Federal Government directs all future TV commercials to be made in Australia
Oral contraceptives are first sold in Australia
Australia to sell wheat to Communist China
The Credit Squeeze hits the car industry: GMH to dismiss 2,600 workers and on March 8, Ford sacks 980 workers, making a total of 2000 since the previous November
Sydney: Last tram runs from La Perousse to Randwick workshops
Ford sacks 980 workers, making a total of 2000 since the previous November
Sydney: Stephen Leslie Bradley sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of kidnap victim Graeme Thorne July 1960
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
Wimbledon: Rod Laver wins Men's Singles tennis final
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.
Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever man-made explosion.
The Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon along with 400 U.S. Personnel.
