Editing 1957

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== Events ==
* January 6 - [[Sigurbjörn Ingi Þorvaldsson]] kills Konkordía Jónatansdóttir with a rifle shot at the Reykjavik School of Horticulture
* January 23 - 24-year old African-American man Willie Edwards is abducted and murdered in Montgomery County, Alabama by the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
* February 11 - [[William Unek]] goes on a second killing spree in Malampaka, Tanzania, killing a total of 36 people. He would later be killed by police after being cornered in a house in the village.
* March 6 - Ghana (formerly known as the Gold Coast) declares independence from the United Kingdom. [[Kwame Nkrumah]], who had been Prime Minister, retains the position in the new republic.
* March 14 - President [[Sukarno]] declares martial law in Indonesia.
* May 10 - [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]] is ousted as President of Colombia.
* June - [[Parmehutu]] is founded.
* July 26 - President of Guatemala [[Carlos Castillo Armas]] is assassinated in the presidential palace in Guatemala City by [[Romeo Vásquez Sánchez]], a left-wing sympathizer and member of the presidential guard.
*September 4 - Governor [[Orval Faubus]] of Arkansas calls out the National Guard of the United States to prevent African-American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School.
* October 22 - [[François Duvalier]] is elected President of Haiti.
* November 14 - [[Vito Genovese]] declares himself ''capo de tutti capi'' of the [[American Mafia]].
* Unknown - [[SAVAK]] is founded.
* Unknown - The [[Mexican Mafia]] is founded.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 6 - [[Freddie Lee Glenn]]
* January 12 - [[Augustin Ngirabatware]]
* January 17 - [[Anthony Warner]]
* January 25 - [[Luis Garavito]]
* January 27 - [[Yaser Abdel Said]]
* February 15 - [[Nathaniel Bar-Jonah]]
* February 20 - [[Giovanni Brusca]]
* March 10 - [[Osama bin Laden]]
* March 11 - [[Qasem Soleimani]]
* April 4 - [[Joaquín Guzmán Loera]]
* May 26 - [[Mary Bell]]
* June 29 - [[Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]]
* July 17 - [[Debra McCurdy]]
* August 11 - [[Ian Stuart Donaldson]]
* September 3 - [[Delroy Grant]]
* September 4 - [[James Duckett]]
* September 9 - [[Anthony Barbaro]]
*September 13 - [[Bongbong Marcos]]
* October 4 - [[Branimir Donchev]]
* October 18 - [[Laurie Dann]]
* October 23 - [[Paul Kagame]]
* October 28 - [[Simon Lokodo]]
* October 31 - [[Shirley Phelps-Roper]]
* November 27 - [[Derrick Bird]]
* December 6 - [[Andrew Cuomo]] and [[Dana Sue Gray]]
* December 17 - [[Juana Barraza]]
* December 25 - [[Hassan Ngeze]]
*Unknown - [[Inderjit Kainth]]
*Unknown - [[Ben Garrison]]

=== Victim births ===
* January 31 - Carla Jan Walker
* February 7 - Sheri Rasmussen
* March 12 - Debra Kent
* July 4 - Melissa Smith
* July 20 - Michele LeAnn Morgan
* August 8 - Michael Baulch 
* August 21 - Laura Aime
* November 6 - Maria Wahlen
* November 29 - Debra Rene Spivey Barton
* Unknown - Bich Ha Pan
* Unknown - Ricky Beeks

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* January 11 - [[Jack Gilbert Graham]]
* February 21 - [[William Unek]]
* March 30 - [[Max Amann]]
* April 16 - [[Johnny Torrio]]
* May 2 - [[Joseph McCarthy]]
* July 26 - [[Carlos Castillo Armas]]
* August 9 - [[Carl Clauberg]]
* October 25 - [[Albert Anastasia]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 6 - Konkordía Jónatansdóttir
* January 23 - Willie Edwards