After a crowd riot ended play early the day prior,the fifth cricket Test between Australia and the West Indies in 1978 was abandoned as a draw when the umpire,Ralph Gosein,refused to take the field.
Cliff Young was a 61-year-old potato farmer who captured the world’s attention when he won the Sydney to Melbourne ultra-marathon.
Cliff Young was a 61-year-old potato farmer who captured Australia’s attention and became a folk hero when he won the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne ultra-marathon in 1983.
For nearly a decade,one man dominated Australian daytime television. The Herald visited Nine Studios to meet the housewives’ favourite,Mike Walsh.
In 1998,Susan O’Neill received a standing ovation and thunderous applause when she became the most prolific Australian titleholder in swimming history at a packed Melbourne Aquatic Centre.
Sixty years ago,Indonesia formally took over the administration of West New Guinea,bringing to an end an 18-year campaign to wrest the territory from Holland.
In 1993,the first face to appear on Melbourne television,Geoff Corke,known to 1960s children across Australia as King Corky,died aged 58.
The end of Mussolini,the man who inspired Hitler,came with terrible swiftness.
In April 1986,High Court judge Lionel Murphy was found not guilty of a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice. It was the end of two years of various legal proceedings against the judge,including two trials in the NSW Supreme Court.
Australia’s first digital mobile phone network needed the government to override law enforcement agency objections to launch on April 27,1993.
In 1993,science and a year of record rains led to Victoria’s rarest mammal,the eastern barred bandicoot,making a dramatic leap back from the brink of extinction.