Memories of devastating 1955 Maitland floods live on
The Maitland floods of 1955 took a huge toll on lives and property, like 21 houses on one street washing downstream and fell apart. But there were also amazing stories of survival.
Today In History
Mortuary train took dead bodies to final burial place
From 1867 to 1938, the richest Sydney residents along with the poorest were taken to be buried the same way — by a special train to Rookwood Cemetery.
Acting triumph of the other Richard Burton
It was a great acting triumph, Richard Burton acted the part of a pilgrim on the way to Mecca so that he could write about what he saw. Not Burton the Welsh actor but Burton the 19th century linguist and adventurer
Newtown housewife who used poison to kill two husbands
When Yvonne Fletcher’s second husband died in a similar manner to her first, police soon discovered the reason why — poison — which sparked a surge of copycat cases, predominantly by Sydney housewives.
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Pythons raised hell with Brian’s biblical romp
Protesters were out in force for the premiere of Monty Python’s Life Of Brian but they only served to make more people want to see it
Convicts chased freedom from Tasmania to China
When the transport ship Cyprus was becalmed at Recherche Bay in Van Diemen’s Land a group of convicts decided their chance of freedom had arrived
Woodstock defied chaos to define its generation
The town of Bethel had never seen so many people but it became the setting for a generation defining moment in rock history
Master of thrillers had a lifelong fear of police
When an advertising man took a punt on a job at a film studio he took the first step to becoming one of Hollywood’s greatest film directors
Peace Regatta a sweet victory for our Diggers
One minute the men were fighting for their lives in the blasted battlefields of World War I. Th e next they were rowing to victory between the soft green banks of the River Thames
Fender guitar creator could not play a note
The Fender guitar is the instrument of choice for many guitarists, but the man who created it was unable to play his own instrument
Manson set on path to murder in childhood
A scruffy bearded cult leader turned from petty crime to murder based on his strange ideas about a global race war
Alice steered her crew into legend on epic drive
Today it would be considered a merry jaunt but 110 years ago when Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco, it had been an epic journey from New York by car
Beatles strode out of studio and into legend
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr walked out of their studio and into one of pop music’s most recognised images
Standover man murdered at rival gang’s party
When a well-dressed man crashed a party in Darlinghurst it ended in a gunfight which ended the life of notorious gangster Guido Calletti
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