From the Archives,1968:De Gaulle... adieu or encore ?

From the Archives,1968:De Gaulle... adieu or encore ?

As ten million striking workers demanded the end of his regime,President Charles de Gaulle dissolved the French National Assembly and announced new elections.

  • byT. S. Monks

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From the Archives:Atmospheric oddity reveals its secrets over Port Phillip

From the Archives:Atmospheric oddity reveals its secrets over Port Phillip

Melbourne physicists cracked the secret of an eerie cloud formation that rolls across north Queensland’s gulf country on moist spring mornings and occurs occasionally on Port Phillip Bay.

  • byGraeme O'Neill
From the Archives,1953:British expedition conquers Everest

From the Archives,1953:British expedition conquers Everest

Seventy years ago,Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

  • byAAP andStaff reporter
From the Archives,1953:Hillary and Norgay reach the top of the world

From the Archives,1953:Hillary and Norgay reach the top of the world

Seventy years ago,Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world.

  • byStaff writers
From the Archives,1973:10-minute satellite wedding for $3,500

From the Archives,1973:10-minute satellite wedding for $3,500

In what was considered to be a world first,a wedding in Sydney was televised in real time to relatives and guests in Athens.

  • byBob Cameron
From the Archives,1953:Queen Elizabeth is crowned

From the Archives,1953:Queen Elizabeth is crowned

On June 2,1953,large crowds flocked to London to see Queen Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey. At the moment of the crowning,the crowd outside the Abbey rose in a great body. Hats came off,heads were bowed. Then down came the rain.

  • byStaff Writers
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From the Archives,1980:‘Crushed’ Raelene Boyle pulls out of Olympics

From the Archives,1980:‘Crushed’ Raelene Boyle pulls out of Olympics

In 1980,Raelene Boyle withdrew from the Australian Olympic team for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Many countries and some individual athletes around the world decided to join the US led boycott of the Games,as a protest against the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

  • byStaff Writers
From the Archives,1983:Unionists stop to celebrate centenary

From the Archives,1983:Unionists stop to celebrate centenary

The Painters and Dockers celebrated their centenary during an adjournment to the Royal Commission into the union’s activities.

  • byAndrew Keenan
From the Archives,1993:Campion’s Piano a Cannes success

From the Archives,1993:Campion’s Piano a Cannes success

In 1993,‘The Piano’ became the first Australian film to win the Palme d’Or while New Zealand-born Jane Campion became the first woman director to win the prize.

  • byLynden Barber andAgencies
From the Archives,1963:Buildings burn in night of cracker vandalism

From the Archives,1963:Buildings burn in night of cracker vandalism

After a chaotic evening that saw cars and buildings burnt out and airports closed due to dense smoke,the future of Cracker Night was in doubt.

  • byStaff reporter
From the Archives,1988:Breaker Morant rides free from Burra ‘retrial’

From the Archives,1988:Breaker Morant rides free from Burra ‘retrial’

In 1988,Harry “the Breaker” Morant was found innocent,according to an unofficial ‘retrial’ held in Burra in South Australia. The verdict rejected the official guilty verdict of one of British military history’s most controversial trials.

  • byEdmund Doogue