The Menzies Era - 1949 to 1972

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1949 Mao Zedong assumes power	1950 Korean War begins	1951 First commercial computer (Univac 1)	1952 Elizabeth 11 becomes Queen	1953 Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay climb Everest	1954 Elvis Presley'd first recordings
1955 Rock around the Clock	1956 Dwight Eisenhower elected	1957 Sputnik 1 launched	1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes sole Premier of the USSR	1959 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba	1960 John Kennedy elected
1961 Yuri Gargarin becomes 1st man in space	1962 Vatican 2	1963 Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech	1964 The Beatles	1965 Australian troops in Vietnam	1966 Robert Menzies retires
1967 Che Guevara killed	1968 Bobby Kennedy assinated	1969 Moon landing	1970 Biafra crisis	1971 Idi Amin becomes Prime Minister of Uganda	1972 Gough Whitlam elected

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