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Eula Marie ANDRUS

Female 1903 - 1964  (60 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1904 
  • 9 Nov 1904: In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.
1905 
  • 1905: Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
1909 
  • 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
1912 
  • 15 Apr 1912: On the night of April 14, at 11:40 p.m., The Titanic struck an iceberg; just under three hours later, at 2:20 AM, on April 15, 1912 the ship sank.
1914 
  • 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
1915 
  • 25 Apr 1915: Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
1923 
  • 1923: Vegemite is first produced.
1924 
  • 4 Jun 1924: Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
1927 
  • 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
10 1928 
  • 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
  • 1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
11 1929 
  • 1929: 'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
12 1939 
  • 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
13 1945 
  • 1945: First Computer Built
  • 30 Apr 1945: Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
  • 6 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  • 9 Aug 1945: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
14 1948 
  • 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
15 1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
16 1956 
  • 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
17 1959 
  • 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
18 1961 
  • 1961: Berlin Wall Built
  • 12 Apr 1961: The first manned spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union as a part of the Vostok programme of space exploration, with a cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
  • 5 May 1961: The United States became the second nation to achieve manned spaceflight, with the suborbital flight of astronaut Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7, carried out as part of Project Mercury.
19 1962 
  • 1962: Perth gets the name 'City of Light' as John Glenn passed over the city in his Mercury spacecraft.
  • 5 Aug 1962: Marilyn Monroe was found naked, dead in the bedroom of her Brentwood, California home by her live-in housekeeper Eunice Murray on August 5, 1962. She was 36 years old at the time of her death.
  • Oct 1962: The Cuban missile crisis.
20 1963 
  • 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
  • 22 Nov 1963: The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST
21 1964 
  • 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
  • 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.