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1950 - Australia
commits troops to the UN forces in the Korean war.
1950
onwards – Catherine works as Insurance Agent for Manufacturers Mutual Insurance
Company, Sydney. She commenced as writer to the manager and later became an
agent of the company. Catherine also had a close friendship over several years
with a man by the name of Egon.
1950 onwards –
Catherine works as Interpreter and Translator for the courts in Sydney, NSW.
She also undertakes work as a paralegal capacity for migrant cases.
1951 World Events: Color TV Introduced; South Africans Forced
to Carry ID Cards Identifying Race; Truman Signs Peace Treaty With Japan,
Officially Ending WWII.
1952 World Events: Car Seat Belts Introduced; Jacques
Cousteau Discovers Ancient Greek Ship; Polio Vaccine Created; Princess
Elizabeth Becomes Queen at Age 25.
1953 World Events: DNA Discovered; Hillary and Norgay Climb
Mt. Everest; Joseph Stalin Dies.
1954 World Events: First Atomic Submarine Launched; Report
Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer; Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile;
Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S.
1955 World Events: Disneyland Opens; McDonald's Corporation
Founded; Warsaw Pact Signed.
1956 World Events: Hungarian Revolution; Khrushchev Denounces
Stalin; Suez Crisis; T.V. Remote Control Invented; Velcro Introduced .
1956 - Olympic
Games held in Melbourne.
1957 World Events: European Economic Community Established;
Soviet Satellite Sputnik Launches Space Age.
1957 – Catherine
obtains Australian Citizenship at a ceremony officiated by Lord Mayor, Alderman
Harry Jensen at the Sydney Town Hall, 12 July.
1958 World Events: Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the
"Great Leap Forward"; Hula Hoops Become Popular; Lego Toy Bricks
First Introduced; NASA Founded.
1959 World Events: Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba;
International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve.
1960 World Events: Lasers Invented.
1961 World Events: Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in
Holocaust; Bay of Pigs Invasion; Berlin Wall Built; Peace Corps Founded;
Soviets Launch First Man in Space.
1962 World Events: Cuban Missile Crisis; First Person Killed
Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall.
1963 World Events: JFK Assassinated.
1964 World Events: Beatles Become Popular in U.S.
1965 World Events: Japan's Bullet Train Opens; U.S. Sends
Troops to Vietnam.
1965 - Australia
commits troops to the US war effort in Vietnam.
1965 – Catherine
and Fred move to “The Gordon” heritage building in Kings Cross with a view over
Fitzroy gardens and the attractive Alamein Fountain.
1966 World Events: Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural
Revolution.
1967 World Events: First Heart Transplant; First Super Bowl;
Six-Day War in the Middle East.
1967 – Catherine
journeyed across the globe through Bangkok, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Rhodesia, Roumania,
Russia, Spain, USA.
1967 - National
referendum on changes to constitution is passed. Section which excluded
Aboriginal people from official census is removed. Another change enables
federal government to pass laws on Aboriginal issues.
1968 World Events: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated; Tet
Offensive.
1969 World Events: ARPANET, the Precursor of the Internet,
Created; Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon; Rock-and-Roll Concert
at Woodstock; Yasser Arafat Becomes Leader of the PLO.
1970 – Catherine
went on a world tour through Austria, China, France, the Greek Islands, Japan,
Hungary, Mexico, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland.
1970 World Events: American Soldiers Accused of Murdering
Entire Town of Vietnamese Civilians; Aswan High Dam Completed; Beatles Break
Up; Computer Floppy Disks Introduced.
1971 World Events: London Bridge Brought to the U.S.; United
Kingdom Changes to Decimal System for Currency; VCRs Introduced.
1972 World Events: M*A*S*H T.V. Shows Premiers; Pocket Calculators Introduced;
Terrorists Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich.
1973 World Events: Abortion Legalized in U.S.; U.S. Pulls Out
of Vietnam; U.S. Vice President Resigns.
1973 – Catherine
travels through Bangkok, Czechoslovakia, England, Greece, Hungary.
1974 World Events: Terracotta Army Discovered in China; U.S.
President Nixon Resigns.
1975 World Events: Civil War in Lebanon; Microsoft Founded;
Pol Pot Becomes the Communist Dictator of Cambodia.
1975 - Australia
introduces new immigration laws, restricting the number of unskilled workers
allowed into the country.
The
government of Gough Whitlam is plagued by resignations and the blocking of its
budget by the upper house of the parliament. In an unprecedented move, the
governor-general, Sir John Kerr, dismisses the government. A caretaker
administration under Malcolm Fraser is installed.
1975 – Catherine
travelled through British Columbia, Canada, Norway, Hungary, Israel.
1976 World Events: North and South Vietnam Join to Form the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Tangshan Earthquake Kills Over 240,000.
1977 World Events: Elvis Found Dead.
1977 – Catherine
journeyed on a world tour through Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany,
Hungary, Iran (then Persia), Israel, Singapore, USA, Yugoslovakia.
1978 World Events: First Test-Tube Baby Born; John Paul II
Becomes Pope.
1978 – Catherine
enjoyed a holiday through Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Czechoslovakia, China,
Colombia, Egypt, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jersey,
Guernsey, Macao, New Hebrides, Noumea, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, USA.
1979 World Events: Ayatollah Khomeini Returns as Leader of
Iran; Nuclear Accident at Three Mile Island; Sony Introduces the Walkman.
1979 – Catherine’s
travels took her through Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador,
Hungary, Panama, Peru.
1980 World Events: Rubik's Cube Popular.
1981 World Events: Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM.
1981 – Catherine is
appointed as Justice of the Peace by the NSW Minister of Justice, 29 July. The same
year she went on a world tour through Egypt, Guernsey, Jersey, Hungary, Norway,
Sweden.
1982 World Events: E.T. Movie Released; Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina.
1982 – Catherine
went on a world tour of Bangkok, Belgium, England, Germany, Gibraltar, Hong
Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Malaysia, Malta, New Zealand, Portugal, Roumania,
Russia, Singapore, Spain, Turkey, USA.
1983 World Events: Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star
Wars.
1983 – Catherine
traveled to England, France, Hungary, Malta, Russia, USA.
1984 World Events: Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India.
1984 – Catherine
went on an European tour through Germany, Hungary, Roumania.
1985 World Events: Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered;
Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika; New Coke
Hits the Market; Wreck of the Titanic Found.
1985 – Catherine
went on a world tour through England, Gibraltar, Hungary, India.
1986 World Events: Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes; Chernobyl Nuclear
Accident; U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station.
1986 - The
Australia Act makes Australian law fully independent of the British parliament
and legal system. There is no longer any provision for Australian courts to
mount final appeals to the Privy Council in London.
1986 – Catherine’s
brother Fred passed away. He was buried at the Jewish section in the Botany
Cemetery, grave No.85. The same year Catherine went on the last of her travels
through France, Hungary, Ireland.
1987 World Events: DNA First Used to Convict Criminals.
1988 World Events: Berlin Wall Falls; Exxon Valdez
Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline; Students Massacred in China's
Tiananmen Square.
1989 World Events: Hubble Telescope Launched Into Space;
Nelson Mandela Freed.
Turning
to Asia
1991 World Events: Bronze Age Man Found Frozen in Glacier;
Collapse of the Soviet Union; Operation Desert Storm; South Africa Repeals
Apartheid Laws.
1991
- Catherine meets Justice
Keppel Enderby at the Australian Esperanto Association. Justice Enderby would
later write the Introduction section of Catherine’s autobiography.
1992 World Events: Official End of the Cold War; Riots in Los
Angeles After the Rodney King Verdict.
1992 - The
Citizenship Act is amended to remove swearing an oath of allegiance to the
British Crown. Prime Minister Paul Keating's Labour government pledges to make
Australia a republic and to concentrate on links with Asia.
1993 World Events: Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially;
World Trade Center Bombed.
1993 - Keating wins
elections. The Native Title Act establishes a process for the granting of
Aboriginal land rights.
1994 World Events: Channel Tunnel Opens, Connecting Britain
and France.
1995 World Events: Ebola Virus Spreads in Zaire.
1996 World Events: Mad Cow Disease Hits Britain
1996 - Keating
defeated in elections. John Howard of the Liberal Party becomes prime minister.
1997 World Events: Hong Kong Returned to China; Princess
Diana Dies in Car Crash; Scientists Clone Sheep; Tallest Buildings in the World
Built in Kuala Lumpur.
1997 – Catherine
opens and manages a charity stall at the Kings Cross weekend markets. The stall
opens every Sunday 6am through to 4pm.
1998 World Events: India and Pakistan Test Nuclear Weapons;
Viagra on the Market.
1998 - Elections
see Howard's Liberal and National party coalition re-elected, but with a
reduced majority. Delegates to a constitutional convention vote to replace
Queen Elizabeth II as head of state with a president chosen by parliament. The
issue is put to a referendum in 1999. The proposal is defeated, with 55% voting
to retain the status quo.
1999 World Events: The Euro the New European Currency; Fear
of Y2K Bug.
2000 World Events: USS Cole Attacked in Aden; President
Hafez al-Assad Dies; Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Becomes President of Turkey; Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon.
2000 - Australia
hosts the Olympic Games in Sydney, the most popular ever.
2000: People
of the Cross - Catherine Gluck OAM. Article by Emma Scott in the CrossLines
Newsletter. Also Catherine Gluck and Marta Reiss named as Gold Sponsors of the
Sydney Olympic Jewish Organising Committee. SOJOC.
Australian
Honours List - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) awarded to Catherine
Gluck. For service to the Jewish community in New South Wales as a
philanthropist.
2001 World Events: War on Terrorism begins; Terrorists
destroy World Trade Center in New York City; Battle of Operation Enduring
Freedom; Battle of Mazar-I-Sharif; Battle of Kunduz; Battle of Kandahar.
2001: Australian
Honours List - Centenary Medal awarded to Catherine Gluck. For service to the
community through charity work for the disadvantaged.
2001 January -
Australia celebrates 100 years since its inauguration as the Commonwealth of
Australia.
2001 February - Sir
Donald Bradman, Australia's most famous cricketer, dies at the age of 92.
2001
May
- Churches rebuke Prime Minister John Howard for failing properly to
acknowledge suffering of thousands of Aborigines under past assimilation
policy. Howard has refused to apologise to "Stolen Generations" of
Aborigines who as children were forcibly removed from their parents to live
with whites.
2001
August
- Australia turns away hundreds of boat people over several months, the most
prominent group having been rescued from a sinking ferry. Australia pays Nauru
to detain many of them.
2002 World Events: U.N. Security Council passes resolution
demanding that Iraq disarm.
2002 - Aid
agencies, rights groups and UN report criticise policy of holding asylum
seekers in detention camps until their visa applications are processed. Woomera
desert camp in South Australia sees riots, hunger strikes and escapes.
Bali
bombing
2002
October
- The nation mourns as 88 of its citizens are killed in a night club bombing in
Bali, Indonesia, which some call Australia's September 11.
2003 World Events: Operation Iraqi Freedom begins; U.S.
strikes targets near Baghdad.
2003 January -
Australia deploys troops to the Gulf ahead of a possible war. The move sparks
public protests.
Bushfire
ravages the capital, Canberra. More than 500 homes are destroyed. Other fires
rage across New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania.
2003 February -
Senate passes no-confidence motion against Prime Minister John Howard over his
handling of Iraq crisis. It is Senate's first-ever vote of no-confidence in
serving leader.
2003
May
- Governor-General Peter Hollingworth resigns after admitting that, as an
Anglican archbishop in the 1990s, he allowed a known paedophile remain a
priest.
2003 July -
Australia heads peacekeeping force intended to restore order in troubled
Solomon Islands.
2004 February -
Race riots in district of Sydney, sparked by death of Aboriginal teenager.
2004 March -
Parliamentary committee clears government of lying about threat posed by
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In July, report details intelligence
failings over Iraq, Bali bombings, but clears government of manipulating Iraq
intelligence.
2004 April – Catherine’s website published at www.oocities.org/catherine_Glück
including complete full versions of
her published works. Also, Fred’s posthumous website published at www.oocities.org/frederick_lamberger
2004 August -
Government announces a multi-million dollar cruise missile programme, set to
give Australia the region's "most lethal" air combat capacity.
2004 September -
Bomb attack outside Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, kills at least
nine, injures dozens more.
2004
World Events: Asian Tsunami kills 230,000 people.
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