History 10.6 By Nikita Leigh Jan 1, 1901 Federation of Australia Jan 22, 1901 Queen Victoria Dies after 63-Year Reign Dec 17, 1903 First Airplane Flies Jan 1, 1912 United Nations forms, replacing League of Nation Jul 28, 1914 World War I Breaks out Nov 11, 1918 World War I ends Oct 29, 1929 Wall Street crash triggers Great Depression Sep 30, 1938 World War II Breaks out Sep 2, 1945 World War II ends Nov 1, 1955 Vietnam War Nov 22, 1956 Melbourne hosted the Olympic games Oct 29, 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis brings world to brink of Nuclear war Jan 26, 1966 Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt drowns Feb 14, 1966 Australia goes Metric Aug 10, 1967 Referendum gives citizenship status to Aboriginal Australians Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the mooon Dec 24, 1974 Cyclone Tracy Flattens Darwin Apr 15, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Nov 9, 1989 Berlin Wall collapses Feb 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison in South Africa Dec 2, 1990 Us launches Operation Desert Storm in Iraq Apr 28, 1996 Port Arthur Massacre Aug 31, 1997 Princess Diana dies in car Crash Nov 9, 2001 Strikes on Twin Towers in New York Feb 6, 2012 Australia adopts Decimal currency
