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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1927 | - 1927—1948: Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
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| 2 | 1939 | - 1 Sep 1939—15 Aug 1945: World War II
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| 3 | 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.
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| 4 | 1948 | - 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
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| 5 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 6 | 1956 | - 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
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| 7 | 1959 | - 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 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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1943 - 1962 (19 years)