President Eisenhower authorizes a million dollars toward relief of Cuban refugees arriving in Florida at a rate of 1000 a week.
Gary Powers, U-2 pilot, shot down over Russia, was given 10-year prison sentence for espionage. At a United Nations Assembly, Soviet Premiere Khrushchev pounds his shoe on the lectern to protest discussion of Soviet policies toward Eastern Europe.
The European Economic Market (Common Market), created by the Treaty of Rome this year, is an important part of the economic union among France, West Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Gov. Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from enrolling in Little Rock High Central School.
Gamal Abdul Nassar nationalizes the British and French controlled Suez Canal, hoping to use tolls to pay for dam on the Nile. Israel invaded Egypt, but due to international pressure the Israeli forces left in March, 1957. The Canal reopened under Egyptian control.
In Indochina, a Cease-Fire line between French forces in the south and Vietnamese forces in the north is drawn by a Peace Convention in Geneva with free elections to follow. Failure to keep this agreement led to the wider Vietnam War in which the U.S.
The CIA helps restore Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power in Iran, overthrowing the democratically elected Mohammad Mossadegh. Vice President Nixon visits Iran causing riots.
On TV the world watches the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the Eisenhower inauguration, Lucy giving birth on “I Love Lucy”.
People’s Republic of China takes control in Lhasa, Tibet. The Dalai Lama is welcomed in India where he lives at present.
Relieved of duty by President Truman, General McArthur makes an emotional farewell address, “And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away…”
China enters into Korean military action: after inconclusive combat up and down the peninsula, a stalemate results in the first armistice talks.
