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Mass production
Henry Ford was determined to build a simple, reliable and affordable car; a car the average American worker could afford. Out of this determination came the Model T and the assembly line - two innovations that revolutionized American society and molded the world we live in today. -
End of WW1
At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War--known at the time as the Great War--comes to an end. -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles, signed on 28 June 1919 by Germany and the Allied powers at the Palace of Versailles. A sizeable document, the treaty featured some 440 Articles, with the addition of numerous Annexes. -
The Jazz Age
Culturally and socially, the Roaring Twenties were a heady time of rapid change, artistic innovation, and high-society antics. Popular culture roared to life as the economy boomed. -
Invention of television
the first experimental television transmissions were made in 1926 by the Scot engineer John Logie Baird. However, the first television channel was opend in 1936 by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), transmitting from their television studios in London. -
Market Crash of 1929
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 devastated the economy and was a key factor in beginning the Great Depression. -
The great Depression
The Great Depression, which lasted from 1929 to the early 1940s, was a severe economic downturn caused by an overly-confident, over-extended stock market and a drought that struck the South. -
1938 Day of Mourning
January 26 1938 was the 150th anniversary of the landing of the First Fleet in Australia. Those who mourned, were kept waiting until the parade passed by before they could march in ‘silent protest from the Town Hall to the Australian Hall in Elizabeth Street, …they weren’t allowed in by the front door – they had to come in through the back. -
Start of WWII
Adolf Hitler invaded Poland throwing the world in to war. Before Hitler could invade Poland he had to neutralize the possibility that the Soviet Union would resist. -
Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbour
America was a nutria country in the Second World War until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour pulling America into the war. At 8:00 am the Japanese bombers unleashed hell on the American fleet docked in Pearl Harbour killing 2,000 people and wounding 1,000. -
Bombing of Darwin
On 19 February 1942 mainland Australia came under attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin. The two attacks, which were planned and led by the commander responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbour ten weeks earlier, involved 54 land-based bombers and approximately 188 attack aircraft which were launched from four Japanese aircraft-carriers in the Timor Sea. -
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948. Motivated by the experiences of the preceding world wars, the Universal Declaration was the first time that countries agreed on a comprehensive statement of inalienable human rights. -
Melbourne Olympics
The Melbourne 1956 Games was the first time Australia hosted the Olympics. In many ways, it was the Games that took the Olympics to the world. It was the first Games held outside of Europe or the United States, the first Games held in the southern hemisphere, the first Games where live television broadcasts captured the public’s imagination, and the first Games in which all the athletes walked together as one in the Closing Ceremony. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a wall to separate East Berlin from West Berlin. This wall stood for nearly 30 years. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream…” speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ on the steps of Lincoln Memorial during the Washington’s march for Jobs and Freedom. Martins Luther King speech is among the most acclaimed in U.S history. -
Australian Freedom Rides
In February 1965 a group of University of Sydney students organised a bus tour of western and coastal New South Wales towns.The students planned to draw public attention to the poor state of Aboriginal health, education and housing. -
Invention of the internet
the idea for the Internet came from the American Departmet of defence for the purpose of military telecommunication. this first system was developed in1969, with the name of Arpanet. it was originally devised of a method of communication in emergency situations, which would continue working when other systems of communication had been damaged. -
Invention of mobile phone
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years today, on April 3, 1973, by Motorola employee Martin Cooper. Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world's first commercial cell phone, Cooper stood near a 900 MHz base station on Sixth Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets, in New York City and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
"Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. -
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
UNICEF’s work is guided by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The most internationally recognised treaty on the planet, the Convention sets out the basic rights of children and the obligations of governments to fulfil those rights.