WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 1957
Find out what all happened March to July 1957

Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. (13. March 1957)

Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. (8. March 1957)

United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on the grounds of obscenity. (25. March 1957)

Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British (6. March 1957)

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

In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister. (5. April 1957)

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

United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule. (11. April 1957)

The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar). (22. June 1957)

The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. (29. March 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)

Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. (31. March 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)

The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore (24. April 1957)

The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months. (10. April 1957)

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

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

The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. (4. March 1957)

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

A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. (17. March 1957)