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March 25, 1957

On March 25, 1957, united States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds. Mukesh Ambani, Hervé Le Tellier, Herbert Wetterauer would arrive in the same year.

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1957

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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.

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On March 25, 1957

  1. 1957 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.

    US federal law enforcement agency

    United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. S. regulations, including trade, customs, and immigration.

  2. 1957 The European Economic Community is established with West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members.

    Regional organisation from 1958 to 1993

    The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957, aiming to foster economic integration among its member states. It was subsequently renamed the European Community (EC) upon becoming integrated into the first pillar of the newly formed European Union (EU) in 1993. In the popular language, the singular European Community was sometimes inaccurately used in the wider sense of the plural European Communities, in spite of the latter designation covering all the three constituent entities of the first pillar.

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The class of 1957

Others born in 1957

Mukesh Ambani 1957– Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries
Hervé Le Tellier 1957– French linguist and author
Herbert Wetterauer 1957– German painter, sculptor, and author
Donald Tusk 1957– Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland
Bob Horner 1957– American baseball player
Steve Buscemi 1957– American actor and director

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