WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO NOVEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened May to November 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's constitution comes into force. (27. August 1957)

Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated. (26. 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 Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar). (22. June 1957)

First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl. (9. June 1957)

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

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

20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. (29. September 1957)

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

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

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

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

The International Geophysical Year begins. (1. 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)

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

The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). (1. August 1957)

The International Atomic Energy Agency is established. (29. July 1957)

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