WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1957
Find out what all happened February to October 1957

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

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

The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping. (9. April 1957)

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

Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). (3. February 1957)

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

John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government. (10. June 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)

Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. (14. July 1957)

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

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

The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. (10. April 1957)

The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar). (22. June 1957)

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

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

Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British (6. March 1957)

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

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

A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu. (9. March 1957)