Australian history 1958

Answer 1

Australia in the year 1958.

Events

• 14 January - Qantas Airways introduces a round-the-world air service from Australia to London.
• 20 January - The Royal Australian Naval College is moved back to Jervis Bay Territory from Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria.
• 28 January to 11 February - Harold Macmillan visits Australia, the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to do so while in office.
• 14 February to 7 March - Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother visits Australia for the second time.
• 21 March - John McEwen replaces Arthur Fadden as federal leader of the Country Party.
• 24 March - The Cahill Expressway in Sydney opens, the first true freeway in Australia.
• 3 April - A cyclone destroys most of the town of Bowen in Queensland.
• 15 April - Monash University is founded in Melbourne, Victoria.
• 11 May - Construction of Australia's largest man-made lake, Lake Eucumbene on the Eucumbene River in the Snowy Mountains, is completed.
• 31 May - Henry Bolte's Liberal government is re-elected in Victoria.
• 19 July - The last tram service runs in Perth.
• 26 August - Robert Cosgrove retires as Premier of Tasmania, and is replaced by Eric Reece.
• 30 September - The ANZAC Day Act 1958 receives Royal Assent, making ANZAC Day (25 April) a national public holiday in Australia.
• 26 October - The wreckage of the Australian National Airways Avro 10 aircraft, VH-UMF Southern Cloud, is found. The aircraft had been missing since 1931
• 22 November - A federal election is held. The Liberal-Country coalition led by Robert Menzies defeats H. V. Evatt's Australian Labor Party with 74 seats to 45 in the House of Representatives, a majority unprecedented since Federation, gained from preferences from the Democratic Labor Party.