WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO APRIL 1957
Find out what all happened February to April 1957

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

In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister. (5. April 1957)

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

Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand. (18. February 1957)

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

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

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

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

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

Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. (13. March 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)

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

The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). (25. March 1957)

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

Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany (1. February 1957)

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. (25. March 1957)

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

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

The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia. (8. March 1957)