Husband too late to prevent Judy Garland’s lonely death
Mickey Deans made a terrible discovery 50 years ago today, when he had to climb in through a bathroom window after receiving no response from his wife Judy Garland
Today In History
Coal miners’ strike left public out in the cold
Seventy years ago Australia was shivering through a harsh winter because of a coal strike, but while houses were cold the political climate was heating up
Aussie inventor freed women from corsets
It took an Australian inventor to give women a comfortable alternative to the form of fashion torture known as the corset
Baseball’s ‘luckiest man’ gave name to disease
Baseball star Lou Gehrig had a terrible season in 1938 but when things got worse in 1939 he discovered the reason was that he had contracted an incurable disease
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Villers-Bretonneux also saw battle for war dead memorial
AUSTRALIA’S World War I memorial opened 80 years ago by King George VI took almost 20 years to complete.
Diana Rigg pursued equal pay with a vengeance
WHEN Diana Rigg realised she was being paid less than the camera man for her popular role as Emma Peel in The Avengers, she went into action.
Brunel’s SS Great Britain carried 15,000 to a new world
WHEN SS Great Britain made its first voyage to Australia in 1852 it promised to shorten the voyage by months.
Australia campaigned for Mandela’s freedom
BORN a century ago today, Mandela was a hero to millions of people worldwide but he disappointed indigenous Australians when he visited in 1990.
Titanic’s rescue ship sunk by German sub
AS the ship Carpathia headed to America a century ago it was shadowed by a German U-boat that sent it to the bottom of the ocean
Convent girl ‘killed one man to save thousands’
FRENCH beauty Charlotte Corday believed killing Jean Marat, 225 years ago, would save thousands of lives.
Innocent dance night led to horror on moors
PAULINE Reade, 16, was off to a suburban dance in 1963 when she became the first victim of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
English girl, 11, named Pluto
WHEN retired Oxford librarian Falconer Madan was reading the London Times in March 1930 while dining with his granddaughter Venetia, he pointed out an article about the discovery of a new planet which was yet to be named.
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