Hollywood star Jean Parker was booted from Bondi Beach on November 2, 1951, because her swimsuit was deemed...
Bill Willis became a well-known Sydney identity in his time as the lead bikini inspector on Bondi Beach.The rules applied to both men and women.With thousands of hungry emus decimating wheat crops, the Australian army set out to kill as many as they could on November 2, 1932.
"If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world," officer in command Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith later said.The largest flying boat ever built - the Hughes H-4 Hercules, known as the Spruce Goose - made its only flight on November 2, 1947.
It remains in good condition today and is displayed at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in Oregon.In a landmark trial on November 2, 1960, a UK jury quashed allegations of obscenity against D. H. Lawrence novelThe book garnered notoriety over its use of then-unprintable words and explicit descriptions of sex. Pictured here is the judge's personal version, used in the obscenity trial.
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