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The 1960 olympic games has kicked off in Rome
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Olympic games ends in Rome.
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Flintstones was the first cartoon to ever be aired on TV
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West Indies had run out the last Australian batsmen to make the test a draw and the first one.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first man to go to space in a Vostok 1 spacecraft.
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Rod Laver wins mens singles against Chuck McKinley at Wimbledon
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Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of barituate
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Margaret Smith becomes the first Australian woman to win the Women's Singles tennis championship
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas; two days later, his accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
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Prime Minister Menzies commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam
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The ALP deletes "White Australia" from its immigration policy
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The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him
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Australia coverts to decimal currency
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Prime Minister Harold Holt disappears while swimming in heavy surf south of Melbourne. His body is never found
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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.
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Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins fly on board Apollo 11 to be the first humans on the moon.
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Prime Minister Gorton announces phased withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam
