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France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara desert.
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Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama.
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Soviet Union shoot down U.S. U-2 spy plane.
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n the speech he wanted to dissolved the solve the differences between black and white.
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Both candadites concidered the 60s as an era of oppurtunity for both economic and technological advancement.
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John F Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic President. He won by a slim margin of 100,000 votes.
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Mon Lisa is showed at The National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas,
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82 sailors died from this incident in Melbourne.
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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.'
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved.
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Protestant Episcopal Church allowed the artificial birth.
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Retire as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.
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Australian Currency is changed from Pounds, Shilling and penns into Dollars and Cents
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Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.
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This devasted large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania; 62 people were killed.
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French Somaliland votes to continue association with France.
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Prime MInister Harold Holt disappeard while swimming at Cheviot Beach.
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John Gorton replaces John McEwen as Prime Minister
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Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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A bill adding a 10 percent surcharge to income taxes and reducing government spending is signed by President Johnson.
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Shirley Chisholm was elected America's first black woman to Congress.
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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."
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1969 John Gorton reelected as Prime Minister.
