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Canberra: Compulsory national service training for men ends
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Federal Government directs all future TV commercials to be made in Australia
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Sydney: Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach
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Melbourne: Busfhires rage through the Great Divide and the Dandenong Ranges on the edge of Melboune, killing 8 people and destroying hundreds of houses
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Perth: As Astronaut John Glenn circles the Earth, the city of Perth turns on its lights. "I can see the outline of a town and a very bright light just to the south of it." Glenn dubs Perth "The City of Lights"
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Perth: Philip Magalnir becomes the first Australian Aborigine to vote under the new Commonwealth electoral laws granting voting rights to Aborigines
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Australia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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The Beatles tour Australia.
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Sydney: The first hydrofoil ferry service begins
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London: Prime Minister Menzies declares that Australia is at war with Vietnam
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Australia changes over to decimal currency.
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90% of white Australians vote in referendum for proposal to count aborigines in the census and to allow the federal government to make special laws for them
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Portsea: Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found
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Canberra: John Grey Gorton sworn in as Australia's 19th Prime Minister after Harold's Holt's disappearance
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Melbourne: Police battle 3,000 Vietnam war protesters outside the US Consulate