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Warrangamba Dam is open by Premier of NSW
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Just past midnight during the night of August 12-13, 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers headed to the border of West and East Berlin. While most Berliners were sleeping, the workers quickly constructed a barrier made of concrete posts and barbed wire along the border.
When Berliners did finally wake, they found themselves stuck on whichever side of the border they had fallen asleep on. For nearly three decades, East Germans would be kept behind this barrier, the Berlin Wall. -
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
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Collision between two warhsips, they were performing manoveurs off Jervis Bay when the Voyager sailed under Melbourne's bow. She cut into two and sunk, 82 of her crew killed.
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Great black Leader Malcolm X, shot dead, becoming a role model for Black Americans.
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Premier of Queensland Jack Pizzey dies in Office
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Ronald Joseph Ryan, the last person to be legally executed in Australia.
