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4th
Do You Love Me?
Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
11th
I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
18th
I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
25th
I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
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The Beach Boys tour Australia as part of the Surfside
'64 tour, with Roy Orbison, Paul & Paula and The Surfers.
Local support band is The Joye Boys.
Channel 7 in Sydney premieres
the shortlived "Surf Sound", a new pop show dedicated
to the current surf music craze.
Major overseas
releases:
Bob Dylan - The Times They
Are A-Changin'
The Hollies - Stay With
The Hollies
1 "Top
of the Pops" premieres on BBC TV, with Jimmy Saville hosting.
3
The Beatles appear on American TV for the first time in a short film-clip
broadcast on The Jack Parr Show.
6
The Rolling Stones begin their first headlining tour of the UK, supported by
The Ronettes.
7
Cyril Davies, one of the founding fathers of the British blues boom,
dies in London from leukemia, aged only 32. Davies began playing music
professionally in the early 1950's, then took up the harmonica after
teaming up with Alexis Korner in the mid-1950's as an acoustic blues duo.
In the early 1960's they recruited drummer Charlie Watts and bassist Jack
Bruce, electrified their instruments and named themselves Blues
Incorporated. In 1962 they opened up the Ealing Club in London which
attracted many blues enthusiasts including: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Brian Jones, Eric Burdon and Rod Stewart, many of whom got their starts
sitting in with the band. When Charlie Watts left Blues Incorporated he
was replaced by Ginger Baker. Blues Incorporated split up in 1963 and Davies
put together The Cyril Davies All-Stars, which included Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy
Page and Jeff Beck. They recorded four songs for Pye Records. Davies taught
harmonica to both Mick Jagger and Brian Jones. After he died, his band was
taken over by Long John Baldry.
9
The Ronettes enter the US charts with their single Baby I Love You.
11
Billboard magazine publishes its first country music chart and
Johnny Cash makes history with his LP King Of Fire -
The Best of Johnny Cash which becomes the first album to hold the #1
spot in the new chart.
15 The
legendary Whisky A Go-Go club opens on Sunset Strip in
Los Angeles.
29 The
RAAF takes delivery of its first two Mirage fighter-bombers
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I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
8th
I Want To Hold Your Hand
The Beatles
15th
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
22nd
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
29th
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
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Major overseas
releases:
Bob Dylan - The Times They
Are A-Changin'
3
The first double-decker carriages
begin trial runs on the Sydney suburban rail network
8 The
Beatles get a riotous reception at Kennedy Airport, New York
at the start of their first American tour
9 The Beatles make their landmark first live TV appearance in the USA. Their
performance on the Ed Sullivan Show electrifies fans across the country
and is watched by a record American TV audience estimated at 73 million.
10 82
sailors are killed when HMAS Voyager is accidentally rammed
and sunk by the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne during
night exercises off Jervis Bay, on the NSW south coast. It is
Australia's worst peacetime naval disaster.
- Bob Dylan's third LP The Times They Are A-Changin' is
released in the United States. The title track soon becomes one of the
anthems of the 1960s.
- A London magistrate rules that John Cleland's 1757 novel
Fanny Hill is obscene and orders that all copies be confiscated.
12 Sir
Arthur Upfield, author of the "Bony" detective
novels, dies aged 73
23 The
Beatles are mobbd by fans on their return to Britain from their
first American tour
25 The
Royal Commission into the Voyager disaster opens
- Sydney's Lyceum Theatre is destroyed by
fire
- Cassius Clay takes world heavyweight boxing title from Sonny Liston.
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7th
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
14th
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
21st
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
28th
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
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Sydney radio station 2SM
signs a contract with Brian Epstein, giving DJ Bob Rogers
exclusive rights to interview The Beatles and broadcast highlights
of each day of their Australian tour.
Teenager's Weekly features photos of Beach Boys
lead singer Mike Love and a Sydney girl with whom he had
struck up a relationship with during the group's January tour.
A split in the Communist Party
of Australia leads to the creation of the pro-Maoist Communist
Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)
Major Overseas
Releases:
The Animals - Baby Let Me
Take You Home
The Beach Boys - Fun, Fun,
Fun
The Beatles - Can't Buy Me
Love
6 American
boxer Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali after
converting to Islam.
10 Eminent
Australian jurist Sir Percy Spender is elected President
of the International Court of Justice
20 Famed
Irish writer Brendan Behan dies
27 A massive
earthquake -- the largest ever recorded in North America -- hits
Alaska. The quake and devastates Anchorage and surrounding regions,
and the tsunamis that follow cause death and destruction as far
away as Hawaii.
28 British
pirate station Radio Caroline begins transmission
31
The Beatles hold all top six places on the Aussie singles
chart:
#1 - I Saw Her Standing There
#2 - Love Me Do
#3 - Roll Over Beethoven
#4 - All My Loving
#5 - She Loves You
#6 - I Want to Hold Your Hand.
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War Of The Worlds
The Atlantics
Peace of Mind / Don't say goodbye
The Bee Gees
Let's stomp the Australian way / Lucky
me Tony Brady
You make me happy / Hokey Pokey Stomp
Jimmy Hannan
One Road/Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Jimmy Little
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4th
All My Loving (EP)
The Beatles
11th
All My Loving (EP)
The Beatles
18th
All My Loving (EP)
The Beatles
25th
All My Loving (EP)
The Beatles
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Pan-Pacific
Promotions presents the first tour by 'Merseybeat'
groups to visit Australia. The package tour which includes Gerry
& The Pacemakers, Dusty Springfield, Brian
Poole & the Tremoloes and Gene Pitney, supported
by Johnny O'Keefe.
Dr Hanna Neumann is named Professor of the Department of
Pure Mathematics at the ANU
The Menzies government refuses to ratify the International Labor
Organisation convention on equal pay for women.
The editors of Sydney satirical
magazine Oz - Richard Neville, Richard
Walsh and Martin Sharp - are charged with printing an obscene
publication. The charges stem in part from the famous Oz #6
cover, which depicts Neville and two friends pretending to urinate
into a recessed wall fountain created by sculptor Tom Bass,
which is set into the wall of the P&O building in Chifley
Square, Sydney.
ANC leader Nelson Mandela
and others are put on trial in for their opposition to South
Africa's racist apartheid regime.
8
The Moonie-Brisbane oil pipeline opens,
inaugurating production from Australia's first commercial
oil field
12 Rev.
Ted Noffs opens The Wayside Chapel in Kings Cross, Sydney
13 Tickets
for The Beatles' Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane concerts
go on sale, immediately breaking the previous sales record set
by Johnny Ray in 1954.
21 BBC
2 begins transmission in the UK
22 The
1964 New York World's Fair opens at Flushing
Meadow, in Queens, NY. The Fair runs for a total of 360 days,
from April 22 to October 18, 1964 and from April 21 to October
17, 1965, and is held in conjunction 300th anniversary of the
surrender of New York (then the the Dutch city of New Amsterdam)
to British forces under the command of the Duke of York in 1664.
The Fair features 140 pavilions on 646 acres, on the old site
of the 1939-40 New York's World Fair. Although the majority of
the pavilions are United States commerical companies, there are
also 21 state pavilions and 36 foreign pavilions.
The fair's theme is "Man in a Shrinking
Globe in an Expanding Universe." The fair has not been officially
sanctioned by the Bureau of International Expositions, since
world's fairs are limited to one year runs, the BIE had already
given their blessing to Seattle's 1962 fair and only one U.S.
fair was allowed per decade. Consequently many European and Eastern
Bloc countries boycott it, although countries in Asia, South
America, the Mid-East and Africa are represented. U.S. industry,
led by General Electric, Ford, General Motors, Crysler, I.B.M.,
Bell Telephone, U.S. Steel, Pepsi Cola, Dupont, RCA and Westinghouse
spends lavishly, erecting handsome pavilions and filling them
with entertainment that they hope will boost their image with
consumers. In all more than a billion dollars is invested.
[Information
and image ©1997 Jeffrey Stanton]
24 Melbourne
woman Judy Hanrahan becomes the first female teller appointed
by the Bank of NSW since WWII.
27 Sir
Garfield Barwick resigns as Minister for External Affairs
to take up his appointment as the new Chief Justice of the High
Court of Australia
29 J.B.
(Jack) Renshaw becomes NSW Premier after the retirement of
R.J. Heffron
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2nd All
My Loving (EP)
The Beatles
9th
A World Without Love
Peter & Gordon
16th
A World Without Love
Peter & Gordon
23rd
Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles
30th
My Boy Lollipop
Millie
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Australian Army engineers
are sent to Sabah in Malaysia
2
The Labor government led by Eric Reece is re-elected
in Tasmania. Reece is later nicknamed "Electric Eric" by conservationists,
because of his blinkered advocacy of massive hydroelectric schemes planned
for Tasmania's wilderness area, including
Lake Pedder.
17
Bernard "Midget" Farrelly wins the first World
Surfboard Championship at Manly Beach
18 Mods
and Rockers clash in seaside resorts all around the UK
28
Actress and singer Judy Garland is hospitalised in a
coma in Hong Kong after reportedly suffering a heart attack.
The previous week Garland had been blasted by the Australian press
after a shambolic concert performance in Melbourne and she appeared
in a confused state during a at Melbourne airport press conference
just before her departure.
- Legislation is enacted authorising
Commonwealth aid for science education for both private and public schools.
The controversial move revives government assistance to Church
schools.
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1964
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6th
My Guy
Mary Wells
13th
Poison Ivy
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
20th
Poison Ivy
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
27th
You're My World
Cilla Black
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Major Overseas Releases:
The Animals - House of the
Rising Sun
Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy
Diddy
2 The
Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) is founded.
3 During a photo shoot in London Ringo Starr collapses (suffering
from tonsillitis and pharyngitis) and has to be hospitalized.
The Beatles are scheduled to leave on a world tour (including
Australia) the next morning, and it is too late to cancel, so
Brian Epstein and George Martin quickly choose drummer Jimmy
Nicol as Ringo's stand-in.
4 The
British Blue Streak rocket is successfully fired from
the Woomera rocket range in South Australia.
8 Australia
increases the number of Army "advisers" in Vietnam
to 80, and commits them to active service.
10 The Beatles arrive
in Australia from Hong Kong. After an unscheduled fuel stop in Darwin
(where 400 fans are still on hand to greet them) The Beatles fly on to
Sydney. They arrive in the middle of a heavy downpour, but are required
to appear in an open-top truck in the pouring rain to greet fans.
12 The
Beatles arrive in Adelaide to play
their first two concerts in Australia, and are greeted by the
largest crowd ever in their touring career. Estimates put the
crowd at anywhere between 300,000 and 500,000 people. They play
their first show at Centennial Hall with Jimmy Nicol filling
in for Ringo Starr.
- Macquarie University is founded. The first graduates are accepted in 1967
13
The Beatles perform two more shows at Centennial Hall. The two
shows on this day are drummer Jimmy Nicol's last as a "temporary
Beatle".
14 ANC
leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment
for treason.
15 The
Beatles arrive in Melbourne and are reunited with Ringo. That
night the group perform two shows at Festival Hall, Melbourne.
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Beatles perform two shows at Festival Hall, Melbourne.
- Architect Joern Utzon announces that
the Sydney Opera House will cost £17.4 million -- five
times the original estimate.
- Comedian Lenny Bruce goes on trial for
obscenity in New York.
17 The
Beatles perform two shows at Festival Hall, Melbourne,
Australia. The second show is filmed for an hour-long television
program, The Beatles Sing for Shell.
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Beatles return to Sydney and perform two shows each day over
three days at Sydney Stadium, Rushcutter's Bay. A sound
technician hired by Sydney's Daily Telegraph to attend
the first concert on 19 June records sound levels as high as
114 decibels from the screaming crowd.
21 The
Beatles leave Sydney for concerts in New Zealand.
- Three young civil rights workers go
missing in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Michael Schwerner, 24,
Andrew Goodman, 20, both from New York and James Chaney, 22,
from Meridian, Mississippi, are all members of the Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE) dedicated to non-violent direct action against racial
discrimination. An FBI investigation reveals that they had been
murdered by Ku Klux Klan sympathisers; their bodies were then buried in a
dam wall and were not found until the FBI received an anonymous tipoff six
weeks later.
On June 4 the three young men had been stopped by County Deputy Sheriff
Cecil Price on traffic charges while driving to Meridian, Mississippi.
They were detained briefly and then released, but as they drove away, at
least a dozen members of the Ku Klux Klan ambushed their car. Schwerner
and Goodman were taken from the car and shot dead on the spot, but an
autopsy later revealed that Cheney (who was black) was tortured for some
time before his death -- he had been savagely beaten, had both arms
broken, then was shot at least three times, including one shot through the
groin and a fatal shot in the back. They were then buried beneath a partly
completed 15-foot earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their bodies
are discovered on August 4 after an anonymous
informant tips off the FBI to their location. None
of the twelve men suspected of being involved in the killings is ever
charged with murder but several are eventually convicted on federal
conspiracy charges after a controversial trial in
October 1967.
27 Victoria's
Liberal government, led by Sir Henry Bolte, is re-elected
with a majority in both houses.
29 After
shows in New Zealand, The Beatles return to Australia
to perform two shows at Festival Hall, Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia.
30 The
Beatles perform their last two Australian shows at Festival
Hall, Brisbane, the final performances on their world tour.
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Johnny Devlin
Poison Ivy / Broken Things
Blue Day / You Don't Love Me (re-release)
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
I'll Be In Love With You / Tell Her That
The Flies
Never like this / What'd I say
Del Juliana
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4th
You're My World
Cilla Black
11th
You're My World
Cilla Black
18th
You're My World
Cilla Black
25th
A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles
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American electronics engineer
Robert Moog begins work on the first of two prototypes of his
modular electronic music
synthesiser, built for and in collaboration with compposer Herbert Deutsch.
Major overseas releases:
The Beach Boys - I Get Around,
Shut Down Vol.2
The Beatles - A Hard Day's
Night (album and single)
Marianne Faithfull - As Tears
Go By
The Zombies - She's Not There
1 TV station TCN 9 (Sydney) broadcasts The Beatles
Sing For Shell from 7:30-8:30 pm, which includes footage
of their performance from the Melbourne Festival Hall on Jun
15.
2 President
Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act in a bid to continue
the reforms initiated by Kennedy.
6 Princess
Margaret attends the London premiere of The Beatles' first film,
A Hard Day's Night
15 The
first edition of The Australian is published in Canberra.
It is Australia's first national daily newspaper, published by
Rupert Murdoch's News Limited.
17 Sir Donald Campbell sets a new land speed record on
Lake Eyre in his jet-propelled car "Bluebird"
19 Thirty-four
RAAF personnel leave for Vietnam to fly and maintain Caribou
transport aircraft
31 The unmanned
American lunar probe
Ranger
7 successfully transmits the first close-up photographs of the
moon. Ranger sends over 4300 images in the final 17 minutes of its
flight, before crashing into the lunar surface.
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Country music singer Jim Reeves dies at age 39 in a plane crash
near Nashville, Tennessee, along with his manager, Dean Manuel. Reeves'
hits included Welcome to My World and He'll Have to Go.
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A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles
8th
A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles
15th
A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles
22nd
House Of The Rising Sun
The Animals
29th
House Of The Rising Sun
The Animals
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The Tasman Bridge across
the Derwent River opens in Hobart.
Work is completed on re-erecting
Sydney's GPO clock tower. It had been dismantled during WWII
because of fears that it could be used as a navigation landmark
for Japanese bombers.
Major overseas
releases:
Bob Dylan - Another Side
Of Bob Dylan
Herman's Hermits - I'm Into
Something Good
The Kinks - You Really Got
Me
The Rolling Stones - Five
By Five EP
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The bodies of three young civil rights workers, who have been missing for
six weeks, are
found buried in a partially constructed dam near Philadelphia,
Mississippi. [<< 4 June]
12 James
Bond author Ian Fleming dies
18 The Beatles arrive in San Francisco on their triumphant second
American tour.
- The International Olympic Committee bans
South Africa from competing in the Olympic Games because
of its apartheid policies.
20 Australia
joins 12 other nations in the INTELSAT satellite communications
consortium
24
The Australian Workers Union begins
industrial action at Mt Isa in Queensland over a wage dispute.
Over the next few months it will escalate into one of the bitterest
disputes in Australia's industrial history.
26
The
Royal Commission into the Voyager disaster
finds that the collision was caused by Voyager
veering off course and into the path of the Melbourne.
28 Bob
Dylan and The Beatles meet for the first time in The
Beatles' suite at the Hotel Delmonico in New York, where Dylan
introduces The Beatles to marijuana. Paul McCartney declares
that he is "really thinking" for the first time and
asks their road manager Neil Aspinall to write down everything
he says.
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The Bee Gees
Mashed Potato / Don't Cha Know
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
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A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles
12th
I Should Have Known Better / If I Fell
The Beatles
19th
I Should Have Known Better / If I Fell
The Beatles
26th
I Should Have Known Better / If I Fell
The Beatles
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St George wins the Rugby League Grand Final
Melbourne wins the VFL Grand Final
Major overseas
releases:
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday
Morning, 3 AM
The Supremes - Baby Love
11
The Beatles agree to play a concert in Jacksonville, Florida only if the
audience is guaranteed to be unsegregated.
17
In the wake of the
Voyager Royal Commission, Capt
R.J. Robertson, commander of the HMAS Melbourne, resigns
from the Navy
23 Sydney
magistrate Gerald Locke SM rules that the satirical magazine Oz is an obscene publication.
Editors Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp
are sentenced to six months' hard labour, but are released on bail pending an appeal.
27
The Warren Commission of inquiry into the assassination of U.S. President
John F. Kennedy announces its controversial findings; the Commission decides
that alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and unaided, that he was not
part of a conspiracy, that there was no evidence of any conspiracy to kill Kennedy,
and that Oswald's murder by Dallas club owner Jack Ruby was also not part of any
conspiracy.
28
A British radio survey shows that pirate station
Radio Caroline is attracting more listeners than the BBC.
- legendary screen comedian and musician
Harpo Marx, 75, dies in Los Angeles after
undergoing open heart surgery.
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3rd I
Should Have Known Better / If I Fell
The Beatles
10th
Have I The Right
The Honeycombs
17th
Have I The Right
The Honeycombs
24th She's
A Mod
Ray Columbus & The Invaders
31st She's
A Mod
Ray Columbus & The Invaders
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Singer Johnny Chester
hosts a new ABC TV show called Teen Scene, which also
features his backing group The Chessmen as the house band.
Robert Moog shows the prototype
of his new electronic synthesiser at the American Audio Engineering
Society Convention.
Major overseas
releases:
James Brown - Out Of Sight
The Animals - The Animals
The Kinks - All Day And All
Of The Night, The Kinks
Martha & The Vandellas -
Dancing In The Street
The Supremes - Where Did Our
Love Go?
The Beach Boys - Beach
Boys Concert
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The Missing Links make a promotional appearance
in Newcastle, and play a short set outside H.G. Palmer's showroom
at 297 Hunter St at 12:30pm, before being moved off the footpath
by police. That evening they pay at the Tyrell Hall.
2 Sydney's
newest north-south crossing, the Gladesville Bridge over the Parramatta
River, is opened by Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent.
13
FBI agents arrest eighteen men in connection with the murders of three
civil rights workers in Mississippi on June 21.
However Mississippi prosecutors (acting on instructions from racist
officials in the state government) refuse to take the case, citing lack of
evidence, forcing federal authorities to proceed with federal charges of
conspiracy and violations of the victims' civil rights.
15
Leonid Brezhnev takes over from the ousted Nikita Krushchev as Premier
of the USSR and leader of the Communist Party.
- International tensions escalate when China
test detonates its first atomic weapon
16 the British Labour Party
wins the British general election.
18 The
first season of the 1964-65 New York World's Fair closes [<<
22/4/64]. The Fair's two year run is a moderate public relations
success but a financial flop. Predictions of 70 million visitors
over the two seasons, prove unreasonable and at end of the first
season, attendance is 25% below projections and the budget is
US$10 million in the red. After the fair's bland and dull fun
zone fails to attract patrons, better entertainment is added,
but it does little to help, although there is a late surge of
visitors just before end of the second season in October 1965.
20 The
Australian police drama Homicide premieres on the
Seven Network
22 French
author and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre rejects his Nobel
Prize for Literature
23 Pat
Mackie, leader of a union faction involved in the bitter Mt
Isa Mines dispute, is sacked on the eve of a vital mass meeting.
24 American
civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jnr is awarded the
1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
26
Notorious Perth serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke is executed at Fremantle
Prison; he is the last person to be hanged in Western Australia. For several years before his capture in 1963, Cooke terrorised the city with a spree of shotgun shootings, at least
10 attempted hit-and-run killings, and numerous attacks on women
in their homes. Although convicted and executed for one of these
killings, there was strong evidence that Cooke was responsible
for at least two others and possibly more. Minutes before his
hanging, Cooke swore that he alone was responsible for the murders
of two young women. Jillian MacPherson Brewer, 24, heiress
to the MacRobertsons confectionery fortune, was murdered in her
flat, and Rosemary Anderson, 17, had been run down and
killed while walking home after an argument with her boyfriend.
Despite this and other repeated and detailed confessions about
the crimes, including details only the murderer could have known,
Cooke's evidence was not believed by judges and led to the rejection
of appeals by the two Perth men, John Button and Daryl
Beamish, who had been wrongly charged, convicted and gaoled for the
two crimes. Button served five years and Beamish fifteen before
being released.
27 A huge
oil fire damages Mobil's Hunter's Hill fuel depot
30 Australian
and New Zealand troops stationed in Malaysia capture a
small force of Indonesian infiltratators.
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Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
Turn Around Look At Me / Theme From "The
Travels of Jamie McPheeters"
Barry Gibb & The Bee Gees
Jaywalker / Pathfinder
The Blue Jays
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7th She's A Mod
Ray Columbus & The Invaders
14th When You Walk In The Room
The Searchers
21st Ask Me / Ain't That Loving You Baby
Elvis Presley
28th Leader Of The Pack
The Shangri-Las
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The Seekers' I'll Never Find Another You
reaches No.1 in Australia and the UK and #4 in the USA.
Major overseas
releases:
The Bach Boys - When I Grow
Up To Be A Man, Christmas Album
The Beatles - I Feel Fine
The Hollies - In The Hollies
Style
The Rolling Stones - Little
Red Rooster
3 Polo Prince wins the Melbourne Cup
10 Prime
Minister Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory
military service, commonly known as National Service.
All able-bodied Australian men aged 20 will be liable to conscription
by a birth-date ballot, and will have to serve two years in any
location. The move is a major step in escalating Australia's
military support for the USA's undeclared war in Vietnam.
11 The
Mavis Bramston Show premieres on ATN 7 in Sydney. The show
originally airs only in Sydney and Newcastle, but is relayed
to other cities in the following months.
14 Mt
Isa Mines shuts down its copper smelter because of continuing
industrial trouble.
15 The
Missing Links play at a benefit at the Sydney University Theatre,
to raise money for the OZ defence appeal. The benefit also features the
cast of the Mavis Bramston Show performing a send-up of the folks
staple 'Puff The Magic Dragon', called "Poof The Tragic Queen",
and actor Leonard Teale reciting a "surfie" version of
Banjo Patterson's Clancy Of The Overflow. A few days before the
benefit they appear on the ABC's People program performing two
songs, Untrue and Route 66.
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The Aztecs
I just don't like to be alone / Love and
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Bryan Davies
I Sure Know A Lot About Love / Me You Gotta
Teach
Tony Worsley & The Fabulous Blue Jays
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Leader Of The Pack
The Shangri-Las
12th
I Feel Fine
The Beatles
19th
I Feel Fine
The Beatles
26th
I Feel Fine
The Beatles
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The appeal case against the
conviction of the editors of Oz is heard in Sydney.
Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record
at Lake Dumbleyung, WA, in the hydroplane Bluebird
The number of American "military
advisers" in Vietnam increases to 23,000
Sydney yacht Freya
wins the Sydney To Hobart Yacht Race
Major overseas
releases:
The Beach Boys - Christmas
Album
The Beatles - Beatles For
Sale
Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh
Gerry & The Pacemakers -
Ferry Cross The Mersey
The Kinks - Kinksize Session
EP
The Temptations - My Girl
The Yardbirds - Five Live
Yardbirds
6 Dr Martin
Luther King preaches a sermon in St
Paul's Cathedral, London
10 Dr
Martin Luther King receives the Nobel Peace Prize at the award
ceremony in Stockholm.
21 Britain's
House of Commons votes for the abolition of capital punishment.
10 The
Queensland government declares a state of emergency in an attempt
to end the Mt Isa Mines dispute
11 Easybeats guitarist Harry Vanda
marries; in the evening The Easybeats meet future manager Mike Vaughan
at a dance in the the northern Sydney suburb of Hornsby.
16 Melbourne's
La Trobe University is founded; the first undergraduates
are admitted in March 1967
24 Vietcong
guerillas stage a daring car-bomb attack in the heart of Saigon,
killing two American servicemen and wounding fifty-two others
27 Australia's
first offshore oil well is "spudded" in the
Gippsland Basin of Bass Strait
31 The
Missing Links play at a New Years
Eve dance in Katoomba. |
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Over The Rainbow
/ That I Love
Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs |
