Timeline February 1957

Events in February 1957 6

• 1867 – 1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) Died 10 February 1957, aged 90 American author best known for the Little House series of children's novels, based on her childhood on the American frontier. The books later inspired the long-running television series Little House on the Prairie.
• 1903 – 1957 John von Neumann (1903-1957) Died 8 February 1957, aged 53 Hungarian-American mathematician who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics, game theory, and computer architecture. The "von Neumann architecture" he described remains the basis of most modern computers.
• 1957 Asian flu pandemic spreads worldwide H2N2 influenza outbreak kills over a million people An influenza pandemic caused by the H2N2 virus, first identified in China, spread across Asia, Europe, and the Americas over the course of 1957. It killed an estimated one to two million people worldwide before subsiding.
• 1957 The Wankel rotary engine runs A triangle instead of a piston Felix Wankel's rotary engine runs for the first time at NSU — no pistons, no valves, a triangular rotor sweeping three chambers at once. It is smooth, compact and powerful for its size, and it burns oil, wears its seals out and fails emissions tests. Mazda persists with it for fifty years out of something close to stubbornness.
• 1957 – 1998 Falco Rock Me Amadeus The first German-speaking artist to score a number-one hit on the US Billboard charts.
• 1957 Buddy Holly records That'll Be the Day Norman Petty's studio, Clovis A line from John Wayne in The Searchers.