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Wendy Dianne DOWNEY

Female 1959 - 1998  (39 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
1959 
  • 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
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.
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.
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
1964 
  • 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
  • 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
1966 
  • 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
  • 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
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.
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.
10 1970 
  • 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
11 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.
12 1975 
  • 1975: First colour television broadcast.
13 1977 
  • 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
14 1979 
  • 1979: WAY 79, was the official sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) celebration of the colonisation of Western Australia by Europeans.
  • 12 Jul 1979: Skylab crashes to earth around esperance area.
15 1980 
  • 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
16 1981 
  • 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
17 1983 
  • 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
18 1989 
  • 1989: Berlin Wall Falls
19 1990 
  • 1990: Nelson Mandela Freed
  • 3 Oct 1990: The fall of the Berlin wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded.
20 1997 
  • 31 Aug 1997: On 31 August 1997, Diana died after a high speed car accident in the Pont d'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the acting security manager of the Hotel Ritz Paris, Henri Paul, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris secretly eluding the paparazzi