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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.
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