The 1956 Summer Olympics was held in Australia. As was the custom, the Olympic flame was lighted in Olympia, months before the games started, and the lighted torch was flown half way across the globe to Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory. From Darwin, the flame was sent by airplane to Cairns, in Queensland, from where the torch was carried on foot by various torchbearers via cities along the East Coast such as Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and finally, to Melbourne, the host city. Along the way, runners were troubled by heat, soaked in torrential rain, and the torch itself broke when it fell to the ground in Lismore. Then, in Sydney, something funny happened.
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Australian junior mile world record holder, Ron Clarke, lights the cauldron in Melbourne to signal the beginning of the 1956 Summer Olympics. Photo: XVI Olympiad Melbourne 1956/Carrying the Torch
Source: amusingplanet.com