1854 - Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licenses
1967 - 1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War ov…
