Canberra: Compulsory national service training for men ends
Federal Government directs all future TV commercials to be made in Australia
Sydney: Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach
Melbourne: Busfhires rage through the Great Divide and the Dandenong Ranges on the edge of Melboune, killing 8 people and destroying hundreds of houses
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"
Perth: Philip Magalnir becomes the first Australian Aborigine to vote under the new Commonwealth electoral laws granting voting rights to Aborigines
Australia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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The Beatles tour Australia.
Sydney: The first hydrofoil ferry service begins
London: Prime Minister Menzies declares that Australia is at war with Vietnam
Australia changes over to decimal currency.
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
Portsea: Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found
Canberra: John Grey Gorton sworn in as Australia's 19th Prime Minister after Harold's Holt's disappearance
Melbourne: Police battle 3,000 Vietnam war protesters outside the US Consulate