• Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes accidentally invent bubble wrap while trying to create plastic wallpaper.
• The Brooklyn Dodgers play their final game at Ebbets Field, before moving on to Los Angeles the following year.

These people were born in 1957:

• Saudi-born Islamic extremist Osama bin Laden.

These people died in 1957:

• United States Senator Joseph McCarthy.

1956 - 1957 - 1958

20th century

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