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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 1980 | - 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
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| 3 | 1981 | - 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
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| 4 | 1983 | - 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
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| 5 | 1989 | |
| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1999 | - 1999: World population reaches 6 billion.
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| 9 | 2000 | |
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 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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| 13 | 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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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 2006 | |
| 16 | 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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| 17 | 2010 | |
| 18 | 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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| 19 | 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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| 20 | 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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1979 - 2013 (34 years)