Science and Technology
- John Carew Eccles shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse
- 3 December – Australians could connect more easily by telephone with the rest of the world by International Direct Dialling with the opening of COMPAC, the Commonwealth Pacific cable. This was part of a scheme to connect the British Commonwealth by telephone.
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