1957 in Chile
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The following lists events that happened during 1957 in Chile.
Incumbents
Events
March
- Chilean parliamentary election, 1957
April
- state of siege and take the armyout into the streets
July
- 24 July - Influenza outbreak in the port of Valparaíso. Between August and September it would expand to all of Chile.
- 28 July - Christian Democratic Partyis founded.
October
- 5 October - In Valparaíso, UCV Televisión, the first Chilean television channel, begins its transmissions.
December
- 22 December – Two buses collide near San Antonio, killing 21.[1]
Births
- date unknown – Roberto Brodsky
- 3 January – Héctor Hoffens
- 13 July – Benedicto Villablanca
- 8 August – Roberto Rojas
- 25 August – Lizardo Garrido
- 2 November – Osvaldo Heriberto Hurtado Galeguillo
- 5 December – Raquel Argandoña
- 21 December – Roberto Cifuentes
Deaths
- 10 January – Gabriela Mistral, poet (born 1889)[2]
- 9 April – Pedro Opaso (born 1876)
- 12 May – Guillermo Saavedra (born 1903)
- 10 July – Ernesto Chaparro (born 1901)
- 25 September – Max Westenhöfer (born 1871)
References
- ProQuest 113932044.
- ISBN 978-0-89680-230-8.
