WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened January to September 1957

The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. (29. July 1957)

Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines. (6. April 1957)

Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. (14. January 1957)

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

White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city. (15. April 1957)

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. (11. April 1957)

Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region. (24. April 1957)

Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kill 992. (28. July 1957)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley. (4. June 1957)

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. (22. September 1957)

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. (29. March 1957)

The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal. (11. January 1957)

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

American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". (23. January 1957)

The International Geophysical Year begins. (1. July 1957)

The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore (24. April 1957)

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

American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network. (5. August 1957)

Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. (8. March 1957)

American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School. (4. September 1957)