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  • 1932 - Food relief reached its peak in New South Wales with 413 171 food orders processed in the preceding four weeks.
  • 1937 - Robin Warren, Nobel Prize winner is born.
  • 1964 - The Beatles began their three week tour of Australia; in Adelaide 300,000 fans turned out to see the band drive in a motorcade from the airport into the city.
  • 1971 - Neville Bonner is sworn into the Australian Senate, he is the first Aboriginal federal parliamentarian.