On Tuesday 7 February 1967, known now as
The bushfires which attacked Hobart and adjacent areas of Southern Tasmania in the summer of 1966–67, peaking on 7 February, produced one of the most damaging natural disasters ever experienced in Australia. Such a disaster is a social event resulting from the impact of a disaster agent on a settled community.
February 6, 1967 (Monday)
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Many of them joined together to form an inferno. In just five hours, 62 people lost their lives, 900 were injured, at least 1,300 homes were destroyed, 7,000 people were left homeless and half a million acres were burned. It was the largest loss of life in a single day in Tasmania's history from such an event.
1974–75 bushfire
In the summer of 1974-1975 (southern hemisphere), Australia suffered its worst recorded bushfire, when 15% of Australia's land mass suffered "extensive fire damage". Fires that summer burnt an estimated 117 million hectares (290 million acres; 1,170,000 square kilometres; 450,000 square miles).
On February 7, 2009, the “Black Saturday Bushfires” became the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
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Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
1967 Chinese Zodiac - Fire Sheep.
Sixty-two people lost their lives, 900 were injured, and 7,000 left homeless. The fires came within two kilometres of the central business district of Hobart.
It reached Narbethong at 4.20pm and Marysville at 6.45pm before burning through Buxton and Taggerty. The Kinglake Fire Complex was the most significant fire which evolved from the merging of the Kilmore East and Murrindindi fires on 8 February 2009.
The William Booth Memorial Home fire occurred on 13 August 1966 at the William Booth Memorial Home for destitute and alcoholic men in Melbourne, Australia. With 30 dead, it remains the nation's deadliest building fire.
1945 – Tokyo, causing the largest urban conflagration in history, with over 100,000 killed. 1945 – Würzburg, 5,000 killed. 1945 – Kobe, 8,800 killed. 1945 – Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 105,000 to 120,000 killed; large fires in each city.
Australians vote yes to change the Constitution
On 27 May 1967, Australians voted to change the Constitution so that like all other Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would be counted as part of the population and the Commonwealth would be able to make laws for them.
The Summer of Love was a social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury.
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Deadliest natural disaster in Australian history. A tropical cyclone (known as The Gold Coast Cyclone) crossed the coast late evening on 20 February 1954 at Coolangatta.
Cyclone Mahina, Queensland, 1899
A devastating storm struck Bathurst Bay in far north Queensland. Over 400 people were killed, the highest death toll from a natural disaster in Australia's history. The death toll included crews of around 100 pearling fleet vessels and an estimated 100 indigenous people.