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Mass Production
Mass production of items of any kind started more or less in the industrial era in the early 1900s, and changed the average wage, unemployment rates and the cost of living. -
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World War I
The first World War was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war -
The Treaty of Versaillies
The Treaty of Versaillies was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -
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The Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a feature of the 1920s (ending with The Great Depression) when jazz music and dance became popular. This occurred particularly in the United States, but also in Britain, France and elsewhere. -
The Invention of the Television
The idea of the television had started in the 1900s, but was finally invented in 1925 by John Logie Baird. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. -
Market Crash of 1929
The market crash of 1929 or 'black tuesday' refers to October 29, 1929, five days after the United States stock market crash of Black Thursday, when general panic set in that everyone with investments in the market tried to pull out of the market at once. This week and its aftermath marked the start of the Great Depression in the United States. -
Day of Mourning
It was the 150th anniversary of the first fleet's landing in Australia, and marked as a day of mourning to the Aboriginal peoples who had occupied this land for 60,000 years previously -
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World War II
It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries. In a state of "total war", the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians. -
Attack on Pearl Harbour
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. -
Bombing of Darwin
On this day, 242 Japanese aircraft attacked ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields in an attempt to prevent the Allies from using them as bases to contest the invasions of Timor and Java. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Decloration of Human Rights
The Declaration was drafted in 1948 as a response to the war crimes in World War II perpetrated by the Nazis & Japanese. -
Melborne Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1956, apart from the equestrian events, which were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden. -
Invention of the Internet
There is no one exact individual inventor of the internet, instead it has changed over time. It was invented as a government weapon by America in 1957 -
First Man in Space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict and is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction (MAD) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream..." Speech
On the 28 august 1963 Martin Luther King jr delivered his world famous ‘’I have a dream’’ speech, where he speaks about equality of former black slaves and their children in America. -
Rredom Rides 1965
Some students toured in a bus in rural New South Wales to talk about the appalling state of aboriginal health, education and housing. They became the Student Action for Aborigines and had media coverage throughout the event. -
Invention of the Mobile Phone
Martin Cooper may not be a household name, but his invention is familiar to more than half the planet's population who own a mobile phone. The concept of a handheld phone was his brainchild, and with the help of his Motorola team, the first handset was born in 1973 weighing in at two kilos -
Crocodile Dundee
Impossibly popular throughout western film markets Crocodile Dundee was the "world-wide hit" of 1986. Doubly exceptional was the enthusiasm with which it was taken up both in Australia and overseas. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
