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  A federation is the joining of states to become one nation.
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  queen victoria died on 21st january 1901 at the age of 81, she had been the queen of britian for 63years.
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  World War I (1914–1918) was the first war in history to be fought by many different nations around the world. Around eight million men were killed, many in horrific ways.
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  The fighting ended with the signing of an cease fire which went into effect at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918.
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  The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (October 1929), also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929
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  Germany invaded Poland (September 1st 1939).
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  the time of the arrival of the first members of war in 1962 almost 60,000 Australians, including ground troops and air force and navy personnel, served in Vietnam; 521 died as a result of the war and over 3,000 were wounded.
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  The League of Nations failed to prevent World War II (1939–1945).
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  The United States of America, the first nation to introduce decimal currency, took ten years to finally work out its dollars and cents system, established in 1792
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  harold holt was a Prime Minister his carrer was bought to an end December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at cheviot beach
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  apollo 11 was the first space craft with humans that landed on the moon, the people who went on this journey included neil armstrong, and edwin "buzz" aldrin
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  In 1974 Cyclone Tracy destroyed the City of Darwin in north Australia in a few hours.
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  1.Students protest for democracy in Beijing, China, in June of 1989.
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  nelson mandela served as a president from 1994 til 1999
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  Just after noon on 28th April 1996, an unknown marksman opened fire on diners in the Broad Arrow Cafe at Port Arthur in Australia
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  princess diana died in a tragic car accident in 1995 in paris underpass
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  President Truman officially declared an end to hostilities by Presidential Proclamation on December 31
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  strikes on twin towers was a shocking and horrific event that happened on the date of september 11th 2001, it is now still a day people morne today
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  well before the Wright brothers' famous trials at Kitty Hawk. In 1804 an English baronet, Sir George Cayley, launched modern aeronautical engineering by studying the behavior of solid surfaces in a fluid stream and flying the first successful winged aircraft of which we have any detailed record.