WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO JULY 1957
Find out what all happened February to July 1957

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. (11. April 1957)

The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed. (25. July 1957)

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

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

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

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

The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom. (16. February 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)

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

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

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

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous Power of Nonviolence speech at the University of California, Berkeley. (4. June 1957)

In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. (24. June 1957)

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

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

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

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

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