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Australians first serve in the Boer War
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Federation -- Australia becomes an independent nation
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First aeroplane flight by Wright brothers in U.S.A.
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The 'Titanic' sinks
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Austranlians enter WW1
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Australian and other troops land at Gallipoli
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Influenza epidemic after WW1 that killed more people than the war starts
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WW1 ends.
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The start of the Great Depression
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Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed
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The Opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
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QANTAS starts flying planes in Australia
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Last tasmanian tiger dies in captivity
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Australia enters WW2
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darwin is bombed for the first time in WW2
On 19 February 1942 mainland Australia came under attack for the first time when Japanese forces mounted two air raids on Darwin. The image source was awm.gov.au -
Japanese submarines raid in Sydney Harbour
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Australian scientist Howard Florey discovers how to mass-produce penicillin
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The end of WW2 - an estimated 55,000,000 dead
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Atomic bomb dropped on 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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Autralian first serve in the Korean War
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Victa motor lawn mower invented
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Korean War ends
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'Rock Around the Clock ' is released, and consequently, starts the rock and roll era
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First tv broadcast in australia
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Melbourne Olympic Games
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Sputnik -- first satellite in space
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Laika the space dog went into space
Laika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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First man in space Yuri Gagarin
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First Australian soldiers sent to South Vietnam
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Beatles start touring Australia
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Currency is changed from pounds shillings and pence to decimal
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The fist human heart transplant, in South Africa
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First human on the moon -- Neil Armstrong
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Australian troops withdrawn from Vietnam
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first colour tv broadcast in Australia
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Cyclone Tracy
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Azaria Chamberlain taken by dingo at Ayers Rock
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'Galipoli', the film is released
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South-West Tasmania is placed on the World Heritage list
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Newcastle earthquake
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First Australian woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, WA in ofice
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Brisbane to Perth transcontinental railway is linked
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Rabbit calicivirus disease accidentally released
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Death of Princess Diana
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First Australian involvement in the United Nations peacekeeping in Indonesia
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Australian troops go to east timor as peacekeepers
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world population reaches 6,000,000,000
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Sydney Olympic Games
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Centennary of federation
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Death of Ted Matthews
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Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
