WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened February to September 1957

The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. (21. August 1957)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. (24. September 1957)

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

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

The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom. (31. August 1957)

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

Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana. (27. June 1957)

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

First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). (19. September 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)

Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. (24. September 1957)

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

34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England. (1. May 1957)

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

Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III. (11. July 1957)

In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. (24. June 1957)

The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. (4. March 1957)

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

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