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1960's
The 1960's was a type period where man kind took a big leap forward in many different directions such as technology and human rights. -
Stockholm
Immunologist Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet shares Nobel Prize for Medicine with Briton Peter Medawar. -
Australian TV
Federal Government directs all future TV commercials to be made in Australia. -
Thalidomide
ThalidomideObstetrician Dr William McBride confirms the anti nausea drug thalidomide is linked to birth defects. -
Melbourne Bushfires
Bushfires rage through the Great Divide and the Dandenong Ranges on the edge of Melbourne, killing 8 people and destroying hundreds of houses. -
Telstar
telstarAT&T launches Telstar, the first satellite to carry TV broadcasts - broadcasts are now internationally relayed. -
Nuclear Test Ban
Nuke test banAustralia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. -
Land Rights
Land Rights Police evict the Mapoon community on Cape York Peninsula and raze community buildings to allow bauxite mining. This becomes the focus for the growing issues of aboriginal land rights. -
HMAS
HMASThe aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager, cutting it in half and killing 82 of the Voyager's officers -
Land speed record
Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre. -
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Beaumont children case
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Last to hang
Last to hangRonald Ryan is the last man to hang in Australia for the murder of a prison warder while escaping from Melbourne's Pentridge Jail. His execution would result in the abolition of the death penalty. -
Meckering's Destruction
EarthquakeThe town of Meckering destroyed by biggest earthquake yet recorded in Australia. The quake measured 6.9 on the Richter Scale. -
Man takes first steps on the Moon
First man on moon Neil Alden Armstrong born August 5, 1930 is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon.
