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The Eighty-fifth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1959, during the fifth and sixth years of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Seventeenth Census of the United States in 1950. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. ==Major events== * January 5, 1957: President Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in a special message to Congress * January 20, 1957: Inauguration of President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon for a second term * August 21, 1957: President Eisenhower announced a 2-year suspension of nuclear testing * August 28, 1957: Senator Strom Thurmond set a record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 *September 24, 1957: Little Rock Crisis: President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to provide safe passage into Central High School for the Little Rock Nine. * October 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth * October 21, 1957: The U.S. military sustained its first combat fatality in Vietnam * November 7, 1957: Gaither Report called for more American missiles and fallout shelters * November 25, 1957: President Eisenhower had a stroke * January 31, 1958: U.S. launched its first satellite, ''Explorer 1'' * October 1, 1958: NASA started operations 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「85th United States Congress」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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