Timeline Friday 1 February 1957

Events on Friday 1 February 1957 2

• 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.