WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened June to December 1957

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

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

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

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)

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

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

The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas. (1. November 1957)

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

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

Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister. (21. June 1957)

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

The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight. (20. December 1957)

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

Operation Grapple X, Round C1: the United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. (8. November 1957)

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

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

The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested. (14. November 1957)