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* 1964 – In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition ( 58. 9 seconds ).
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* 1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese politician and soldier, 13th President of Portugal ( d. 1964 )
* 1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
The tempo of the play changed over the next four series in the 1960s, held in 1962 – 63, 1964, 1965 – 66 and 1968.
Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.
1964 and Sydney
Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.
The cover of the Australian release of the LP featured individual photographs of The Beatles taken at one of the group's Sydney concerts in June 1964.
In 1964, Tulloch Limited built the first double-decker trailer cars for use in Sydney ; they ran with single deck electric motor cars.
Penelope Seidler, herself an architect, gained her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney and joined Seidler and Associates in 1964 as architect and financial manager.
The year 1964 saw the gradual demise of the Royal George Hotel as the prime focal venue of the Sydney Push which dispersed its bustling social life to other traditional venues like the Newcastle, Orient and Port Jackson hotels in The Rocks near Circular Quay and the Rose, Crown and Thistle at Paddington, but also to alternative central-city pubs including the United States and Edinburgh Castle.
The disabled poet Lex Banning travelled to England and Greece from 1962 until 1964 but returned and died in Sydney in 1965.
Jeff Fenech ( born 28 May 1964 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia ) is a retired Australian boxer, a three-weight world champion and a boxing trainer.
Between 1964 and 1984 Network Ten's four stations — ATV-0 / ATV-10 Melbourne, TEN-10 Sydney, TVQ-0 Brisbane and SAS-10 Adelaide-had used different logos to identify themselves.
Beginning their career in Sydney in late 1964, the band was inspired by the " British Invasion " spearheaded by The Beatles.
* Funny Girl ( Capitol, 1964 ) performed by the original Broadway cast with Barbra Streisand & Sydney Chaplin
The famous Sydney underworld figure Kate Leigh ( 1881 – 1964 ), lived in Surry Hills for more than 80 years.
Oakes was educated at Lithgow High School ( of which he was the dux in 1961 ) and graduated in 1964 from the University of Sydney while working part-time with the Sydney Daily Mirror.
There had been an earlier attempt in 1964 by another Sydney team, which included adventurer Dick Smith and other members of the Scouting movement.
Its existence was first suggested in 1905 by the British physiologist John Sydney Edkins, and gastrins were isolated in 1964 by Roderic Alfred Gregory and Tracy at the University of Liverpool.
In 1962 he moved back to Sydney where he joined 2GB, remaining with the station for two years before he rejoined 2UE in 1964.
On 27 April 1964, he was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia: the first law graduate from the University of Sydney to hold this position.
Hugely popular at its peak, with audiences occasionally touching an astounding twenty million, Armchair Theatre was an important influence over later programmes such as the BBC's The Wednesday Play ( 1964 – 1970 ), a programme initiated by Sydney Newman after he had moved to the BBC.
Beginning in 1964, the federal government tried to address concerns about competition and local production by licencing a third station in major cities, beginning with Channel 0 in Melbourne and Channel 10 in Sydney.
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