Velma Jeannette Potts 1925

Velma Jeannette PottsAge: 601925–1985

Name: Velma Jeannette Potts

Given names: Velma Jeannette

Surname: Potts

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Birth	5 January 1925 31 33 Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
Australian History	1926 (Age 11 months) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 (Age 23 months) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 2) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built.
Birth of a brother	14 October 1929 (Age 4) Dimboola, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Geoffrey Jagger Potts
Australian History	1929 (Age 3) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 4) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup
Australian History	1931 (Age 5) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 (Age 6) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Death of a mother	6 May 1933 (Age 8) Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia mother - Ruby Caroline Miller
Death of a paternal grandmother	20 May 1933 (Age 8) Healesville, Victoria, Australia paternal grandmother - Elizabeth "Betty" Carr
Australian History	1933 (Age 7) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments
Australian History	1936 (Age 10) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Birth of a half-brother	9 April 1937 (Age 12) Kaniva, Victoria, Australia half-brother - Athol Jabez Potts
Australian History	1937 (Age 11) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 (Age 12) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 (Age 13) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires
Australian History	1940 (Age 14) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean.
Australian History	1941 (Age 15) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45.
Australian History	1942 (Age 16) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws.
Australian History	1943 (Age 17) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula.
Australian History	1944 (Age 18) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians
Australian History	1945 (Age 19) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time
Australian History	1946 (Age 20) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council.
Event	OH Velma and Noela 1947 (estimated) (Age 21) OH Velma and Noela
Death of a paternal grandfather	10 August 1948 (Age 23) Box Hill, Victoria, Australia paternal grandfather - Oliver Henry "O. H." Potts
Australian History	1948 (Age 22) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Australian History	1949 (Age 23) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government.
Australian History	1950 (Age 24) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party
Australian History	1951 (Age 25) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	1952 (Age 26) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History	1954 (Age 28) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party
Australian History	1955 (Age 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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.
Marriage of a brother	Geoffrey Jagger Potts - View family 29 March 1958 (Age 33) Kaniva, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Geoffrey Jagger Potts sister-in-law - Shirley Anne Dodson
Australian History	1962 (Age 36) 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 38) 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 39) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History	1966 (Age 40) 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 41) 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 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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 44) Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Australian History	1971 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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
Death of a father	27 May 1974 (Age 49) father - Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P.
Australian History	1974 (Age 48) Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy
Australian History	1975 (Age 49) Note: (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister Note: The 'Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act removes the right to appeal High Court decisions to the British Privy Council. Appeals to the Privy Council direct from State Supreme Courts remain until 1988. Note: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private. Note: Whitlam government introduced the Aboriginal Land (NT) Bill into Parliament. The bill proposed land rights in the Northern Territory based on land claimed on grounds of need as well as traditional affiliation and traditional landowners maintaining control over mining and development.
Australian History	1976 (Age 50) Note: The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private.
Australian History	1977 (Age 51) Note: Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem Note: Granville rail disaster killed eighty-three people
Australian History	1978 (Age 52) Note: The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney
Australian History	1979 (Age 53) Note: Australian women win the right to maternity leave Note: Kakadu National Park and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are both proclaimed.
Australian History	1980 (Age 54) Note: Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Uluru (Ayers Rock), reportedly taken by a dingo. The Coalition wins the 1980 Australian federal election.
Australian History	1981 (Age 55) Note: A referendum is held in Tasmania to vote for whether or not the Franklin Dam should be built.
Australian History	1982 (Age 56) Note: Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. The National Gallery of Australia is opened.
Australian History	1983 (Age 57) Note: Australia wins the America's Cup; Note: Bob Hawke defeats Fraser and leads Labor back to government. Note: The Australian Dollar is floated. Note: The Ash Wednesday fires kill 71 people.
Australian History	1984 (Age 58) Note: Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem. Note: The one dollar coin is introduced. Note: Labor wins the 1984 Australian federal election. Note: Medicare is established.
Australian History	1985 (Age 59) Note: The government grants the freehold title of a large area of land in central Australia, including prominent landmarks Uluru and Kata Tjuta, to the Mutitjulu people, who in turn give them a 99-year lease. Note: The last state to do so (New South Wales) abolishes capital punishment.
Death	22 July 1985 (Age 60) Warragul, Victoria, Australia

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father	Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P. Birth 27 May 1893 31 35 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 27 May 1974 (Age 81) Loading...
-23 months mother	Ruby Caroline Miller Birth 29 June 1891 Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia Death 6 May 1933 (Age 41) Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: 11 September 1916 — Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia
4 years #1 elder brother	Noel Jagger Potts Birth 14 April 1920 26 28 Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia Death 26 January 1921 (Age 9 months) Mordialloc, Victoria, Australia Loading...
20 months #2 elder sister	Ruby Yvonne Potts Birth 2 December 1921 28 30 Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia Death 17 September 2017 (Age 95) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Loading...
3 years #3 herself	Velma Jeannette Potts Birth 5 January 1925 31 33 Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia Death 22 July 1985 (Age 60) Warragul, Victoria, Australia Loading...
5 years #4 younger brother	Geoffrey Jagger Potts Birth 14 October 1929 36 38 Dimboola, Victoria, Australia Death 31 December 1986 (Age 57) Nhill, Victoria, Australia Loading...

Father’s family with Mary Jane Sassella - View family

father	Jabez Jagger "Jay" Potts M.B.E. J.P. Birth 27 May 1893 31 35 Frankston, Victoria, Australia Death 27 May 1974 (Age 81) Loading...
14 years step-mother	Mary Jane Sassella Birth 3 July 1907 St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
#1 half-brother	Athol Jabez Potts Birth 9 April 1937 43 29 Kaniva, Victoria, Australia Death 13 June 2022 (Age 85) Loading...
#2 half-sister	Private Loading...