Events
- 3 February – Elizabeth II arrives in Sydney on her first visit as monarch
- 13 February – Mawson Station in the Australian Antarctic Territory is established
- During February, a cyclone hits the Gold Coast and northern New South Wales, killing 26
- 3 April – Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet diplomat, defects to Australia, sparking the Petrov Affair
- Shirley Bliss wins the Miss Australia Quest
- On 31 October, the first Vickers Viscount aircraft delivered to Australia crashed at Mangalore Airport while on a training flight only days after its arrival in Australia, killing 3 of the 7 people on board.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)