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Federation of Australia
On the 1st of January, Australia became an independent nation. The British Parliament passed legislation allowing the six colonies to govern in their own right as part of the Commonwealth of Australia. -
Wright Brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright were American brothers that are known as inventors and pioneers of aviation. The brothers are generally creditied for builiding and flying the world's first powered, succesful and controlled airplane flight. -
Sinking of RMS Titanic
At 2:20 a.m. on April 14 1912, the Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before causing it to sink. The incident had killed between 1,490 and 1,635 deaths. -
World War I breaks out
In the 20th century, European nations formed competing military alliances. War broke out in 1914 when Serbian nationalist assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria. Causing Autsria to start war against Serbia, resulting to many other countries to join in.There was two sides; The Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy) and the Triple Entente (France, Russia and Britain -
Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic.
In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, but the clinic was immediately shut down by police, and Sanger was sentenced to 30 days in jail. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust occurred during World War II when Hitle was the leader of Germany. Hitler mainly targeted Jewish people. The Nazis killed as many as 1 million Jewish children. Hitler also killed people he didnt like including Polish people, Catholics, Serbs and handicapped people. It is thought that the Nazis murdered as many as 17 million innocent people. -
Japan Bombs Pearl Harbour
The Japanese send a surpise bombing on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii Territory. The bombing Killed more than 2,300 Americans. This marked the beginning of American involvement in the Pacific Ocean in World War II -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb known as Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The explosion was massive, it had destroyed the city and tens of thousands of people were killed.
The bomb was dropped by a plane named the Enola Gay which was piloted by a man named Colonel Paul Tibbetts. The bomb itself was over 10 feet long and weighed around 10,000 pounds. -
Melbourne Hosts Olympic Games
The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956. -
Congress outlaws segregation
This act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
MLK Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr., was an American clergyman and civil rights leader. He was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. MLK was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. It is believed that James Earl Ray confirmed racist and small-time criminal, confessed to shooting and killing the revered civil rights leader. -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission organised by NASA, the American space agency to send people to the moon and return them back home safely. The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin while Collins flew above them. -
Soviet war in Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, maid up of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. The Peshawar Seven insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as weapons and billions of dollars from the United States and United Kingdom. -
United Nations forms, replacing League of Nations
The League of Nations (LON) was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. -
Princess Diana dies
On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died after being involved in a car accident. Diana had been riding in a Mercedes-Benz with her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, her bodyguard and also chauffer when her car crashed into a tunnel under the Pont de I'Alma bridge in Paris while fleeing from paparazzi.
