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Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly And The Crickets, The Drifters, Paul Anka, Frankie Lymon, The Bobbettes, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Bowen and Paul 'Hucklebuck' Williams, play in Alan Freed's Biggest Show Of Stars for 57, at the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
Russia launches the first living creature, a dog called Laika, into space aboard the satellite Sputnik 2. The event is quickly translated into song by hillbilly singer Ray Anderson with Sputniks And Mutniks.