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Petrol rationing ends
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Sydney: Actor Chips Rafferty announces the formation of a company to make films in Australia
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Canberra: Menzies introduces legislation to outlaw the Communist Party
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Western Australia: 28 people die in an ANA Skymaster aircraft crash
Western Australia: 28 people die in an ANA Skymaster aircraft crash in Australia's worst air disaster at York, southeast of Perth -
Australian troops to be sent to the Korean War
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Commonwealth police raid Communist Party
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Melbourne: Prostitute Jean Lee to hang at Pentridge with 2 of her pimps after being convicted of the killing of SP bookmaker
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Communist Party ban declared unconstitutional
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Melbourne: The latest women's fashions are short dresses with full skirts over stiff petticoats
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Alice Springs: Official opening of School of the Air
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canberra: Prime Minister Menzies gives report to cabinet on known and suspected communists in the public service
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Sister Elizabeth Kenny, infantile paralysis (polio) therapist, dies
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Adelaide: Australia retains the Davis Cup after defeating the US
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sydney: 10 killed and 137 injured in train crash at Berala
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Joan Sutherland makes her debut with the Royal Opera Company at Covent Garden with a small role in The Magic Flute
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Korean War end after 3 years. Australian casualties number 258 killed in action, 977 wounded and 4 missing, presumed killed
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Britain explodes the first of 2 atomic bombs at Woomera,
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Oil is discovered in the Exmouth Gulf off the coast of WA
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Queen Elizabeth II arrives with Prince Philip for Royal Tour
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Australian flag is raised at the new Mawson base in Princess Elizabeth Land in Antarctica, making it the world's most southern human settlement
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Finland: John Landy runs mile in world record time of 3 mins 58 secs at Turku
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NSW hotels stay open until 10pm. NSW is the 4th Australian state to adopt extended hours.
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Melbourne: Barry Humphries' character Edna Everage makes her stage debut