WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MAY 1957
Find out what all happened February to May 1957

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. (13. March 1957)

Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British (6. 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)

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

A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. (17. March 1957)

Iskander Mirza of Pakistan lays the foundation-stone of the Guddu Barrage. (2. February 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)

White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city. (15. April 1957)

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

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

The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore (24. April 1957)

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. (29. March 1957)