Editing 1957 (section)

===December===
{{Main|December 1957}}
* [[December 1]] – In [[Indonesia]], [[Sukarno]] announces the [[nationalization]] of 246 [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businesses.
* [[December 4]]
** The [[Lewisham rail crash]] in London, UK, leaves 92 people dead.<ref>{{cite report |last=Langley |first=Brig. C.A. |title=Report on the Collision which occurred on 4th December 1957 near St. Johns station, Lewisham in the Southern Region British Railways |location=[[London]] |url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/documents/MoT_Lewisham1957.pdf |publisher=[[Her Majesty's Stationery Office]] |year=1958 |access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref>
** [[1957 Mongolia earthquake|1957 Bayankhongor Earthquake]] in Mongolia kills 30+ people
* [[December 5]] – All 326,000 Dutch nationals are expelled from [[Indonesia]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91252057 |date=6 December 1957 |title=INDONESIA TO EXPEL DUTCH AS REPRISAL |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |agency=[[Australian Associated Press|A.A.P.]]-[[Reuters|Reuter]] |volume=31 |issue=9,345 |at=Page 1, columns 1-3 |access-date=30 April 2023 |via=[[Trove]]}}</ref>
* [[December 6]] – The first U.S. attempt to launch a [[satellite]] fails, when the [[Vanguard TV3|Vanguard rocket]] blows up on the [[launch pad]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Project Mercury - A Chronology |chapter=Part 1 (A) Major Events Leading to Project Mercury March 1944 through December 1957 |last=Grimwood |first=James M. |series=NASA Special Publication-4001 |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/p1a.htm |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – Canadian diplomat [[Lester B. Pearson]] receives the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], for his peacekeeping efforts in the United Nations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lester Bowles Pearson – Acceptance Speech |website=[[NobelPrize.org]] |publisher=Nobel Prize Outreach AB |year=2023 |access-date=8 April 2023 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1957/pearson/acceptance-speech/}}</ref>
* [[December 18]] – A [[1957 Sunfield tornado|violent F5 tornado]] wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=[[United States Weather Bureau]] |author2=F. W. Reichelderfer (U.S. Weather Bureau) |author3=[[Sinclair Weeks]] (Secretary of the [[United States Department of Commerce]]) |title=Climatological Data National Summary December 1957 |journal=Climatological Data |date=1958 |volume=8 |issue=12 |page=527 |url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/orders/IPS/IPS-F34FBD0F-1D12-4032-8E41-3AF6B975E0EB.pdf |access-date=13 September 2023 |publisher=[[United States Department of Commerce]]}}</ref>
* [[December 20]] – The [[Boeing 707]] airliner flies for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aviation-history.com/boeing/707.html |title=Boeing 707 |website=The Aviation History Online Museum |date=15 October 2013 |publisher=Larry Dwyer |access-date=30 April 2023}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|date=April 2023}}