-
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.
