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Start of the decade
It was a new year and a new decade which meant a change in the way things were currently going -
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The year of 1960
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atom bomb
france tested the 1st atomic bomb in the sahara desert. -
8th Winter Olympic games
This Olympic was held in Squaw Valley, California -
Indonesia's parliament
President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament -
Authur Calwell
Today was the day Authur Calwell became the leader of the Labout Party -
Weather
The 1st Weather satillite was launched into space -
Peugeot Kidnapping
The heir of Peugeot was kidnapped was was exchanged for 300, 000 dolars. -
Nigeria
Nigeria beomes part of the commonwealth -
China
Typhoon Mary in china killed around 1600 peole -
Plane crash
In Queensland at Mackay there was a plane crash which killed 29 people -
Graeme Kidnapping
The son of a rich person who had just won the lottery had been kidnapped and demanded an amount of money be exchanged over. When money was not exchanged the kid was found dead in a wrapped rug. This was the first Kidnapping in Australia. -
Independence
Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta & Niger declare independence -
Hijacking
The first Hijacking that happened in the world happened on an Australian Airline (not quantas) -
Prime Minister
In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world's 1st woman PM -
Niger
NIger becomes independant form France -
Space
1st photograph bounced off a satellite -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy avers he does not speak for the Roman Catholic Church, and neither does the Church speak for him. -
Dam!
The Warragamba dam is opened in New South Wales -
Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in -
Nobel Prize
Date is incorrect only thing known is, The Nobel Prize was won in 1960 by a man named Frank Macfarlane Burnet.