16th anniversary of Pearl Harbor was 1957

We'll never be able to declare victory over an ideology ('terror').

August[edit]
August 5 – American Bandstand, a local dance show produced by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, joins the ABC Television Network.
August 21 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing.
August 28 – United States Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) sets the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.
September[edit]

September: Little Rock Nine
September 4
American Civil Rights Movement – Governor Orville Faubus of Arkansas calls out the National Guard of the United States to prevent the "Little Rock Nine" African-American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School.
The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as "E Day".
September 9
Civil Rights Act of 1957 enacted, setting up the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Catholic Memorial High School opens its doors for the first time in Boston, Massachusetts.
September 24 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Little Rock Central High School for the Little Rock Nine.
September 26 – West Side Story, a new musical by Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.
October[edit]
October 9 – Neil H. McElroy is sworn in as United States Secretary of Defense.
October 10
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware.
Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged is published.
October 11 – The orbit of the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket (carrying Sputnik I) is first successfully calculated on an IBM 704 computer during Operation Moonwatch, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
October 21 – The U.S. military sustains its first combat fatality in Vietnam, Army Capt. Hank Cramer of the 1st Special Forces Group.
October 25 – Mafia boss Albert Anastasia is assassinated in a barber shop, at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City.
October 31 – Toyota begins exporting vehicles to the U.S., beginning with the Toyota Crown and the Toyota Land Cruiser
November[edit]
November 1 – The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's two peninsulas.
November 6 – Jailhouse Rock opens nationally and Elvis Presley continues to gain more notoriety.
November 7 – Cold War: In the United States, the Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
November 14 – Apalachin Meeting: American Mafia leaders meet in Apalachin, New York, at the house of Joseph Barbara; the meeting is broken up by a curious patrolman.
November 16
Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden of Plainfield, Wisconsin.
Oklahoma celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood.
Notre Dame beats the Oklahoma Sooners 7–0 to end the Sooners record 47 straight college football winning streak.
November 25 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a stroke.
December[edit]

December 2: Shippingport Reactor goes online
December 2 – Shippingport Atomic Power Station goes onstream; commercial operation begins on May 26, 1958.
December 6 – Vanguard TV3, the first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite, fails with the rocket blowing up on the launch pad.
December 19 – Meredith Willson's classic musical The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, debuts on Broadway.
December 20 – The Boeing 707 airliner flies for the first time.
December 22 – The CBS afternoon anthology series Seven Lively Arts presents Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker on U.S. television for the first time.
Undated[edit]