WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1957
Find out what all happened January to May 1957

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

Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines. (6. April 1957)

Ghana joins the United Nations. (8. March 1957)

The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia. (8. March 1957)

Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. (31. March 1957)

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

An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks during Operation Harvest; two IRA volunteers killed. (1. January 1957)

The African Convention is founded in Dakar, Senegal. (11. January 1957)

The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. (3. January 1957)

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

The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs. (22. January 1957)

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. (25. March 1957)

Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. (14. January 1957)

The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama. (1. April 1957)

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

Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government. (18. February 1957)

The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. (10. April 1957)

The European Economic Community is established (West Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg). (25. March 1957)

Felix Wankel's first working prototype (DKM 54) of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany (1. February 1957)

Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS). (3. February 1957)