WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO NOVEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened July to November 1957

Operation Grapple X, Round C1: the United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. (8. November 1957)

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

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

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

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

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

First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). (19. September 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 Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. (4. September 1957)

Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. (24. September 1957)

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

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)

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

Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS. (4. October 1957)

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

Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. (4. October 1957)

Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit. (11. October 1957)

U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. (28. August 1957)

The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom. (31. August 1957)