WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1957
Find out what all happened January to October 1957

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

First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency. (1. October 1957)

American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". (23. January 1957)

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

Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand. (18. February 1957)

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

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. (25. March 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)

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)

In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine. (5. January 1957)

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

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

Malaysia's constitution comes into force. (27. August 1957)

An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks during Operation Harvest; two IRA volunteers killed. (1. January 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)

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)

Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. (8. March 1957)

Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot. (22. February 1957)

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

Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. (4. October 1957)