Editing 1957 (section)

== 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.