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  • Liverpool, England
    Mar, 1957
    The Beatles

    The Quarrymen Band

    Liverpool, England
    Mar, 1957

    In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a skiffle group with several friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a respected local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined them as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he and Lennon met that July.




  • Algeria
    Mar, 1957
    Algerian War

    The FLN organisation within Algiers had been completely broken

    Algeria
    Mar, 1957

    By late March 1957 the FLN organisation within Algiers had been completely broken, with most of the FLN leadership killed or underground and no bombs went off in Algiers. The 10e DP were withdrawn from the city and redeployed to engage the FLN in the Kabylia. However Yacef set about rebuilding his organisation within Algiers.




  • Algeria
    Wednesday Mar 6, 1957
    Algerian War

    It was announced that Ben M'hidi had committed suicide by hanging himself with his shirt

    Algeria
    Wednesday Mar 6, 1957

    On 6 March it was announced that Ben M'hidi had committed suicide by hanging himself with his shirt.




  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    Sunday Mar 10, 1957
    Bin Laden

    Birth

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    Sunday Mar 10, 1957

    Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.




  • Qanat-e Malek, Kerman Province, Iran
    Monday Mar 11, 1957
    Qasem Soleimani

    Birth

    Qanat-e Malek, Kerman Province, Iran
    Monday Mar 11, 1957

    Soleimani was born on 11 March 1957, in the village of Qanat-e Malek, Kerman Province.




  • Algeria
    Saturday Mar 23, 1957
    Algerian War

    A meeting between Massu, Trinquier, Fossy-Francois and Aussaresses

    Algeria
    Saturday Mar 23, 1957

    On 23 March following a meeting between Massu, Trinquier, Fossy-Francois and Aussaresses to discuss what was to be done with Ali Boumendjel, Aussaresses went to the prison where Boumendjel was being held and ordered that he be transferred to another building, in the process he was thrown from a 6th floor skybridge to his death.




  • Rwanda
    Sunday Mar 24, 1957
    Rwandan genocide

    Bahutu Manifesto

    Rwanda
    Sunday Mar 24, 1957

    In 1957, a group of Hutu scholars wrote the "Bahutu Manifesto". This was the first document to label the Tutsi and Hutu as separate races, and called for the transfer of power from Tutsi to Hutu based on what it termed "statistical law".


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