WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened April to December 1957

Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan. (16. December 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)

First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). (19. September 1957)

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

The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed. (25. July 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 United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). (1. August 1957)

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

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

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. (22. September 1957)

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

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

Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. (22. October 1957)

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

Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. (21. June 1957)

American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School. (4. September 1957)

The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida. (17. December 1957)

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

The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. (1. November 1957)