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South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem began a state visit to the United States, his regime's main sponsor
At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple
South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities
John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal ele
Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada's first female Cabinet Minister
Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the…
The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights…
SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas
Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia
The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public
In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
The French National Assembly takes the first step in creating the French Community by passing the Loi Cadre, transferrin
In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist govern
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing…
Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the…
A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as…
After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing…
The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the…