Paul James RasmussenAge: 191955–1974
- Name
- Paul James Rasmussen
- Given names
- Paul James
- Surname
- Rasmussen
| Birth | 1955 Australia |
| Australian History | 1955 Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 12 months) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 2) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Australian History | 1962 (Age 7) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
| Australian History | 1964 (Age 9) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 10) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (Age 11) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. |
| Australian History | 14 February 1966 (Age 11) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | 1967 (Age 12) Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton; Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings; Note: Talkback radio is introduced; Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney; Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party; Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia. |
| Australian History | 1968 (Age 13) Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney; |
| Australian History | 1969 (Age 14) Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die; Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney; Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958 |
| Australian History | 1970 (Age 15) Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War |
| Australian History | 1971 (Age 16) Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest. Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. |
| Australian History | 1972 (Age 17) Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving. |
| Australian History | 1973 (Age 18) Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled Note: Vietnam War ends Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18 Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans' Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Australian History | 1974 (on the date of death) Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy |
| Death | 1974 (Age 19) Australia |
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Phillip Rasmussen
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Paul James Rasmussen
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William Mead
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