The Liberal Movement was a minor South Australian political party in the 1970s. Stemming from discontent within the ranks of the Liberal and Country League, it was organised in 1972 by former premier Steele Hall as an internal group in response to a perceived resistance to sought reform within its parent. A year later, when tensions heightened between the LCL's conservative wing and the LM, it was established in its own right as a progressive liberal party. When still part of the league, it had eleven parliamentarians; on its own, it was reduced to three. In the federal election of 1974, it succeeded in having Hall elected to the Australian Senate with a primary vote of 10 per cent in South Australia. It built upon this in the 1975 state election, gaining almost a fifth of the total vote and an additional member. However, the non-Labor parties narrowly failed to dislodge the incumbent Dunstan Labor government. That result, together with internal weaknesses, led in 1976 to the LM's being re-absorbed into the LCL, which by then had become the South Australian division of the Liberal Party of Australia. The LM and its successor parties gave voice to what is termed "small-l liberalism" in Australia. (more...)

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1707:

In one of the greatest maritime disasters in the history of the British Isles, more than 1,400 sailors on four Royal Navy ships were lost in stormy weather off the Isles of Scilly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilly_naval_disaster_of_1707

1879:

Thomas Edison performed a successful test using a carbon filament thread in an incandescent light bulb , which would become the most successful version of the product. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/incandescent_light_bulb

1907:

A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, which triggered the Panic of 1907. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

1962:

Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that Soviet nuclear weapons had been discovered in Cuba and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the island nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

2008:

India launched Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar mission. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1

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