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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Aug 01, 1963
Page
15
A tiny flotilla of sailing boats glided into central Melbourne as Sabots from the Royal Brighton Yacht Club contested a novel Princes Bridge to Morell Bridge and return race. One man yachts added color to a dull day in the city center.
After a year of secrecy the Air Force disclosed details of secret launches tied to a Honolulu recovery team. Discoverer 13 became the first man made object retrieved from space on August 11, 1960, landing in the Pacific. The program aimed to perfect reconnaissance satellites and warning systems for ballistic missile launches.
A Northern Rhodesia farm family in Central Province welcomed a baby boy named Census after an enumerator paused to finish the household survey. The father, a farm labourer, agreed to the unusual name prompted by the census moment.
Two girls aged 14 and 16 died when a landslide buried parts of Takoradi after heavy rain. Several houses were partially buried, and rescue teams searched debris in the West Ghana city on Monday.
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