Henry Stephen YORK

Male 1921 - 1988  (67 years)

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Died (Marjorie KING)
Died (Henry Stephen YORK)
Marjorie KING (1924 - 2007)
Henry Stephen YORK (1921 - 1988)
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Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
IBM launches the first PC
Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
Skylab crashes to earth around esperance area.
WAY 79, was the official sesquicentennial (150th anniversary) celebration of the colonisation of Western Australia by Europeans.
Death of Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
First colour television broadcast.
Bloody Sunday - Derry, Northern Ireland, in which 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army.
Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
Moon Landing - On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.
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.
Decimal currency is introduced.
Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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
Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His 'I Have a Dream' Speech
The Cuban missile crisis.
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.
Perth gets the name 'City of Light' as John Glenn passed over the city in his Mercury spacecraft.
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.
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.
Berlin Wall Built
Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
Eurovision Song Contest starts
Vietnam War
Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
First Computer Built
World War II
'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
The Great Depression.
Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
Vegemite is first produced.
Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
World War I
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.
Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.
Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General.
The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time.
Queen Victoria's death.
The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent.
First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
Olympic Games revived in Athens.
Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name "the Commonwealth of Australia" and drafting a constitution.
The cardboard box is invented.
Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
Celluloid photographic film introduced
Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London.
Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named Coca-Cola
First Australian rules football match played.
Carl Benz builds the \'Motorwagen\', a single-cylinder motor car
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world\'s first motorcycle
John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
Edison invents microphone and phonograph
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
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   Date  Event(s)
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
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.
1948 
  • 1948: Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
1955 
  • 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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  • 1956: Eurovision Song Contest starts
11 1959 
  • 16 Oct 1959: Television officially screened to Western Australian Homes.
12 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
  • 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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  • 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
  • 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
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  • 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.
21 1975 
  • 1975: First colour television broadcast.
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  • 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley (8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
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  • 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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  • 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
25 1981 
  • 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
26 1983 
  • 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.