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Completion of transcontinental railway linking Brisbane to Perth
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Federation-Australia becomes a new nation
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Centenary of Federation
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Australians first serve in the Boer War
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End of the Boer War
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First aeroplane flight, by the Wright brothers in USA
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First Australian-born Governor-General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed
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Titanic sinks
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Australia enters World War 1
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Landing of Australian and other troops at Gallipoli
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Influenza epidemic after World War l kills more people than the war
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End of World War 1-an estimated 12 million dead
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QANTAS starts flying planes in Australia
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Start of the Great Depression
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First colour TV broadcast in Australia
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Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
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Opening of the Sydney Harbour bridge
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Last Tasmanian Tiger dies in captivity
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Australia enters World War ll
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Australian scientist Howard Florey discovers how to mass-produce penicillin, thus saving millions of lives around the world
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Darwin is bombed for the first time during World War ll
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Japanese submerines raid in Sydney Harbour
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and 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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First Australian involvement in United Nations peacekeeping, in Indonesia
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Australians first serve in the Korean War
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The Victa motor mower is invented
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Korean War ends
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'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley and the Comets starts the rock 'n roll era
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TV starts in Australia
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Melbourne host the Olympic Games
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First Satellite in space, ' Sputnik'
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First dog in space, 'Laika'
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First human in space, Yuri Gagarin
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First Australian soldiers sent to South Vietnam
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First human heart transplant-in South Africa
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First human on the moon, Neil Armstrong
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Decimal currency replaces pounds, shillings and pence
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Australian troops withdrawn from Vietnam
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Australian troops withdrawn from Vietnam
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Cyclone Tracy wrecks Darwin
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Elvis Presley dies
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Azaria Chamberlain taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock (Uluru)
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The film 'Gallipoli' is released
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Ash Wednesday bushfires kill 72 people in Victoria and South Australia
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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 woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, WA
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The Beatles tour Australia
The Beatles arrived in Australia on the 12/6/94 and departed
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Rabbit calicivirus disease accidentally released
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Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania
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Death of Princess Diana
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Death of the last remaining 25 April Anzac, Ted Matthews
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Australian troops go to East Timor as peacekeepers
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World population reaches six billion
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Sydney hosts the Olympic Games