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The Olympic Games were held in Rome
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American "U2" spy plane shot down over the USSR.
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Immunologist Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet shares Nobel Prize for Medicine with Briton Peter Medawar
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Crown-of-thorns starfish begins ravaging the Great Barrier Reef
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Australia to sell wheat to Communist China
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The soviets have sent the first man into space and the Americans need a man in space, too. The event came on May 5, 1961. Alan Shepard was sent to space in the "Freedom 7".
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Rod Laver wins Men's Singles tennis final
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Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach
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John Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth
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Australia tallest building opens, the 25-storey AMP building
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South Australia: Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre
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First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Ivan Skripov, is expelled as a spy
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Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre
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Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream" on August 28, 1963. More than 200,000 peaceful demonstrators came to Washington DC to demand equal rights for Black and Whites.
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was never sent to trial. While being moved by police to a different jail, a man named Jack Ruby shot Oswald. Who killed President Kennedy nobody knows for sure.
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Artist Norman Lindsay dies at 90.
