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Judy Cassab's portrait of Margo Lewers wins the Archibald Prize, this year, (actual date unknown)
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Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
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The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty.
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The first student intake at Macquarie University this month, (actual day not given)
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– Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.
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Black Tuesday bushfires in Tasmania
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NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.
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Mazenod College in Victoria, Australia opens
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La Trobe University officially opens.
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Sought fundinf for 100 million dollars to commence improving Gordon Power Scheme.
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The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights. it gave aboriginals the right to be included in the census.
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The Australian five dollar bill went into circulation.
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ATV0 (channel 10) broadcasts the first colour television program in Australia when it televises the horse racing from Pakenham, Victoria.
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The novel Picnic at Hanging Rock was released sometime this year.
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Postcodes introduced throughout Australia
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Melbourne's La Mama Theatre opens
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The NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service is established
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The song "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" sung by Johnny Farnham was released this month.
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Australia's first satellite, WRESAT, is launched on an American Redstone rocket from Woomera, South Australia.[33]
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Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne, he was never found.
