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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1975 | - 1975: First colour television broadcast.
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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1980 | - 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
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| 7 | 1981 | - 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
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| 8 | 1983 | - 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
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| 9 | 1989 | |
| 10 | 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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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 1999 | - 1999: World population reaches 6 billion.
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1972 - 1999 (27 years)