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Theodore Barkley HARRISON

Male 1912 - 1961  (49 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
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.
1928 
  • 1928—1933: The Great Depression.
  • 1928: Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
1929 
  • 1929: 'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
1939 
  • 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
10 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.
11 1948 
  • 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
12 1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
13 1956 
  • 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
14 1959 
  • 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
15 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.