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* 1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
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Ramstedt's two-volume magnum opus, Einführung in die altaische Sprachwissenschaft (' Introduction to Altaic Linguistics ') was published in 1952 – 1957.
* 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines ( TAE ) and founds Olympic Airlines.
* 1957 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Pure Prairie League and The Notorious Cherry Bombs )
1957 and Suez
* 1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
* 31 October 1956 to 24 April 1957 — Suez Canal is blocked to shipping following the planned invasion of the eastern Sinai by Israel, and later French and British, occupation of the Suez Canal Zone.
Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953
* Lester B. Pearson ( a future Prime Minister ) defused the Suez Crisis and established the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces and as a result received the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize.
However, it resumed in 1951, and has been contested every year since with only two exceptions, 1957 ( Suez Crisis ) and 1967 ( Foot and Mouth Disease ).
In 1957, soon after Suez and the resulting diplomatic tension with both the USSR and the United States, French president René Coty decided on the creation of the C. S. E. M.
No 10 Squadron reverted to its original bomber role in the 1950s and early 1960s, seeing it take part in the Suez Crisis, equipped upon reformation at RAF Scampton on 15 January 1953 with the Canberra until disbandment exactly four years later on 15 January 1957, and after reforming at RAF Cottesmore on 15 April 1958 flying Victors until disbandment on 1 March 1964.
She and her parents left Egypt in 1957 after the Suez War of 1956, arriving in London as stateless refugees.
" Low officially repudiated anti-Semitism in 1957 after having criticized Canada for not fully supporting Britain and France in the Suez Crisis and having visited the state of Israel.
An improved version called the MAS-49 / 56 was introduced in 1957 and incorporated lessons learned from service in Algeria, Indochina, and the Suez Crisis.
In 1957 Cowling was invited by the Director of the Conservative Political Centre to write a pamphlet on the Suez Crisis ; it was never published however, as the party wanted to move on from Suez as quickly as possible.
Petrol rationing was briefly reintroduced in late 1956 during the Suez Crisis but ended again on 14 May 1957.
Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester Pearson, while he was President of the UN General Assembly in 1957, proposed the concept of UN peacekeeping forces as a means of dealing with the aftermath of the Suez Crisis.
Though US President Dwight D. Eisenhower was also infuriated at the invasion and had successfully brought an end to end to Suez Crisis by pressuring the invading forces to withdraw from Egypt by early 1957, the United States continued to maintain good relations with Britain, France and Israel and sought to limit Soviet ally Nasser's influence, thus damaging it's relations with the Middle East for the next 35 years.
In April 1957, in the new conditions made obvious by the Suez debacle, the British government accepted that bases in Cyprus were an acceptable alternative to Cyprus as a base.
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