Death of Queen Elizabeth II

COVID-19 pandemic

Tham Luang Nang Non cave rescue

Death of Prince

Death of David Bowie

Donald Trump wins the U.S. Presidency.

The Republic of Ireland votes to legalize same-sex marriage, becoming the first country to legalize same-sex marriage by popular vote.

A major earthquake in Nepal, measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, results in nearly 9,000 deaths in Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh.

NASA's Dawn probe enters orbit around Ceres, becoming the first spacecraft to visit a dwarf planet.

Death of Robin Williams

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down in Ukraine.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared.

West African Ebola virus epidemic

Death of Nelson Mandela

Perth, Western Australia and surrounding areas switch off analog television broadcast.

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.

Died: Neil Alden Armstrong (5 August 1930 - 25 August 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.

Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, successfully lands on Mars.

Tokyo Skytree, the tallest self-supporting tower in the world at 634 metres high, is opened to public.

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.

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.

Died: Elizabeth Taylor, (27 February 1932 - 23 March 2011) was a British-American actress.

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.

Wikileaks, an online publisher of anonymous, covert, and classified material, leaks to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake/a> in Haiti kills 230,000. Flooding in Pakistan kills nearly 2,000 and leaves roughly a million homeless.

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.

Black Saturday bushfires swept across Victoria, resulting in 173 fatalities.

Execution; Saddam Hussein

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.

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.

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.

The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.

The September 11, 2001 attacks consisted of a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda on that date upon the United States of America.

27th Olympic Games held in Sydney.

World population reaches 6 billion.

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

The fall of the Berlin wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded.

Nelson Mandela Freed

Berlin Wall Falls

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