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Invention of Floppy Disks
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Breakup of The Beatles
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Introduction of Barcodes
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Collapse of the Westgate Bridge
35 people dead. -
Invention of the Cellular Phone Battery
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The country United Arab Emirates was created
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Introduction of Daylight Savings
Introduced to NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT. -
The Soviet Union and NASA send probes to Mars
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Changeover from Farenheit to Celsius for temperature measurement
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Terrorist Attack at the Olympic Games in Munich
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Introduction of Pocket Calculators
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E-mail was introduced
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The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam
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Vietnam War ends
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The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18
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The Sydney Opera House is opened
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Cyclone Tracy destroys Darwin
Cyclone Tracy destroys the city in the early hours of Christmas Day, killing 65 people. -
First colour broadcast ABC TV
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Microsoft founded
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First artificial gene created in a test tube
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Cigarette and Tobacco advertising banned on Radio and TV
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'Advance Australia Fair' becomes Australia's official national anthem
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Elvis Presley dies
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The release of Star Wars movie
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The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney
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First test tube baby was born using in vitro fertilization
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Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Sony Introduces the Walkman
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Australian women win the right to maternity leave