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Invention of television
In Englan, 1878 John Loggie Baird, who was a scottish amatuer scientist successfully transmitted the first TV Picture. after years of work, in 1926, with his mechanical system. Baird’s system used a mechanical camera consisting of a large spinning disc, with a spiral of holes that Paul Nipkow had developed in 1884. -
Mass production
By the early 1900's gasoline cars began to outsell other type of motor vehicles. The market was growing for economical automobiles and the need for industrial production was pressing. The first car manufacturers in the world were French: Panhard & Levassor (1889) and Peugeot (1891). -
End of WWI
WWI ended when all the countries from the central powers signing an armistice agreement. Germany wa the last country to sign this agreement on the 11th of November, 1918. As a result of this Austria-Hungary was broken up into several smaller countries. -
The Jazz Age
the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties - everybody seemed to have money. The nightmare that was the Wall Street Crash of October 1929, was inconceivable right up until it happened. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and largest economic downturn. In the US The great depression began just after the Stock market crash in october of 1929. By 1933 the Great Depression reached its lowest point, with 13 million US people unemployed and nearly half of the countries banks failed. -
1938 Day of Mourning
The Day od Mourning is the 150th anniversary of the first fleet landing in Austalia. For some people it is a day to mourn and for others it is a day to celebrate. -
Start of WWII
just before Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland that marked the beginning of World War II. Zygmunt Klukowski, a young Polish doctor, confided in his diary that everyone was talking about war. "Everybody," he continued, "is sure that we will win." The reality was startlingly different. -
Japanese Attack of Pearl Harbour
Just before 8:00 am on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attacks lasted two hours, The Japanese had managed to destroy 20 American and 200 airplanes, more than 2,000 american soldiers and sailors died in the attack. -
Bombing of Darwin
Mainland of Australia was under attack by Japanese forces for the first time when they mounted two air strikes on the city of Darwin. The attacks were planned by the commander of te Pearl Harbour attack just weeks earlier. -
Market Crash of 1929
On the 29th of October wall street went into lockdown as investors traded 16 million shares on the New York stock Exchange in one day. Billions of dollars were lost as a resultof the crash and also wiped out thousands of investors. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
The Uited States of America used a huge atomic weapon against Japan. The bomb was the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. The USA did this because they wanted to stop Japan contributing to th war. -
Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the international statement to use the term 'human rights' which has been adopted by the human rights movement. -
Melbourne Olympics
The Summer Melborne Olympics was the first olympics held in Australia. It was the first olympics that was held outside of Europe or the United states. -
Invention of the internet
The invention of the internet all started in the US 50 years ago as a weapon in the cold war. For many years scientist and researchers had used it to communicate and share data. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In Octber of 1962 an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being buil by the Soviet Union on Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to find out about his findings, so he met with his secret advisers just days later. After days of meeting Kennedy had decided to place a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviets bringing more nuclear missiles their. -
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream…” speech
Martin Luther King, Jr. became the predominant leader in the Civil Rights Movement to end racial segregation and discrimination in America during the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1964 and was selected by Time magazine as its Man of the Year. His "I Have a Dream" speech, which is now considered to be among the great speeches of American history. -
Australian Freedom Rides
A group of students from the University of Sydney, organised a bus tour of western and coastal New South Wales towns. Their aim was to draw attention to the poor state of Aboriginal health, education and housing. -
Invention of mobile phone
Martin Cooper at the time of discovering the mobile phone was an executive of Motorola. Cooper had led at team that had designed the first practical mobile phone. The pone was named the Motorola DynaTAC, it was 9 inches in length and weighed 1.1 kilograms. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee is an Australian movie set in the American Outback and New York City. Paul Hogan is the main character ho plays Mick Dundee. Te film was produced on a bugdet of 10 million as a deliberate attempt to produce a commercial film that would appeal to America, but instead it was a world wide phenomenon. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The communist government of the German Democratic Republic begun to build a barb wired and concrete wall. The wall was designed to keep western fascists from entering eastern Germany. The wall stayed up for 28 years when it finally was knocked down. -
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. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris