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US stock market reaches it highest point which triggers the Great Depression.
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Phar lap became a ray of sunshine during the lean years of the Great Depression and remains the shortest-priced favourite in Cup history.
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Australia came under attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin.
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On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan.
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.
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Korean War, conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea
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Francis Crick and James Watson are the two people who together several other scientist discovered DNA.
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Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, has become the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
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The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam
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In March 1957 John Lennon formed a "skiffle group" that he called "The Quarrymen."
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Jack Brahham was the first ever Australian to win the F1 and went on to win the world title three times.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the war was averted.
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Dr Christian Bernard operates the first ever heart transplant successfully.
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American clergyman and civil rights leader Martin Luther King was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room.
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Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
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More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin to knock down the wall. The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The South African anti-apartheid activist, and politician, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years.
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The Second ever olympics held in the Southern Hemisphere was a very successful and memerable Olympics.
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The group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania
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Julia Gillard became Australia’s 27th Prime Minister and the first woman to hold the office. She was elected unopposed by the Parliamentary Labor Party.Before becoming Prime Minister, she served as the Deputy Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010 in Kevin Rudd’s Labor government, where she was Minister for Employment and Workplace
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