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Atomic bomb
France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara desert. -
Ku Klux Klan
Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama. -
u-2 spu plane
Soviet Union shoot down U.S. U-2 spy plane. -
Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech "I have a dream"
n the speech he wanted to dissolved the solve the differences between black and white. -
Kennedy vs Nixon
Both candadites concidered the 60s as an era of oppurtunity for both economic and technological advancement. -
Firts Roman Catholic in office
John F Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President. He won by a slim margin of 100,000 votes. -
Mona Lisa
Mon Lisa is showed at The National Gallery in Washington, D.C. -
John F. Keneddy was assassinated
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, -
HMAS Voyager sinks
82 sailors died from this incident in Melbourne. -
Beatles Reach Australia
When we arrived in Sydney it was pissing down with rain. We got off the plane and they put The Beatles on the back of a flat-back truck so the crowd could see them. They were carrying umbrellas and wearing the capes made in Hong Kong. The driver was doing one mile an hour, and John kept leaning over and saying, 'Faster, faster!' but he wouldn't go any faster. I was saying, 'Go faster - it's pouring down,' and he said, 'These kids have been waiting here for twenty-four hours to see these guys.' -
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved. -
Artificial birth
Protestant Episcopal Church allowed the artificial birth. -
Robert Menzies
Retire as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. -
Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents
Australian Currency is changed from Pounds, Shilling and penns into Dollars and Cents -
Ronald Ryan
Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia. -
Black Tuesday bushfires
This devasted large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania; 62 people were killed. -
France
French Somaliland votes to continue association with France. -
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt
Prime MInister Harold Holt disappeard while swimming at Cheviot Beach. -
John Gorton
John Gorton replaces John McEwen as Prime Minister -
Martin Luther King is assassinated
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Tax
A bill adding a 10 percent surcharge to income taxes and reducing government spending is signed by President Johnson. -
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm was elected America's first black woman to Congress. -
Apollo 11 landed on the moon
July 20, 1969, 4:18 p.m. 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." -
Australian federal election
1969 John Gorton reelected as Prime Minister.
