Jimmy Carter has been sworn in as the thirty-ninth President of the United States. He was formerly a farmer who grew peanuts, a naval officer and Governor of the state of Georgia.
The eighty-second victim of the rail disaster at Granville, died today. He was Brian Gordon, twenty-eight years of age, from Penrith, and the last person to be freed alive, ten hours after the accident occurred on Tuesday.
At 4.30 p.m., we were greeted by a heavy thunderstorm, which contained a trace of hail. We later heard that it caused much damage across Sydney.
Englishman Rex Williams (186) defeated Pierre (Perry) Mans (82) on “World Masters’ Snooker”. The latter player was born in South Africa.