President of the Russian Republic, announces that he will step down. After multiple decades in power. He announced that elections would be held next year. Immediately, the Kadety, Narodniki, and PFER political parties are clear favourites.
26 March: Elvis Presley buys Graceland, on 3734 Bellevue Boulevard, he and his family move on from their old house on 1034 Audubon Drive.
31 March: Kadokawa's
Kimba the White Lion, based off of Osamu Tezuka's manga, was serialized into TV. Broadcasted in NHK, the series became a huge hit with Children.
3 April: Chaos in Malaya, due to the Hung Government, laws and regulations are being passed at a much slower than usual rate. Representatives from UMNO repeatedly criticized the BSRM government and the PAP for not willing to cooperate, while Lee Kuan Yew and Yusof Bin Ishak are accusing each other for being a 'sucker' in politics.
10 April: The
Distant Warning Line, a series of radar stations located in the Kamchatka Peninsula, was finally completed. It would give Japan a big heads up in the event of a mass aerial assault coming in from Canada or America.
2 May: Die Stem van Suid-Afrika, written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the new South African national anthem.
16 May: Exercise Iron Will. A massive exercise involving the Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Indian and Korean Armies, was held in Northern China. All military representatives from the various nations agree that this will become an annual exercise, improving the cohesion and coordination of the various armies. In the 60s and 70s, the armies of the Philippines, Insulindia, and the Middle East would be involved as well.
24 May: May 24th Incident. A mysterious man found dead in the streets of Taipei triggered an immediate police investigation, the results showed that the man died of Police Brutality, and considering that the man was of European Ethnicity, riots started breaking out across the island by the island's significant European population.
9 June:
Broad Peak, on the Chinese-Indian border, was first ascended.
10 June: After 7 years of grueling negotiations and election cycles, the negotiations first initiated by Osman Ali Khan was finally passed by the Council of Princes. It would first create a Council of Commons, in which an independent committee would decide the drawing of the Council Districts to prevent gerrymandering. Other laws such as Universal Healthcare and an abolition of the caste system were also formally ratified and signed. It remains to be seen how this will affect Indian politics.
20 June: Toru Takemitsu's Requiem of Strings was first performed by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
21 June: John Diefenbacker becomes the 13th Prime Minister of the Union of Canada.
27 June: Hurricane Audrey hits Louisiana, killing 400 people.
1 July: The
International Geophysical Year begins.
- The Citroen Traction Avant Automobile was first produced.
6 July: John Lennon and Paul Mccartney first met in Liverpool, at a garden near St. Peter's Church.
9 July: Elvis Presley's film,
Loving You airs in Theatres across America.
15 July: Japanese naval designers have completed a series of drafts around a proposed supercarrier. It would have an angled flight deck, two catapults, and an updated arrestor wire system, capable of launching aircraft at an unprecedented rate, if the projections are to be believed.
20 July: The Nakajima
FA-1, a heavy supersonic fighter-bomber, was first introduced to the public. Both the F-1 and the FA-1 garnered significant attention from the Japanese Military, who were looking at replacements for their aging fleet of Shindens and Keiun Kai's.
29 July: The International Atomic Energy Agency was founded.
1 August: The Kawasaki
FI-1, a competitor to the Mitsubishi proposal, was unveiled to the public, while generally heavier and more fuel intensive, it trades the F-1's range and flexibility with sheer payload capability, able to bring in more weapons into the fight than the F-1.
28 August: The Summer Compromise, Lee Kuan Yew and Yusof Bin Ishak met in Singapore to discuss their differences and end the Hung Government. Lee Kuan Yew agreed to the extensive social reforms Yusof Bin Ishak proposes, while he, in turn, agreed to deregulate and open the Malayan market towards further investments from all across the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The resulting PAP-BSRM coalition government would end the period of Hung Government in Malaya.
1 September: 175 people die in Jamaica, West Indies Federation, in a railway disaster.
4 September: The Little Rock Crisis, the governor of Arkansas orders the deployment of the Union State Militia to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock High School.
7 September: NBC introduces an animated version of it's peacock logo.
9 September: The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed through congress, creating a Civil Rights Commission and increasing African American turnout in American elections in the South.
15 September: The Chinese Army adopts the T-55 as their mainline battle tank, christening it's name as the ZTZ-57. It would serve the Chinese army up to the 1970s with other variants introduced.
17 September:
Have Gun, Will Travel airs on NHK. It is a story of a former samurai who takes up gunslinging, and travels Japan in the late 1800s, helping poor people along his journeys.
20 September: The G12N Shouri project was announced by the Imperial Japanese Air Force, the branch has a desire for a long range, high altitude bomber that can drop both conventional weapons and nuclear bombs if need be. Participants in the contest include Kawasaki, Mitsubishi, Aichi and Nakajima.
1 October: Which? Magazine, a magazine which focuses on independent reviews on a variety of products, was first published in the Union of Britain.
4 October: Messenger Program. The Commune of France launches the first ever satellite, the Messenger 1, into space.
10 October: The Windscale Nuclear Disaster, the Windscale Nuclear Reactor releases radioactive contaminants into the local area, including Iodine 131.
- Atlas Shrugged was published by Author Ayn Rand in Honolulu, Hawaii.
11 October: An NEC Computer, the NEC Model 1955. Successfully calculated the trajectory of the rocket that launched the Messenger satellite, even up to the place where the rocket would eventually crash into.
16 October: The Sphere Expo begins, and it was a disaster.
22 October: The battle of the Desert, Sudanese and Toubou troops clash once more in the deserts of North Africa, escalating tensions in the region.
27 October: Cêlal Bayar was re-elected President of Turkey.
31 October: Toyota begins exporting vehicles to the 'Non Syndicalist West.' In nations such as Australia, New Zealand, and the Union State of America. Due to earlier negotiations between Japan and Australia, Australian carmaker Holden would also get the chance to set up shop in Japan, bringing Australian vehicles on sale for the first time in the land of the rising sun.
3 November: The Commune of France launches Messenger 2, with a dog inside of it, the dog was successfully brought back to Earth after a 7 day journey. Landing in the Massif Central region in France.
13 November: A researcher at Kyushu University invents the Laser.
30 November: In a regular trip to the islands, the plane where Soekarno was supposed to be travelling broke down. He lived with the locals for 7 days as a replacement plane was acquired, endearing his personality to much of the islanders.
5 December: The first ever Japanese attempt to launch a rocket fails, with the explosion of the N-1 Rocket at the launch pad.
18 December:
The journey across the jungle, detailing the struggles and battles of the average Japanese soldier while fighting the Syndicalists in Burma, was released. It was a smashing hit.
19 December: Japan Helicopter and Aeroplane Transport Company formally renames itself to All Nippon Airways, or ANA for short.
20 December: The Mitsubishi
Skyjet 100 flies for the first time, production of the jet would begin immediately.
31 December: Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, announces that he will be travelling to Japan to negotiate a trade deal, much to the surprise of both the Japanese and Filipino authorities.