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January Heat waves kills 24 in Australia
Throughout the month of January heat waves kills 11 people in Central Australia and 13 people in Sydney -
Birth of Ansafone
The First every Answering Machine is created. It is seen as a breakthrough in technology as it allowed people to record messages to a telephone if the person was not able to get to the phone in time. It is invented by Dr. Kazuo Hashimoto and sold as a Automatic Telephone Answering Machine. -
Trading takes place
Australia to sell wheat to Communist China -
First man in Space
The soviets have sent the first man into space and the Americans need a man in space, too. -
USSR Wins Space Race
USSR was the first country to send a man into space. -
First American in Space
Kennedy wanted to have a man on the moon and back before the decade was over. -
Wimbledon
Rod Laver wins Men's Singles tennis final. -
Marilyn Monroe Found Dead
LAPD police sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call at 4:25 am from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, proclaiming that Monroe was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. She was 36 years old -
"I have a dream" MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" -
Media getting involved with the Government
Menzies becomes the first Party leader to make his policy speech on TV -
New rights
The first Civil Rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination. -
This means War
President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam and Americans begin protesting the war. (picture) A UH-1D helicopter piloted by Maj. Bruce P. Crandall climbs skyward after discharging a load of US infantrymen on a search and destroy mission. -
Time for a change
The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him -
Bloody success
The first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa. -
MCMLXVIII
Year 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. -
Italy strucked
An earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. -
JFK assassination
U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day. -
Man walks on the MOON!
4:18 p.m., one of the biggest events of history happened. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, astronauts aboard. Neil Armstrong's famous speech for the historical steps "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
