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ith a list of bigname stars in the cast and a record production cost, the historical epic had drummed up an enormous amount of hype in the lead-up to its opening.

The film Spartacus, starred Kirk Douglas as the rebellious gladiator, along with Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis, Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov. Costing nearly $12 million dollars to make, Time magazine remarked that it had a budget equal to “the average annual revenue of the Republic of Rome” at the time the title character er lived.

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Tsar Samuel dies in shock after seeing 15,000 defeated Bulgarian soldiers blinded on orders from Byzantine Emperor Basil II.

Tyndale, the Protestant English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake by Catholic authorities for heresy, at Vilvorde, Flanders.

bushrangers hold up the pub at Enngonia in western NSW, and discover that the patrons include two troopers sent to catch them. d,

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died suddenly in his sleep in 2015 from a pulmonary oedema.

of heart failure in 2010.

Lord Alfred Tennyson dies at his home in Surrey.

High Court of Australia sits for the first time, in Melbourne’s Supreme Court building.

Jazz Singer film starring Al Jolson opens in New York, the first full-length feature film to include spoken dialogue.

Mountain River Scheme in NSW is officially completed.

schoolchildren and their teacher, Mary Gibbs, are kidnapped from Faraday state school, Victoria, but escape the next day when their captors go to arrange the ransom.

rock ’n’ roll pioneer Johnny O’keefe dies in Sydney from a drug overdose.

president Anwar Sadat, the man who broke Arab ranks to make peace with Israel, is assassinated in Cairo by Muslim extremists dressed as soldiers during a military parade.

disability activist, author and actor Quentin Kenihan dies aged 43.