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November 3, 1957

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Notable Births

Dolph Lundgren

1957Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and martial artist[†]

Hans "Dolph" Lundgren is a Swedish actor, filmmaker, and martial artist. Lundgren made his acting debut in 1985 with a cameo in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. Also that year, he had his breakthrough in Sylvester Stallone's Rocky IV, in which he played the lead villain as the imposing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago.

1957Gary Olsen, English actor (died 2000)[†]

Gary Olsen was an English actor. He played Ben Porter on the BBC television sitcom 2point4 Children from 1991 to 1999.

Steve Johnson (basketball)

1957Steve Johnson, American basketball player[†]

Clarence Stephen Johnson is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played the power forward and center positions.

Notable Deaths

Wilhelm Reich

1957Wilhelm Reich, Ukrainian-Austrian psychotherapist and author (born 1897)[†]

Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, The Impulsive Character (1925), The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Character Analysis (1933), and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), he became one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.

Historical Events

List of spacecraft called Sputnik

1957Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.[†]

Sputnik is a name for multiple spacecraft launched under the Soviet space program. "Sputnik 1", "Sputnik 2" and "Sputnik 3" were the official Soviet names of those objects, and the remaining designations in the series were not official names but names applied in the West to objects whose original Soviet names may not have been known at the time.

Historical Context for November 3, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]