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Signficant Events of the 20th Century
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Federation of Australia
Was were 6th of the states formed one nation -
Queen Victoria Dies
Queen Victoria Cause of death is Cerebral hemorrhage -
First Airplane Flies
The Wright brothers wee two americans credited with inventing the first plane. -
World War 1
Involved all the world' great powers, that were asembed in two oppoing alliances. -
World War 1 ends
Was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history. -
World War 2
Was a globel conflict that lasted 6 years. -
World War 2 ends
Involved most of the world's nations. -
Vietnam War
Was a Cold War-era miliary conflict that happened in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. -
Olympic Games in Melbourne
(Unknown date)
The 1965 summer games were held in Melbourne -
Decimal Currency
With pounds, shillings and pence to be replaced by decimal currency in 1966, many names for the new currency were suggested. -
Aboriginals become citizens
Votes
For :90.77%
Against: 9.23% -
Harold Holt Drowns
Spent 32 years in Parliament -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
It was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon. -
Australia Goes Metric
Metrication in Australia took place between 1970 and 1988. Before then, Australia mostly used the imperial system for measurement, which the Australian colonies had inherited from the United Kingdom
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Cyclone Tracy
Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia -
Tianamen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese[1] were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China (PRC) beginning on 15 April 1989 -
Berlin Wall Colapses
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic -
Nelson Mandela
While in jail, his reputation grew and he became widely known as the most significant black leader in South Africa -
United Nations form
This replace league of nations. -
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Desert Scorpion was an American response to the crises between the United Nations and Iraq -
Port Arthur Massacre
Was a killing spree in which 35 people were killed and 21 wounded -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other, during the Cold War -
Princess Diana dies
Princess Diana was killed in a car crash -
Twin Towers
The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours.
