Stilletos are widley popular at the time due to popular music
Communication
Australians have used the telephone as the first form of contact
Music
Classical music was popular
Hotels and theatres open for the first time on Anzac Day
Last Hobart tram runs
Hi Jinx, wins melbourne cup. Odds were 50 to 1
"Australian Ballet" is founded
"Four Corners" is premiered on ABC TV
NSW national team, wins Sheffield sheild
Australia to sell wheat to Communist China
Last electric tram service runs in Sydney
Constructions begin for Australian square. Said to be a 7 year building process
First Parkes Radiotelescope oppened by govenor general
Songs "i'm gonna knock on your door" by Eddie hodges ranked #1 for 1961
Woman fined for being "unsuitably dressed" wearing a bikini at Bondi Beach
Perth dubbed "city of lights", influenced by Atronaught John Glenn
Steve Irwin is born
Cahil Expressway is finally completed
Australia wins a total of 38 at commenwealth games
The Red Sales aerobatic team, flying Vampire jets, crashes in practice, killing six people
First production performed by Australian Ballet: Swan Lake
"Working The Man" by roy orbison is named #1 single for 1962
Council House, Perth is oppened
First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Ivan Skripov, is expelled as a spy
Short films are shot in australia, submitted at venice film festival
Beatles tour Australia
Brittish milliary nuclear testing grounds at maralinga is ceased
Australia becomes the first nation to endorse the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
John Carew Eccles is given Australian Of The Year award
Double Decker Trams are tested on sydney rail network
Mary Quant introduces mini skirt
Maquarie University is founded
Robert Vagg sets world record for men's marathon
First Issue of "The Australian" is printed, first nationwide newpaper
World Largest Concrete Arch is oppened
Queensland Government declares a state of emergency in an attempt to end an industrial dispute at Mt Isa mines.
Rolling stones tour australia
Dawn Frasier becomes youngest reciever of australian of the year award
Australian ballet finds succes overseas, receiving 49 curtain calls in total
Official Opening of captain cook bridge
First Hydroboil ferry is introduced in sydney
Prime Minister Menzies commits Australian troops to fight in Vietnam.
Donald Campbell's world land speed record attempt in Bluebird at Lake Eyre
Roma Mitchell is Australia's first woman judge, after her appointment to the South Australian Supreme Court Bench
The Beatles latest album "A hard day's night", topps charts
The first Australian conscripts fly out for Vietnam. Anti-conscription and anti-Vietnam War demonstrators could not get near the RAAF base at Richmond
The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies resigns after 16 straight years in office. Harold Holt succeeds him
Australia changes over to decimal currency
The Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna & Grant disappear from the suburb of Glenelg
Joern Utzon quits the construction of the Sydney Opera House
Australia's first satellite communications earth station opens at Carnarvon in WA
The first edition of the pop magazine Go-Set is published in Melbourne
John Urtzon rerited from work on the sydney opera house, dispite initial concept
Harry Chan elected first ethnic Chinese mayor
The Manchester United football team tours Australia.
The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service is established.
Australia Square Tower, Australia's first true skyscraper, is completed.
Ronald Ryan becomes last man hang, leads to abolition of the death penalty
First batch of students enter maquarie university
The postcode system of postal address coding is introduced throughout Australia
Australia unlinks the Australian dollar from British currency, when the British government makes a decision to devalue the pound sterling
Australia's first satellite, WRESAT, is launched on an American Redstone rocket from Woomera, South Australia
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
The Seekers are named Australians of the Year for 1967.
Boxer Lionel Rose beats Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo to become world bantamweight champion.
Three Australian journalists are killed by the Viet Cong in Saigon.
The town of Meckering, Western Australia, is badly damaged by an earthquake.
Mike Wenden wins his second gold medal at the Olympics for the 200 metres freestyle
Melbourne: Opening of the National Gallery of Victoria
Opening of musical Hair with controversial 30 second nudity scene
Sir Paul Hasluck becomes Governor-General of Australia after the retirement of Lord Casey.
NASA switches the main transmission feed of the Apollo 11 moon landing to Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Canberra, then Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, which then broadcasts the mission to the world.
Prime Minister John Gorton announces that a withdrawal of Australian Army troops from the Vietnam War would begin in 1970.
