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Lucy Sophia BEDFORD

Female 1932 - 1979  (47 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1927 
  • 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
1928 
  • 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
1939 
  • 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
1945 
  • 1945: First Computer Built
  • 30 Apr 1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
  • 6 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  • 9 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
1948 
  • 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
1956 
  • 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
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.
10 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.
11 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
12 1964 
  • 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
  • 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
13 1966 
  • 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
  • 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
14 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.
15 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.
16 1970 
  • 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
17 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.
18 1975 
  • 1975: First colour television broadcast.
19 1977 
  • 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
20 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.