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The reasons that led the British to invade Australia were simple. The prisons in Britain had become unbearably overcrowded a situation worsened by the refusal of America to take any more convicts after the American War of Independence in 1783.
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Ned Kelly byname of Edward Kelly born June 1855 Beveridge Victoria Australia died November 11 1880 Melbourne most famous of the bushrangers Australian rural outlaws of the 19th century In 1877 Kelly shot and injured a policeman who was trying to arrest his brother Dan Kelly for horse theft.
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Australia becomes a nation on 1 January 1901 when the six colonies federate and the Commonwealth of Australia is proclaimed in Centennial Park Sydney.
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the titanic only took 2 hours and 40 min to sink. only 706 people servived the titanic sinking
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The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play alliances imperialism militarism nationalism was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary In June 1914 a Serbian nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke.
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World War II began in Europe on September 1 1939 when Germany invaded Poland Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on September 3 The war between the U.S.S.R. and Germany began on June 22 1941 with Operation Barbarossa the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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The first steps by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20 1969.
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there was19 hijackers and it took 9 months to clean it up
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Jacob Barwick was unfortunately born in this year.