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