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Throughout the month of January heat waves kills 11 people in Central Australia and 13 people in Sydney
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The First every Answering Machine is created. It is seen as a breakthrough in technology as it allowed people to record messages to a telephone if the person was not able to get to the phone in time. It is invented by Dr. Kazuo Hashimoto and sold as a Automatic Telephone Answering Machine.
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Australia to sell wheat to Communist China
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The soviets have sent the first man into space and the Americans need a man in space, too.
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USSR was the first country to send a man into space.
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Kennedy wanted to have a man on the moon and back before the decade was over.
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Rod Laver wins Men's Singles tennis final.
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LAPD police sergeant Jack Clemmons received a call at 4:25 am from Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, proclaiming that Monroe was found dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. She was 36 years old
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Martin Luther King Jr. made the speech, "I have a Dream"
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Menzies becomes the first Party leader to make his policy speech on TV
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The first Civil Rights bill was passed to stop racial discrimination.
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President Johnson ordered bombing raids on North Vietnam and Americans begin protesting the war. (picture) A UH-1D helicopter piloted by Maj. Bruce P. Crandall climbs skyward after discharging a load of US infantrymen on a search and destroy mission.
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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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The first heart transplant was performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Year 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.
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An earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000.
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U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies from his injuries the next day.
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4:18 p.m., one of the biggest events of history happened. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, astronauts aboard. Neil Armstrong's famous speech for the historical steps "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
