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Olympic Games
The 1960 olympic games has kicked off in Rome -
Olympic Games ends
Olympic games ends in Rome. -
Flintstones
Flintstones was the first cartoon to ever be aired on TV -
First tied test
West Indies had run out the last Australian batsmen to make the test a draw and the first one. -
First man to go to space
Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go to space in a Vostok 1 spacecraft. -
Rod Laver wins Wimbledon
Rod Laver wins mens singles against Chuck McKinley at Wimbledon -
Marilyn Monroe dies
Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of barituate -
Margaret Smith wins Wimbledon
Margaret Smith becomes the first Australian woman to win the Women's Singles tennis championship -
Assassination of JFK
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas; two days later, his accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby. -
Australia fights in vietman war
Prime Minister Menzies commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam -
White Australia policy gone
The ALP deletes "White Australia" from its immigration policy -
Menzies steps down
The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him -
Decimal Currency
Australia coverts to decimal currency -
Harold Holt dissappears
Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found -
Martin Luther King is dead
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. -
Men on the moon
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins fly on board Apollo 11 to be the first humans on the moon. -
Time to come home
Prime Minister Gorton announces phased withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam
