WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened June to 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)

First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob). (19. September 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 ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl. (9. June 1957)

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

The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. (21. August 1957)

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

American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis – Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School. (4. September 1957)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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