Hefner and the history of the pin-up
Hugh Hefner has left a legacy of a magazine that changed the way the world thought about naked women in publishing.
Today In History
How the Melbourne Olympics was almost axed
WHEN Melbourne was having problems with its preparations for the Olympic Games, a visit from Avery Brundage IOC president in 1955 put a fire under them to get things right.
King was queen of the court in Battle of Sexes
WHEN fading tennis star Bobby Riggs wanted to make a point that he could beat the best female tennis player of the day, he picked the best, Billie Jean King, and lost the battle of the sexes.
Wallis was the original Dam Buster
WHEN CSIRO needed expertise to help them design the Parkes radio telescope they turned to one of the greatest engineering minds of the day — British inventor Barnes Wallis.
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Naked frolic on the stage of decency
This week, New York comedy act the Wau Wau Sisters strip down to bare their own grudges against moral absurdity for the Festival of Sydney in Naked as the Day They Were Born Again.
Germans turned gas into deadly advantage at Ypres
Chlorine was first described as a deadly agent in trench warfare a century ago.
Blood in the dust of Broken Hill
A century ago four people died in a gunfight between cameleers and New Year revellers on the dusty plains of far western NSW.
Long road to a Runaway hit
In the billing for his first Australian tour, American rocker Del Shannon was introduced as a 22-year-old “keen fisherman”. In truth he was almost 27 and married with two children.
Art as a tool to protest evil
Born 100 years ago today, Australian artist Albert Tucker was shaped by his sensitive nature, the poverty of his Depression-era childhood and the suffering of wounded soldiers
First Hobart race sailed into a perfect storm
CHEERS, handclaps and honking car horns greeted the ketch Wayfarer when she finally sailed into Hobart, 11 days after setting sail on the first Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
Deadly Christmas as Tracy flattened Darwin
Forty years ago as cyclone Tracy turned sharply towards Darwin, staff at the Darwin Weather Bureau were enjoying a Christmas party.
Winston always came first, second and third
The Churchill’s marriage played out against European destruction in two world wars and the Cold War. At home, blow-ups and slamming doors were mere “summer storms”.
Kamikazes struck 70 years ago today
On October 21, 1944, a Japanese pilot smashed his plane into the bridge of HMAS Australia. And so the suicide cult of the kamikaze pilots was born.
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