WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO NOVEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened March to November 1957

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

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

Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos. (5. September 1957)

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

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

Malaysia's constitution comes into force. (27. August 1957)

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

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

Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters. (7. November 1957)

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

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

The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity. (2. November 1957)

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

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. (2. September 1957)

Malaysia joins the United Nations. (17. September 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 Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. (21. August 1957)

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

The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama. (1. April 1957)

Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so. (6. July 1957)