WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened January to December 1957

Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula. (22. January 1957)

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. (2. September 1957)

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

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. (25. September 1957)

At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. (15. May 1957)

A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. (17. March 1957)

Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. (21. June 1957)

The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs. (22. January 1957)

Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot. (22. February 1957)

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

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

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

The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. (4. September 1957)

The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. (3. January 1957)

George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II. (1. January 1957)

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled to be not obscene by the California State Superior Court. (3. October 1957)

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

Ghana joins the United Nations. (8. March 1957)

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

The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed. (25. July 1957)