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| 1 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 2 | 1956 | - 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
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| 3 | 1959 | - 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
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| 4 | 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.
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| 5 | 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.
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| 6 | 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
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| 7 | 1964 | - 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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| 8 | 1966 | - 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
- 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
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| 9 | 1967 | - 27 May 1967: Australian referendum relating to Indigenous Australians. The results of the referendum recognised Aboriginal people on the census and made "Aboriginal Affairs' the responsiblity of the Commonwealth.
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| 10 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969: Moon Landing - On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.
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| 11 | 1970 | - 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
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| 12 | 1972 | - 30 Jan 1972: Bloody Sunday - Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
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| 13 | 1975 | - 1975: First colour television broadcast.
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| 14 | 1977 | - 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley
(8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
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| 15 | 1979 | - 1979: WAY 79, was the official sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) celebration of the colonisation of Western Australia by Europeans.
- 12 Jul 1979: Skylab crashes to earth around esperance area.
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| 16 | 1980 | - 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
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| 17 | 1981 | - 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
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| 18 | 1983 | - 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
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| 19 | 1989 | |
| 20 | 1990 | - 1990: Nelson Mandela Freed
- 3 Oct 1990: The fall of the Berlin wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded.
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| 21 | 1997 | - 31 Aug 1997: On 31 August 1997, Diana died after a high speed car accident in the Pont d'Alma road tunnel in Paris along with Dodi Al-Fayed and the acting security manager of the Hotel Ritz Paris, Henri Paul, who was instructed to drive the hired Mercedes-Benz through Paris secretly eluding the paparazzi
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| 22 | 1999 | - 1999: World population reaches 6 billion.
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| 25 | 2002 | - 12 Oct 2002: The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.
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| 26 | 2003 | - 15 Oct 2003: The People's Republic of China became the third nation to achieve human spaceflight when Yang Liwei launched into space on a Chinese-made vehicle, the Shenzhou 5.
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| 27 | 2004 | - 26 Dec 2004: The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami was an undersea earthquake that occurred at 00:58:53 UTC December 26, 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake triggered a series of devastating tsunamis along the coasts of most landmasses bordering the Indian Ocean, killing more than 225,000 people in eleven countries, and inundating coastal communities with waves up to 30 meters (100 feet). It was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand were hardest hit.
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| 28 | 2005 | - 1 Oct 2005: The 2005 Bali bombings were a series of terrorist suicide bomb attacks that occurred on 1 October 2005, in Bali, Indonesia. Bombs exploded at two sites in Jimbaran and Kuta, both in south Bali. Twenty six people were killed, and 129 people were injured by three bombers who killed themselves in the attacks.
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| 30 | 2009 | - 7 Feb 2009—14 Mar 2009: Black Saturday bushfires swept across Victoria, resulting in 173 fatalities.
- 25 Jun 2009: Died: Michael Jackson died after suffering a cardiac arrest, officials confirmed, sending shockwaves around the entertainment world as stunned stars and fans mourned the loss of the tortured music icon known as the King of Pop.
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| 32 | 2011 | - 11 Mar 2011: A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing 15,840 and leaving another 3,926 missing. Tsunami warnings are issued in 50 countries and territories. Emergencies are declared at four nuclear power plants affected by the quake.
- 23 Mar 2011: Died: Elizabeth Taylor, (27 February 1932 - 23 March 2011) was a British-American actress.
- 2 May 2011: U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, has been killed during an American military operation in Pakistan.
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| 33 | 2012 | - 6 Feb 2012: The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.
- 22 Mar 2012: Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to public.
- 6 Aug 2012: Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.
- 25 Aug 2012: Died: Neil Alden Armstrong (5 August 1930 - 25 August 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.
- 14 Oct 2012: Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance during a record space dive out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon from 24 miles (39 kilometers) over Roswell, New Mexico in the United States.
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| 34 | 2013 | - 16 Apr 2013: Perth, Western Australia and surrounding areas switch off analog television broadcast.
- 5 Dec 2013: Death of Nelson Mandela
The world said goodbye to the former president of South Africa and the country’s first black head of state.
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| 35 | 2014 | - Mar 2014: West African Ebola virus epidemic
- 8 Mar 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared.
- 17 Jul 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down in Ukraine.
- 11 Aug 2014: Death of Robin Williams
One of Hollywood’s most beloved comedians ended his life at his California home on 11 August 2014. The unexpected death made waves across the globe, prompting awareness of mental health. Tragically, the actor was found to be suffering from a debilitating brain disease called diffuse Lewy body dementia.
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| 36 | 2015 | - 6 Mar 2015: NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.
- 25 Apr 2015: A major earthquake in Nepal, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, results in nearly 9,000 deaths in Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh.
- 23 May 2015: The Republic of Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.
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| 37 | 2016 | - 2016: Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidency.
November 8, Americans elected him the 45th president of the United States.
- 10 Jan 2016: Death of David Bowie
David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
- 21 Apr 2016: Death of Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and actor. The recipient of numerous awards and nominations, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation.
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1950 - 2016 (65 years)