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Victor Harbor High Old Scholars
The Sixties
Inventions at this time
1960 Ultrasound scanner
1960 Kangaroo Crane
1965 Wine Cask
1965 Inflatable escape Slide
Wiltshire stay sharp knife
Plastic lenses
Events of the sixties
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Man on the Man
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The Pill
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The Beatles
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Rolling Stones
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Assassination of President US
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J F Kennedy
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Flower Power
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Rosa Parks
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Civil Rights Movement in US
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Australian Aboriginal people declared Human
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Assassination of Martin Luther King
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Cuban missile crisis
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Vietnam War
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Woodstock
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Feminism
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Commonwealth Games
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Elvis Presley
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"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" / "I Gotta Know"
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"Just a Closer Walk with Thee"
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"What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?"
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"She's My Baby" / "Own True Self"
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"Swingin' School" / "Ding-A-Ling"
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"I Found a New Love" / "Defenceless"
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"Come on and Take My Hand" / "Don't You Know"
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"Stuck on You" / "Fame and Fortune"
Australia in the 1960s
They campaigned for independence and equality of women in the workplace, fairer wages, a free accessible system of education, and the recognition of and a struggle for rights of Indigenous Australians. ... The year 1966 saw the first visit to Australia by a US president Lyndon Baines Johnston.
The late Eddie Mabo
Everyday Life in the Sixties: For Some
Sport in the 60s
Sport in the 1960s. Australia excelled in international sport throughout most of the 1960s, and local participation rates were high. Tennis and football turned professional, and television changed the way Australians watched sport.
The Media
Conscription for the Vietnam War 1964
Vietnam War. In 1964 compulsory national service for 20-year-old males was introduced under the National Service Act 1964. ... In March 1966, the government announced that national servicemen would be sent to South Vietnam to fight in units of the Australian Regular Army and for secondment to American forces.
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