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Federation-Australia becomes a new nation.
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Australian First serve in Boer war
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First Aeroplane flight,by the Wright brothers.
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an estimate of 1,514 people died.
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Australia enters World war 1.
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The ANZAC's (Australian & New Zealand Army Corps) land at Gallipoli.Many take there lives and for there family's.
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Landing of Australian and other troops at Gallipoli.
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The Inflenza Epidemic after the first World War ending up killing more than the war.
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End of world war 1-an estimated 12 million dead.
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QANTANS starts flying planes in Australia.
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The start of the great depression.
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Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup.
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First Australian-born Govener-General,Sir Isaac Isaacs,appointed.
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Last Tasmanian tiger dies in captivity.
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Australia enters world war 2
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Australian scientist Howard florey discovers how to mass-produce penicillin,thus saving millions of lives around the world.
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Japnese submarines raid in Sydney Harbour.
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Darwin is bombed for the first time during World War 2.
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Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The first mass-produced car in Australia,the holden,is completed.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations.
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First Australian involvement in United nations peacekeeping,in Indonesia.
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Korean War Ends.
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'Rock Around The Clock' by Bill Hayley and the Comets starts the rock'n roll era.
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Melbourne hosts the Olympic games.
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First satellite in space,Sputnic.
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First dog in space,Laika.
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First human in space,Yuri Gagarin.
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First human heart transplant-in South Africa.
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First Australian soliers sent to south Vietnam.
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Decimal currency replaces pounds,shillings and pence.
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First human to set foot on the moon.
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Australian troops withdrawn from Vietnam.
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Cyclon tacey wrecks Darwin.
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Elvis Presley dies
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Azaria Chamberlain taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock (Uluru)
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The film "Gallipoli" released.
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Ash wednesday killed 72 people in the bushfiresin Victoria and South Australia.
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South West Tasmania is placed on the World Heritage list.
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The victor motor mower is invented.
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First colour tv broadcast in Australia.
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Newcastle Earthquake
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First Australian woamn Premier,Carmen Lawrence,WA.
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The Beatles tour Australia.
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Rabbit calicivirus disease accidentally released.
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Port Arhtur massacre in Tasmania.
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Princess Diana died in a car crash unfortunetly she was dead when the before the ambulance got there.
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Australian troops go to East Timor as peacekeepers
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World population reaches six billion.
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Sydney hosts the Olympic games.
