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Charles Seeberger invented the modern escalator
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The Commonwealth of Australia is established
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Women granted franchise in Federal elections in Australia
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Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner
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The Wright brothers invent the aeroplane.
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New class of battleship Dreadnought is launched
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The Story of the Kelly Gang is the first feature-length Australian film
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Rugby League breaks away from Rugby Union
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Model T Ford motor car first sold
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Alexander’s Ragtime Band first recorded
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The Titanic sinks killing more than 1500 people.
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Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra
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The first major world war lasts 4 years.
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Prototype of army tank developed
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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps land at Gallipoli
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Sonar developed to detect submarines
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Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly
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Australian troops fight the Battle of Bullecourt in France
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The Russian revolution establishes first Communist government
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First sub-machine gun invented by Tommy gun
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The Band-Aid invented by Earle Dickson
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Edith Cowan is elected to an Australian Parliament (WA)
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The television invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
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Benito Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
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First ‘talkie’ movie The Jazz Singer is released
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Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
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Fats Waller sings Ain’t Misbehavin’
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The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.
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Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto on the 18th February 1930.
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Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
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Release of movie King Kong
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DuPont Labs invents nylon
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Edward VIII abdicates the British throne
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Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier
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The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
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The Wizard of Oz movie is released
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The second world war lasts 6 years
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A surprise military strike by the Japanese against the US
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The Siege of Tobruk lasts 241 days in 1941
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Napalm developed by US scientists
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Australian troops fight the Japanese in PNG – Kokoda Campaign
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Richard James invents the slinky
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First successful test of a nuclear bomb – Manhattan Project
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The US drops a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
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The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer
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Ghandi Assasinated in New Dehli
