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| 1 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 2 | 1956 | - 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
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| 3 | 1959 | - 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
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| 4 | 1961 | - 1961: Berlin Wall Built
- 12 Apr 1961: The first manned spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union as a part of the Vostok programme of space exploration, with a cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
- 5 May 1961: The United States became the second nation to achieve manned spaceflight, with the suborbital flight of astronaut Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7, carried out as part of Project Mercury.
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| 5 | 1962 | - 1962: Perth gets the name 'City of Light' as John Glenn passed over the city in his Mercury spacecraft.
- 5 Aug 1962: Marilyn Monroe was found naked, dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death.
- Oct 1962: The Cuban missile crisis.
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| 6 | 1963 | - 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
- 22 Nov 1963: The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST
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| 7 | 1964 | - 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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| 8 | 1966 | - 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
- 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
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| 9 | 1967 | - 27 May 1967: Australian referendum relating to Indigenous Australians. The results of the referendum recognised Aboriginal people on the census and made "Aboriginal Affairs' the responsiblity of the Commonwealth.
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| 10 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969: Moon Landing - On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.
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| 11 | 1970 | - 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
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| 12 | 1972 | - 30 Jan 1972: Bloody Sunday - Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
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| 13 | 1975 | - 1975: First colour television broadcast.
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| 14 | 1977 | - 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley
(8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
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1950 - 1978 (28 years)