WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO SEPTEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened May to September 1957

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

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

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

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops. (25. September 1957)

Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kill 992. (28. July 1957)

American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network. (5. August 1957)

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

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

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

Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. (21. June 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)

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

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

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

Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. (24. September 1957)

20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. (29. September 1957)

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

The International Geophysical Year begins. (1. July 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)

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