1957 Headline News

The space race is on with Russia's launch of Sputnik.
The U.N. occupies the Gaza Strip as the Israelis withdraw from Egypt.
The U.S. opens its first nuclear power plant.
Kwame Nkumrah becomes the first prime minister of the newly independant Ghana.
Krushchev retains power, despite efforts by Malenkov and Molotov to wrest it from him.

Anthony Eden resigns as English Prime Minister, replaced by Harold MacMillan.


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