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Sir Robert suffers a small cerebral thrombosis when in London visiting
his daughter Heather and spends four and a half weeks in the London Clinic.
The press published photos of him coming down the steps on a walking
stick.
"I am not bad," he is reported as saying. "I am an old
man and getting tired." A W Martin, Robert Menzies: A Life. Vol 2 1944-1978, 1999 p 558. |
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Gorton Government,
January 9. Oil and gas
are discovered in Bass Strait. Population 12
million. Mounted police
charge 2,000 anti-Vietnam war demonstrators outside the American Consulate
in Melbourne. Commonwealth
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US civil rights
leader Martin Luther King is assassinated on April 4: The most successful
and powerful of American black leaders, he led black moderates in campaigning
for civil rights, preached non-aggression and adopted 'passive resistance'
tactics. In 1963 he told 200,000 marchers in Washington: "I have
a dream ... that one day this nation will rise up and live out its creed
- 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that men are created equal'."
He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. US Presidential
candidate Robert Kennedy is assassinated on June 6: Younger brother
of President John F Kennedy and US Attorney-General from 1961-64, he had
a special interest in promoting civil rights for blacks. First manned
spacecraft Apollo 8 journeys 384,000 kilometres to orbit the moon and
back. Antony Hewish
co-discovers (with Jocelyn Bell) pulsars: radio stars emitting regular
pulses of energy. He shares the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 with Sir
Martin Ryle, discoverer of the quasar. |
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