Timeline Thursday 10 January 1957

Events on Thursday 10 January 1957 2

• 1889 – 1957 Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) Died 10 January 1957, aged 67 Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat who in 1945 became the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her poetry drew heavily on themes of childhood, motherhood, and loss.
• 1957 Harold Macmillan becomes UK Prime Minister Succeeds Anthony Eden after the Suez Crisis Harold Macmillan became British Prime Minister after Anthony Eden resigned in the wake of the Suez Crisis. Macmillan went on to lead Britain through much of the late 1950s and early 1960s.