WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1957
Find out what all happened June to October 1957

John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government. (10. June 1957)

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

First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl. (9. June 1957)

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

Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated. (26. July 1957)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Delaware restaurant. (10. October 1957)

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

The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. (4. September 1957)

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

Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik I's booster rocket's orbit. (11. October 1957)

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

Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada. (14. October 1957)

Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when a hand grenade is tossed into Israel's parliament, the Knesset. (29. October 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)

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled to be not obscene by the California State Superior Court. (3. October 1957)

Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. (22. October 1957)

The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed. (25. 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)

Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario. (4. October 1957)