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On the 26th of January 1938, Australians celebrated the 150 year anniversary of the first fleet's landing. A group of Aboriginal Australians gathered in front of Australia Hall in Sydney to remember the past 150 years of struggling. -
On the 24th of October 1945, The United Nations was officially formed in San Francisco, California, United States of America. The United Nations was founded by 51 members in 1945. The UN’s goal was to bring peace to the world and to prevent another major world war. -
On the 10th of December 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was voted for in Paris with 48 members of the 58 UN members with no votes against, 8 countries abstaining and Yemen and Honduras not voting or abstaining. -
On the 17th of May 1954, the US Supreme Court voted that racial segregation in American Public schools went directly against the 14th amendment within the American Constitution. -
On the 1st of December 1955 Rosa Parks, A black woman living in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. Parks was arrested for this ‘crime’ which started the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Martin Luther King delivered the I have a Dream speech to more than 200,000 civil rights activists in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the 28th of August 1963. -
In 1965 Charles Perkins, one of the first black people to graduate from university in Australia decided to gather 30 students and travel around Australia to share the news of his horrible living conditions because of his heritage. -
On the 27th of May 1967, The Australian Government held a Referendum to recognise Aboriginals as people and not just things that have no rights. In the end 90% of Australians Voted for the Recognition of Aboriginal people. -
On the 4th of April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a Sniper while on the 2nd floor of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was staying at the Hotel after leading a nonviolent demonstration in support of striking sanitation workers in that city. -
On the 13th of February 2008 Kevin Rudd apologised to the indigenous Australians for the horrible ways that we have been treating them for the past 200 years.