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His Eminence Cardinal Sir Norman Gilroy KBE (1896-1977), the first Australian-born cardinal of the Catholic Church. Gilroy became Bishop of Port Augusta in 1934, Archbishop of Sydney in 1940, Australia's first cardinal in 1945, and, in 1969, the first cardinal to be knighted since the Reformation. Portrait (1948) by Edward Smith (1883-?) oil on canvas 83.7 x 66.2., St Patrick's College, Manly. Image courtesy National Library of Australia. |
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Suspicious Minds 10th
Suspicious Minds 17th
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head 24th
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head 31st
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head |
1 40 year-old former Rhodes scholar and union official Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke, succeeds Albert Monk as President of the ACTU. 3 The Beatles gather at Abbey Rd for what proves to be the very last song they record together, George Harrison's doleful I, Me, Mine, which is written about the group's infighting. - Davy Jones announces that he is leaving The Monkees.
5 The Victorian government sets up a board of inquiry
headed by Mr William Kaye, QC, to investigate an alleged
abortion racket involving Melbourne police [->22/1/70] 16
Max Yasgur, owner of the farmland on which the Woodstock Festivalwas held, is
sued for $25,000 in property damages by neighbouring farmers.
16 Police
raid an exhibition of lithographs by John Lennon at a
gallery in Bond Street, London 18-19
Cyclone Ada devastates the Daydream and Hayman Island
resorts in the Whitsunday Passage, killing 13 people. 21 The first Boeing
747-100 'Jumbo Jet' enters commercial service with
Pan American World Airways on a New York-to-London flight. 22 The
Victorian Kaye inquiry hears evidence that huge bribes
have been paid to Melbourne police to protect an illegal abortion
racket. It is alleged that the current and former heads of the Homicide Squad, Inspector Jack Ford and Superintendent Jack Matthews, had both been paid bribes of about $600 per month for eight years as part of the racket. 26 Mick
Jagger is fined £200 for possession
of cannabis. 27-29
11,000 people attend Australia's first rock festival, the Pilgrimage
For Pop, at Ourimbah on the NSW Central Coast. The festival
is organised by The Nutwood Rug Band, hosted by Adrian
Rawlins, and features Chain, The Aztecs, Tully and Leo De Castro
& Friends. 45 arrests are made over the three days.
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Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head 14th
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head 21st
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head 28th
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head |
3 The Andy Warhol film FLESH is seized by police in London 10 Shares in nickel mining company Poseidon reach a record level of $280 14 The final Sydney Proms concert features the premiere of Peter Sculthorpe's Love 200, with words by Tony Morphett, performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Hopkins, augmented by Tully and Jeannie Lewis, with special effects by Ellis D. Fogg. 23 The Indian Pacific train begins its inaugural transcontinental journey. 25 American artist Mark Rothko dies. 27 Taronga Zoo founder Sir Edward Hallstrom dies, aged 83 28 Left-wing journalist Wilfred Burchett is allowed temporary entry back into Australia after a 15-year government ban, that stemmed from his support of the Communist Party. Burchett describes allegations that he brainwashed Australian POWs during the Korean War as "silly and untrue". |
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Venus 14th
Venus 21st
Whole Lotta Love 28th
Whole Lotta Love |
1 Nine Australian troops are killed and 29 injured in heavy fighting in the Long Hai mountains, near Nui Dat in Vietnam. - The Indian Pacific transcontinental train successfully completes its first journey across Australia, covering 3961 kilometres in 65 hours. 4 Armed bandits commit the largest payroll robbery in Australian history, stealing $587,000 from a Mayne Nickless security van at a Sydney shopping centre. 6 Marine scientists warn that the Great Barrier Reef is being severely damaged by a massive explosion in the population of the coral-eating Crown Of Thorns starfish. 23 The shortlived "nickel boom" begins to fail, with prices of mining company Poseidon falling to $145, little more than half of its peak price of $280 the previous month. 29 British troops seal off the Bogside area of Londonderry in Northern Ireland after violent clashes with Catholics. 30 Queen Elizabeth, Prince Phillip and Princess Anne visit Australia for the Captain Cook bicentennial
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Good Morning Little School Girl / Rock
Me Baby Baby Blue Eyes / Then I Run |
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Let It Be 11th
Let It Be 18th
Let It Be 25th
Let It Be |
1 The Adelaide edition of the ABC's "This Day Tonight" screens a classic April Fool's Day joke. The bogus report features a fictional Japanese invention called the "Dylofish", which supposedly enables users to catch any kind of fish by simply attaching the device to the rod and dialing up the desired fish species. After the show goes to air, hundreds of viewers call the ABC trying to find out where they can buy it. Other memorable TDT pranks over the years include a report that the Sydney Opera House is sinking into the harbour, and their famous report on the proposal to replace the 24-hour clock with digital time system, which fooled thousands of viewers. - John Lennon goes on trial in London on charges of obscenity, following the January police raid on his lithograph exhibition 10 Paul McCartney announces the break-up of The Beatles 18 VFL Park opens in Mulgrave, Melbourne 21 Eccentric Western Australian wheat farmer Leonard G. Casley declares independence from Australia, renaming his property the Hutt River Province and later styling himself Prince Leonard of Hutt. 27 A London jury decides in favour of the defendant in John Lennon's lithograph obscenity trial 29 10,000 people gather at Kurnell in Sydney and two million more watch on TV as Australia commemorates the bicentennial of the landing of Captain James Cook at Botany Bay. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Anne attend a re-enactment of the landing, while Aboriginal protesters mark it as a day of mourning, dropping wreaths into the water. 30 US troops attack alleged Viet Cong bases in Cambodia |
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A Little Ray of Sunshine/Fords Bridge Hey Pinky / Strange Things, Just Zoot
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Let It Be 9th
Let It Be 16th
Spirit In The Sky 23rd
Spirit In The Sky 30th
Spirit In The Sky |
3 Queen Elizabeth opens the International Terminal at Sydney Airport. 4 In the US, four students are killed when the National Guard opens fire on an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio 5 As part of the Vietnam Moratorium protests, students and teachers in Sydney suspend "business as usual" and converge on Australia Square for and Act of Conscience to end the war", to express their individual opposition to the Vietnam war - The Australian Drug Evaluation Committee warns Australian women not to use brands of the contraceptive pill which contain high oestrogen levels, following controversy overseas about possible health risks. - The ABC becomes the focus of a major political controversy when the Chairman, Sir Robert Madgwick receives a letter from Postmaster-General Alan Hulme, instructing him that the 1970/71 ABC budget will be cut by $500,000, and that $250,000 of this should be taken from current affairs. ABC management immediately realises that this is an attempt to censor programs like Four Cormers and This Day Tonight, which have been a thorn in the side of the federal government. Hulme's letter sparks mass protests by staff. - in the US there is a major public outcry when the bombing of Cambodia is revealed 8 Over 200,000 people across Australia participate in massive Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations, protesting against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war. The largest rally is in Melbourne, where Labor frontbencher Dr Jim Cairns leads 70,000 people in a march and sit-down in the city centre. 13 The world premiere of The Beatles' last film, Let It Be, takes place in London. The film was originally conceived by Paul McCartney to record of the group at work on their projected 'back-to-basics' album, tentatively called Get Back. It includes the footage of their famous final impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple offices. Under director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who also made the famous 28-Up series) the film becomes a poignant warts-and-all document of the bickering, in-fighting and tension of the dying days of the legendary group. 14 World-famous Australian painter Sir William Dobell dies, aged 70 21 The Yellow House opens in Potts Point, Sydney. The innovative 'multimedia' space includes an exhibition of artwork by Martin Sharp, a sound system by UBU's Aggy Read, films by Read and Philip Noyce, and tapdancing by "Little Nell" aka Laura Campbell (daughter of Sunday Telegraph columnist Ross Campbell and future star of The Rocky Horror Show). 22 The ABC Board holds a crisis meeting with Postmaster-General Alan Hulme over the controversial ABC budget cuts targetting ABC current affairs. 27 On the same day as mass protests by ABC staff, Postmaster-General Alan Hulme backs down on attempts to cut the ABC budget. In the event, it is actually increased by $5 million. 30 Labor wins the SA election, and Don Dunstan again becomes Premier. |
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On The Highway / Resting Place Satan / Satan's Woman |
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Spirit In The Sky 13th
Spirit In The Sky 20th
Everything Is Beautiful 27th
Everything Is Beautiful |
3 Anti-apartheid demonstrators are involved in violent clashes with police during a rugby union match between Victoria and the South African Springbok team in Melbourne. 8 London police raid the offices of OZ magazine and seize copies of Oz No. 28 (the infamous Schoolkids Issue). Charges are later brought against the editors, alleging that OZ is an obscene publication. The case becomes one of the longest and most controversial in British legal history. 11 Tony Richardson's film Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger, premieres in Hollywood. 18 Reverend D.A. Trathen is dismissed as headmaster of Sydney's exclusive private school Newington College after he calls on Australian youth to resist the National Service Act 24 Ned Kelly premieres in London |
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Cottonfields 11th
Up Round The Bend 18th
Up Round The Bend 25th
Up Round The Bend |
1 Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport opens. 2 The horrifying multiple murders of the Crawford family are uncovered in Victoria. Except for a strange twist of fate, the full story of the case might never have been known. The initial discovery was made by a tourist visiting scenic Loch Ard Gorge, an inlet on Victoria's rugged southwestern coast, and a region notorious for some of the worst shipwrecks in Australia's maritime history. Looking over the cliff, the tourist spotted a wrecked car balancing precariously on the lip of a small ledge, below the cliff top. Expecting the car to topple into the sea below at any moment, the tourist raised the alarm. Late in the day, a search-and-rescue officer scaled the sheer cliff to examine the car in fading light. He found a loaded rifle inside, and noticed a strange smell emanating from the wreck, but at this point the search has to be called off for the night. Meanwhile, police traced the car's registration to a house hundreds of kilometres away in Cardinal Rd, Glenroy, the home of the Crawford family. When they broke into the empty house they discovered a blood-spattered crime scene. When the car was retrieved and fully examined the following day, police discovered the grisly remains of four people in the boot, all victims of a shocklingly brutal murder. Theresa Crawford, 35, who was pregnant with her fourth child and her three children Katherine, 13, James, 8 and Karen, 6, had all been savagely bashed with a hammer, shot and electrocuted. After the killings, the bodies were loaded into the car and driven over the cliff. Had the car not lodged on the rock ledge, it would have undoubtedly plunged into the deep water at the base of the cliffs, and the bodies would probably never have been found. The discoveries triggered one of the biggest manhunts the state had ever seen. The prime suspect was, and remains, husband and father Elmer Kyle Crawford (b.1929) but the time police uncovered the full extent of the crime, Crawford had fled. He is believed to have left the country and has never been seen again. If still alive, he would now be in his early 70s. The unsolved case remains one of the most enduring murder mysteries in Australian criminal history. 4 Australia again dominates Wimbledon. Margaret Court wins the women's singles title and John Newcombe the men's title. 9 PM John Gorton arrives in Rabaul and is jeered and booed by a crowd of 10,000 Tolai tribesmen, demanding an end to Australian colonial rule of the territory. 16The one millionth passenger is carried on the Boeing 747 worldwide fleet. 21 The federal government announces a scheme to give Northern Territory Aborigines exclusive leasehold land rights to 93,000 square miles of the Territory, about one-fifth of the territory's total area. 22 Author George Johnston dies, aged 58. 26 Yachtsman Hans Tholstrup completes his circumnavigation of Australia in a 5.2m runabout. 28 The Australian premiere of Ned Kelly is held in the Victorian country town of Glenrowan. 31 Sydney's historic Her Majesty's Theatre is destroyed by fire. |
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In Peace Flying Circus |
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Up Round The Bend 8th
Up Round The Bend 15th
Up Round The Bend 22nd
El Condor Pasa 29th
In The Summertime |
3 Work on the Melbourne's West Gate Bridge is suspended for steel re-stregthening. Just over two months later a span of the bridge collapses, killing 35 workers. (-->15/10/70) 8 A TF Much Ballroom event is held at Cathedral Hall, Brunswick St Fitzroy, featuring Spectrum, Sons Of The Vegetal Mother, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Gerry Humphries and the New Joy Boys, Lipp Arthur, Adderley Smith, Margaret Roadknight, Tribe Theatre, Jeff Crozier's Indian Medicine Magik Show, Flash Light Show. 17 The Australian Film Development Commission is established. 26 Jimi Hendrix plays his last major public concert at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival 27 Interior Minister Peter Nixon says the federal government will not recognise land rights claims by Aboriginals from Wave Hill in the Northern Territory. |
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In The Summertime 12th
In The Summertime 19th
In The Summertime 26th
In The Summertime |
1 Queensland Mines announces the discovery of major uranium deposit at Naabarlek in the Northern Territory. - The Australia government bans a proposed visit by comedian and anti-war activist Dick Gregory - Martin Plaza (formerly Martin Place) is officially opened as Sydney's first pedestrian plaza. 4 HAIR cast member Marcia Hines gives birth to daughter Deni. 12 LSD guru Timothy Leary escapes from a US prison. 14 The federal executive of the ALP disbands the Victorian branch after the it is found guilty of breaching party rules over state aid to non-government schools, and because of its domination by the Trade Union Defence Committee. 15 An inspector, a superintendent and two other former officers are charged following an inquiry into Victorian police involvement in an illegal abortion racket. 18 Further Vietnam Moratorium rallies are held in capital cities; 200 people are arrested in Sydney, 100 in Adelaide. - fans and musicians around the world are stunned by the news that musician Jimi Hendrix has died in London, aged only 27. An autopsy later reveals that he died as a result of choking on his own vomit, following an accidental barbiturate overdose. Rumours persist for years afterwards that emergency services failed to respond in time, but most reputable sources say that this is untrue. 19 South Sydney defeats Manly-Warringah in the Rugby League Grand Final. |
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Through The Eyes Of Love / Trouble On The
Turnpike Purple Curtains / Pour Out All You've Got |
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In The Summertime 10th
In The Summertime 17th
Close To You 24th
Close To You 31st
Close To You |
1 In London, the preliminary hearing is held in the obscenity case over the OZ "Schoolkids Issue". Editors Richard Neville, Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis satirise the event by attending the first hearing dressed as schoolgirls. The case, defended by prominent lawyers John Mortimer and Geoffrey Robertson, becomes a cause celebre in the British underground, garnering support from the likes of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Edward De Bono and Marty Feldman. After a marathon trial during late 1971 the three are found guilty of publishing an obscene magazine and sentenced to heavy gaol terms. The convictions are subsequently quashed on appeal when it is found that the the trial judge Justice Argyle had misdirected the jury. 
4 Only weeks after the death of Jimi Hendrix, the music scene is again rocked by another tragedy -- the death of singer Janis Joplin, who is found dead in her hotel room after an overdose of heroin. At the time of her death Joplin was in Los Angeles recording a new album with producer Paul Rothchild and the Full Tilt Boogie Band. Ironically, her posthumously released album Pearl, released early the next year, becomes her most successful to date, and the single Me and Bobby McGee her biggest hit, including a No.1 placing on the Australian charts in May 1971. 5 Led Zeppelin release their groundbreaking Led Zeppelin III album. 11 The Sunday Review (later The Review) begins publication in Melbourne. 15 A 384-foot span of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge collapses during construction and falls 155 feet, killing 35 construction workers. Most of those killed were working on top of or within the span, with the remainder killed in site huts which are crushed beneath the 2000-ton structure. - Victorian unions impose a black ban on redevelopment in the historic Melbourne suburb of Carlton. 31 A Jimi Hendrix Memorial is held at the TF Much Ballroom, Melbourne with Spectrum, Chain, Sons Of The Vegetal Mother and King Harvest. The gig also marks the official debut of Daddy Cool. |
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Israel/Giselle Won't You Try? / Down and Out |
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Lookin' Out My Back Door 14th
Lookin' Out My Back Door 21st
Lookin' Out My Back Door 28th
Lookin' Out My Back Door |
3 Baghdad Note wins the Melbourne Cup 5 La Balsa, a balsa wood raft with a crew of five, arrives in Mooloolaba Qld, after an historic trans-Pacific voyage from Ecuador. The journey demonstrates the possiblity of prehistoric contact between pre-Columbian South American cultures and those of Australasia and the Pacific. 12 Australia's withdrawal of troops from Vietnam begins with the return of the 8th Battalion. - The US court martial of Lt William Calley begins. Calley is charged with ordering the infamous My Lai massacre in 1968. 17 The West Gate Bridge royal commission is told that engineers attempted "first aid" repairs to a section of the bridge under construction two hours before it collapsed killing 35 workers. 20 A staggering 150,000 people are drowned when a massive tidal wave devastates coastal areas of East Pakistan. 25 Victoria becomes the first state to make the wearing of car safety belts compulsory, with the new law to come into force from Jan. 1 next year. - Celebrated Japanese author Yukio Mishima calls for a return to militarism, then commits hara-kiri at the Tokyo Defence Ministry 30 Pope Paul VI arrives for a tour of Australia. |
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Song Of Joy 19th
Song Of Joy 26th
Song Of Joy |
8 In New York, Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone magazine conducts his historic interview with John Lennon. Lennon speaks frankly about his his life and his career with The Beatles. The interview, probably the most famous and influential "star" interview of the 20th century, is published in two parts in Rolling Stone, and is later published in book form in 1973. Asked what effect the Beatles had on the history of Britain Lennon replies:
31 The new four-piece lineup of The La De Das plays its first gig in Byron Bay. New bassist Peter Roberts (ex-Freshwater) has recently joined, after months of internal tensions which almost broke up the band and resulted in the departure in founding bassist Trevor Wilson. - On the last day of the Sixties, the breakup of The Beatles becomes final when bassist Paul McCartney files suit in London against the rest of the band, seeking the dissolution of The Beatles & Co. |
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