President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. Date: September 24, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 24 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
Little Rock schools integration crisis: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, and federalizes the Arkansas National Guard, ordering both to support the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Date: September 23, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 23 📅 Events on this…
In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president. Date: September 22, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 22 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie. Date: September 21, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 21 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos. Date: September 5, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 5 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year. Date: September 4, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 4 📅…
President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. Date: September 2, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 2 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom. Date: August 31, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 31 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)
U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later. This would remain the longest speech ever conducted by a single Senator until Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and five minutes, beginning on…
The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. Date: August 21, 1957 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 21 📅 Events on this day in 1957 📅 On This Day (Today)