3.6K views · 165 reactions | 65 years ago #OnThisDay 22 November 1956, the Summer Olympics commenced in Melbourne. In two hours of supreme spectacle, an MCG crowd of 103,000 watched 314 Australians march into the arena, heard the Duke of Edinburgh declare the 1956 Olympic Games open and saw athlete Ron Clarke light the cauldron. | I Grew Up in Mortdale 2223 | Facebook

10K views · 77 reactions | #OnThisDay A promising 19-year-old Ron Clarke lights the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. | Australian Olympic Team | Facebook

2M views · 1.7K shares | Strength of Olympic champions 56 years apart. Melbourne 1956 – London 2012 #tbt #weightlifting | Olympics | Facebook

#OnThisDay in 1956, the XVI Summer Olympic Games open in Melbourne, Australia; the first to be held in Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as the first Olympics to be held outside of Europe and North America. #SummerOlympicGames #SportHistory #OlympicMuseum | Richmond Olympic Oval | Facebook

281K views · 611 reactions | #OnThisDay, 63 years ago, the team of Strickland, Croker, Mellor and Cuthbert won the women's 4x100m relay in World Record time (44.5) at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games!  Olympic | Australian Olympic Team | Facebook