WHAT HAPPENED IN 1957.
Look what happened the 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)

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

The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. (24. October 1957)

Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset. (29. October 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)

The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity. (2. November 1957)

Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika. (3. November 1957)

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

The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested. (14. November 1957)

Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. (17. November 1957)

Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia. (5. December 1957)

Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. (6. December 1957)

Sir Feroz Khan Noon replaces Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar as Prime Minister of Pakistan. (16. December 1957)

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

The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight. (20. December 1957)