In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

Percy Roberts, a leading judge will not be at the International Show this year for the Junior Judging Contest as he has been invited to judge in Australia in March.

Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.

The Middle East, Australia and New Zealand hold their events between January and March.

Buddy Holly and the Crickets toured Australia in January 1958 and the UK in March.

He was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1920 and accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour of Australia in her.

It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001 ; in North America on June 11, 2001 ; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001 ; and in the People's Republic of China on June 8, 2004 ( excluding Hong Kong ).

From March 2003, Holden no longer held the number one sales position in Australia, losing ground to Toyota.

In Western Australia, Labour Day is the first Monday in March.

Linkin Park's second album debuted on March 25, 2003 and instantly earned worldwide recognition, going to No. 1 in the US and UK, and No. 2 in Australia.

In March 1942, with the assistance of Australia, the territory became an important Allied base, and Nouméa the headquarters of the United States Navy and Army in the South Pacific.

They continued to tour throughout 2012, including a short tour of New Zealand and Australia in February / March.

* 12 November 2011 – 25 March 2012, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

It rapidly spread west and hit North America in December 1889, South America in February – April 1890, India in February – March 1890, and Australia in March – April 1890.

They then toured Australia and New Zealand between February and March for a further eight shows.

Amundsen ’ s success was publicly announced on 7 March 1912, when he arrived at Hobart, Australia.

Returning to Australia in February 1946, he was demobilised on 22 March.

The first big soap opera hit in Australia was the sex-melodrama Number 96 which began in March 1972, screening on Network Ten in a nighttime slot.

From 1995 through March 2004, Phoenix conducted observations at the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia, the radio telescope of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, and the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

The first officially recognised Test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), where Australia won by 45 runs.

In March 1967, the Seekers returned to Australia for a homecoming tour, which included a performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, attended by an estimated audience of 200, 000.

As of March 2008, Australia was Vanuatu's biggest aid provider, followed by France.

Schools and universities in Australia typically have academic years that roughly align with the calendar year ( i. e. starting in February or March and ending in October to December ), as the southern hemisphere experiences summer from December to February.

In Australia, 6 – 11 year olds IQ, as measured by the Colored Progressive Matrices, has shown no increase from 1975 – 2003.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

* 2003 – The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.

* 2003 – A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

Bernard Zuel made the following comments while discussing the remastered edition of " Forever Changes " in a 2003 story in the Sydney Morning Herald ( Australia ).

Chris Hollow, writing for the Sunday Age ( Melbourne, Australia ) in 2003, said, " The music on ' Forever Changes ' is powerful, exotic, surreal, occasionally demented and suffused with the unmistakable and heady scent of 1967 California.

* 2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.

* Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna, Ecco Press, New York, 2003 ; HarperCollins Australia, Melbourne, 2003 ; Granta, London, 2004

On 6 July 2003, in response to a proposal to send 300 police and 2, 000 troops from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to Guadalcanal, warlord Harold Keke announced a ceasefire by faxing a signed copy of the announcement to the Solomons Prime Minister, Allan Kemakeza.

Recently ( 2003 onwards ), self-determination has become the topic of some debate in Australia in relation to Aborigines ( indigenous Australians ).

Following the re-release of their album At First Sight, Violets Are Blue and the release of the Mushroom Soup: The Citadel Years in 2003, The Stems found themselves playing to packed houses across the country, touring Europe, playing the prestigious " Little Stevens Underground Garage Festival " in August 2005, and then at the " Come Together Festival " at Sydney ’ s Luna Park with the cream of Australia ’ s newest bands in September 2005.

In 2003, Nick Greiner, a former premier of New South Wales, resigned from his position as chair of the University's Graduate School of Management because of academic protests against his simultaneous chairmanship of British American Tobacco ( Australia ).

** Iraq War ( 2003 – 2011 ) – In 2003, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded and occupied Iraq.

* March 23 – The 2003 Cricket World Cup ends as Australia beat India by 125 runs in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Following Wakeman's announcement of his return in April 2002, Yes embarked on their Full Circle Tour in 2002 – 2003 that included their first performances in Australia since 1973.

Low-cost commercial vans and 4WDs in Australia continued with carburetors even into the 2000s, the last being the Mitsubishi Express van in 2003.

) ( 2003 ): Legacies of White Australia.

Pharmion Corporation, who licensed the rights to market thalidomide in Europe, Australia, and various other territories from Celgene, received approval for its use against multiple myeloma in Australia and New Zealand in 2003.