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The Jazz Age
Around 1895 in New Orleans. Originally it was a mixture of Blues and marching band music and was played by African-Americans and Creoles on old U.S Army instruments like the cornet or marching drums. The twenties were the time for experiments and discovering new jazz-styles. In that period, black people and new-Orleans-musicians moved from the country site south to Chicago. They helped create the white Chicago-Style. Lots of Chicago musicians finally moved to New York, which was an important ce -
End of WWI
World War I started in 1914 and finally ended on the 11th of November 1918. Germany formally surrendered and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated between the two countries. On June 28, 1919, Germany and the Allied Nations; Britain, France, Italy and Russia signed the Treaty of Versailles which officially ended World War I. -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was supposed to ensure a lasting peace by punishing Germany and setting up a League of Nations to solve diplomatic problems. Instead it left a legacy of political and geographical difficulties which have often been blamed, sometime solely, for starting the Second world war. -
Invention Of Television
John Logie Baird was a Scottish engineer, who is best known as the inventor of the first working television. John Baird transmitted the first televised pictures of moving objects in 1924, the first televised human face in 1925, and the first real-time moving object in 1926. -
Day of Mourning
On January 26, 1983 it was the 150th anniversary since the landing of the first fleet in Australia. There was a celebration parade and a re-enactment of the arrival of the First Fleet. On Wednesday, 26th January, 1938, a meeting titled as ‘Australian Aborigines Conference: Sesqui-centenary: Day of Mourning and Protest’ was held at The Australian Hall in Sydney to discuss the 150th anniversary. The first person to give a speech was Jack Patten where he stated that ‘On this day the white people ar -
Start of WWI
At 4:45 on the morning of September 1, 1939, German troops who were led by Hitler entered Poland. The German air attack hit so quickly that most of Poland's air force was destroyed while still on the ground. Poland was not defenceless, but they could not compete with Germany's motorized army. -
Japanese attack of peral harbour
On the morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. More than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships* had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed after just 2 hours of bombing. -
Bombing Of Darwin
On the 19th of February 1942 at 9:58am, the Japanese bombed Darwin. The first attack was at the RAAF base which lasted for approximately 40 minutes. The second attack was later that day at around midday which was also at the RAAF base. Between 250 & 320 people were killed while 300 – 400 people were injured. In the Darwin harbour, 20 ships were sunk and another 25 were damaged due to the bombing. -
Declaration of Human Rights
Once World War II ended the UN leaders vowed that they would never allow atrocities like those of that conflict happen to ever again. On 10 December 1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created after the result of the experience of the Second World War. World Leaders agreed to the UN’s decision and signed the declaration of human rights. -
Martin Luther King Jr. "i have a dream..." speech
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave a public speech in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. He gave the speech to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March of Washington. The speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century. -
Australian Freedom Rides
On February 12 1965 Charles Perkins and 29 other students from Sydney University called "Students for Aboriginal Rights” set off in a bus they hired to raise awareness about Aboriginal rights and issues. They travelled 3200 km over 16 days. On the 13th they visited Orange, Wellington & Dubbo. On the 14th they visited Gulargambone then set off to Walgett where they stayed for 2 days. The group than moved onto Collarenebri on the 16th. They settled at Moore for 2 days before travelling to Boggabi -
Invention Of Mobile Phone.
Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, was the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. -
Release of Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile" Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee and Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton as Mick Dundee’s future wife. It was released in Australia on 30 April 1986. -
United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child
In November 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The United States of America and Somalia are the only 2 countries in the world that have not signed the CRC. Australia has a duty to ensure that all children in Australia enjoy the rights set out in the treaty. The CRC contains the full range of human rights – civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
For 28 years, the 28 mile Berlin Wall had split a city in two and divided a nation with two million tons of concrete, 700,000 tonnes of steel, attack dogs, tank traps, death strips and tripwires. On the 9th of November 1989 the berlin wall was taken down when Hitler. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
On Monday the 6th of August 1995 at 2:45 am, the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb in Japan filled with 20,000 tons of TNT flattened the city killing more than 10,000’s of people. The Japanese were stilling processing what had just happened when 3 days later the United States struck again ending world war II. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba that occurred in the early 1960s during the Cold War. The crisis ranks as one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is often regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to a nuclear war. -
Market crash
Almost 85 years ago, the New York Stock Exchange experienced the worst financial problem the country had ever seen ‘the market crash of 1929’ also know was Black Tuesday. Some banks were putting customer’s money into the stock market without them knowing. On the 24th of October 1929, stock prices plummeted. There were so many orders to sell that the ticker fell behind really quickly. By the end of close the ticker was ssss2 and a half hours behind. -
Melbourne Olympics
In 1956, the summer Olympics were held in Melbourne. 72 nations competed, 3314 athletes competed but only 376 of these women. Over the whole Olympics Australia came 3rd. Australians shone in swimming where they won all of the freestyle races, and collected a total of eight gold, four silver and two bronze medals.
