WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO NOVEMBER 1957
Find out what all happened April to November 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)

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)

34 of 35 people aboard are killed when a Vickers Viking airliner crashes in Hampshire England. (1. May 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)

First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency. (1. October 1957)

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

The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity. (2. November 1957)

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

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

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

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

The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. (24. October 1957)

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

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

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

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

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)

The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping. (9. April 1957)

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