WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1957
Find out what all happened May to October 1957

Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. (14. July 1957)

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

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. (2. September 1957)

The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). (1. August 1957)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. (24. September 1957)

In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. (22. September 1957)

The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom. (31. August 1957)

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

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

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

U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator. (28. August 1957)

Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismaili worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III. (11. July 1957)

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

Hurricane Audrey makes landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border, killing over 400 people, mainly in and around Cameron, Louisiana. (27. June 1957)

Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos. (5. September 1957)

Malaysia joins the United Nations. (17. September 1957)

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

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

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

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