WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened October to December 1957

The Windscale fire in Cumbria, U.K. is the world's first major nuclear accident. (10. October 1957)

The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. (24. October 1957)

Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS. (4. October 1957)

First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency. (1. October 1957)

Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada. (14. October 1957)

Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. (6. December 1957)

Operation Grapple X, Round C1: the United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. (8. November 1957)

Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. (4. October 1957)

The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (17. December 1957)

Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. (4. October 1957)

Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset. (29. October 1957)

Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia. (5. December 1957)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. (10. October 1957)

The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity. (2. November 1957)

The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. (1. November 1957)

Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit. (11. October 1957)

The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested. (14. November 1957)

Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. (22. October 1957)

Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. (7. November 1957)

Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan. (16. December 1957)