WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO JULY 1957
Find out what all happened April to 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The International Geophysical Year begins. (1. July 1957)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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