WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO MAY 1957
Find out what all happened April to May 1957

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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