WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1957
Find out what all happened February to August 1957

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

Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated. (26. July 1957)

Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. (18. February 1957)

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

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

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

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

34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England. (1. May 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)

Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage. (2. February 1957)

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

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

In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. (24. June 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)

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

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

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

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

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