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The following events occurred in September 1957:

• Apparently because a stopcock in the brake line was accidentally bumped by a coupler, the brakes failed on a heavily loaded 12-car church excursion train returning from Montego Bay to Kingston, British Jamaica. The crew failed to detect and act on the problem until the train ran away and derailed on a curve at Kendal. Five cars rolled into a ditch and two became wedged in a narrow cutting; 179 people were killed, and hundreds injured.^[1][2]
• Born: Gloria Estefan (born Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García), Cuban-born American singer; in Havana^[3]

• Died: Dennis Brain, 36, English French horn player, died in a traffic collision.^[4]

• Died: Bobby Myers, 30, American NASCAR driver, was killed in a race crash during the Southern 500 in Darlington, South Carolina.^[5]

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• Died: Hermann Kastner, 70, East German politician and defector, died of a heart attack aboard a train in Munich, West Germany.^[6][7][8]

• During the Cuban Revolution, Fulgencio Batista’s forces bombed anti-government riots in Cienfuegos.^[9][10]
• The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Security Council Resolution 125, recommending to the General Assembly that the Federation of Malaya be admitted to the United Nations.^[11]

• Born: José Sócrates, 117th Prime Minister of Portugal; in Vilar de Maçada, Alijó^[12]

• Approaching a section where one track was closed for construction, a train from Paris to Nîmes failed to slow for the crossover at Nozières-Brignon station, and reached it at 92 km/h (57 mph) instead of 30 km/h (19 mph). The locomotive derailed and breached a culvert under the track, which stopped it suddenly, worsening the pileup of cars. 27 people were killed and 134 injured, 30 seriously.^[13][14][15]
• In New Orleans, Louisiana, television station WWL-TV went on the air for the first time.^[16]

• Marilyn Van Derbur won the Miss America 1958 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey.^[17]
• Born:
  • Stewart Finlay-McLennan, Australian actor; in Broken Hill, New South Wales^{[citation needed]}
  • José Luis Gaitán, Argentine footballer; in Rosario^[18]
  • Lynbert Johnson, American professional basketball player; in New York City^[19]
  • Anders Jormin, Swedish bassist and composer; in Stockholm^[20]
  • Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish athlete; in Poznań^[21]
  • Corporal Kirchner (ring name of Michael James Penzel), United States Army paratrooper and professional wrestler; in Chicago (d. 2021, heart attack)^[22]
  • John McInerney, British-German singer-songwriter (Bad Boys Blue); in Liverpool^{[citation needed]}
  • Iskra Mihaylova, Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament; in Sofia^[23]
  • Nasser Mohammadkhani, Iranian footballer; in Tehran^[24]
  • J. Smith-Cameron (born Jean Isabel Smith), American actress; in Louisville, Kentucky^[25]
  • Jermaine Stewart (born William Jermaine Stewart), American R&B singer; in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1997, AIDS-related hepatocellular carcinoma)^[26][27]
• Died: Manlio Rho, 56, Italian painter^[28]

• Born:
  • Joe Bocan (born Johanne Beauchamp), Canadian pop singer and actress; in Montreal^[29]
  • Walt Easley, professional American football fullback; in Charleston, West Virginia (d. 2013)^[30]
  • Ricardo Montaner (born Héctor Eduardo Reglero Montaner), Argentine-born Venezuelan singer; in Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires^{[citation needed]}
  • Heather Thomas, American actress (The Fall Guy); in Greenwich, Connecticut^[31]

• U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law, establishing the United States Commission on Civil Rights.^[32]
• Died: Muhammad al-Muqri, 103, former Grand Vizier of French Morocco^[33]

• Shortly after midnight, a bomb exploded at Hattie Cotton Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee, which had admitted its first African-American student the previous day, severely damaging one wing of the building.^[34][35]
• William C. Beall, chief photographer for The Washington Daily News, took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Faith and Confidence at a parade in Chinatown, Washington, D.C.^[36]
• Died: Walter A. Lynch, 63, American lawyer and politician, former member of the United States House of Representatives from New York^[37][38]

• Born: Preben Elkjær, Danish footballer; in Copenhagen^[39]

• Born:
  • Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian; in Stavanger, Rogaland^[40]
  • Kadim Al Sahir, Iraqi singer; in Mosul^[41]
  • Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress; in Cornwell, Oxfordshire^[42]
  • Hans Zimmer, German film score composer; in Frankfurt, West Germany^[43]
• Died: Clendenin J. Ryan, 52, American businessman and magazine publisher, shot himself to death.^[44]

• Born:
  • Cesare Bocci, Italian actor; in Camerino^[45]
  • Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer; in Belfast^[46]
  • Bongbong Marcos (born Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.), 17th President of the Philippines; in Santa Mesa, Manila^[47]

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• Born: David McCreery, Irish footballer; in Belfast^[48]
• Died: Qi Baishi, 93, Chinese painter^[49]

• Born: Wayne White, American painter and puppeteer^[50]

• Born: Mark Wells, American professional and Olympic champion ice hockey player; in St. Clair Shores, Michigan (d. 2024)^[51][52]
• Died: Sir Galba (born George Brindsley McSween), 38, Grenada-born calypsonian, died by suicide after stabbing his girlfriend.^[53]

• Born:
  • Mark Acheson, Canadian film, television and voice actor; in Edmonton, Alberta^[54]
  • Chris Roupas, Greek-American basketball player; in York, Pennsylvania^[55]

• American boxer Archie Moore retained the world light-heavyweight title with a seventh-round knockout of Tony Anthony in Los Angeles.^[56]
• Born: Sabine Christiansen, German journalist and television presenter; in Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany^[57]
• Died:
  • Jean Sibelius, 91, Finnish composer, died of a cerebral hemorrhage.^[58]
  • Merrill Moore, 54, American poet and psychiatrist, died of cancer.^[59][60]

• King Haakon VII of Norway died of a respiratory ailment at the age of 85. His 54-year-old son, Olav V, succeeded him as King.^[61][62][63]

• The German sailing ship Pamir sank off the Azores in a hurricane. Of the 86 men aboard, 80 died either in the sinking or over the next three days before the survivors were rescued.^[64]
• Born:
  • Ethan Coen, American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, brother of Joel Coen; in St. Louis Park, Minnesota^[65]
  • Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia; in Nambour, Queensland^[66]
• Died: Norma Giménez, 27, Argentine stage and film actress, committed suicide by throwing herself under a train.^[67]

• Born:
  • Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter and actor; in Warracknabeal, Victoria^[68]
  • Mark Johnson, American college and Olympic ice hockey coach and college, professional and Olympic champion ice hockey player; in Minneapolis^[69]
  • Dalia Reyes Barrios, Venezuelan art collector; in Maracaibo^[70]
• Died: Toyoda Soemu, 72, Japanese admiral^{[71][self-published source?]}

• Born: Rosalind Chao, American actress known for M*A*S*H, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; in Los Angeles^[72]

• Camp Nou, home stadium of FC Barcelona, officially opened in Barcelona, Spain.^[73]

• The second Atlas launch vehicle was destroyed in a launching attempt at Cape Canaveral, Florida.^[74]

• Born: Luigi De Canio, Italian footballer and football manager; in Matera^[75]

• Born: Peter Sellars, American theatre director; in Pittsburgh^[76]

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• The Kyshtym disaster occurred at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia.^[77]
• In British Nigeria, a 16-car train from Lagos to Kano was being driven carefully because of possible track damage from heavy rain, but when a culvert became blocked, the water rose rapidly and the driver was caught unawares by the resulting washout, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Ibadan. Seven cars derailed; early reports indicated 300 people missing, but it turned out that many of them walked away. However, 66 were killed and 122 injured.^[78][79]
• At Montgomery, Pakistan, a Karachi-bound express passenger train collided at full speed with a stationary oil-tanker train before midnight. 300 people were killed and 150 injured by the accident.^[78][80]
• Born: Andrew Dice Clay, American comedian; in Brooklyn, New York City^[81]
• Died: Manuel Briones, 64, Filipino lawyer, judge and politician^[82]

• The funeral of composer Jean Sibelius was held in Helsinki.^[83]
• Born: Fran Drescher, American actress; in Flushing, Queens, New York City^[84]
• Died: David Frederick Wallace, 57, American architect, brother of former First Lady of the United States Bess Truman, died of kidney disease.^[85]