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| 1 | 1955 | - 1 Nov 1955—30 Apr 1975: Vietnam War
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| 2 | 1964 | - 1964: Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison
- 1964: Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last person hanged in Western Australia.
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| 3 | 1966 | - 1966: Star Trek T.V. Series Airs
- 14 Feb 1966: Decimal currency is introduced.
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| 4 | 1967 | - 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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| 5 | 1969 | - 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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| 6 | 1970 | - 1970: Computer Floppy Disks Introduced
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| 7 | 1972 | - 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.
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| 8 | 1975 | - 1975: First colour television broadcast.
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| 9 | 1977 | - 16 Aug 1977: Death of Elvis Aaron Presley
(8 January 1935 - 16 August 1977), "The King of Rock 'n' Roll".
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| 10 | 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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| 11 | 1980 | - 8 Dec 1980: Death of John Ono Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980)
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| 12 | 1981 | - 12 Aug 1981: IBM launches the first PC
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| 13 | 1983 | - 1983: Western Australia - Australia II wins the Americas Cup.
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| 14 | 1989 | |
| 15 | 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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| 16 | 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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| 17 | 1999 | - 1999: World population reaches 6 billion.
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| 18 | 2000 | |
| 19 | 2001 | |
| 20 | 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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| 21 | 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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| 22 | 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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| 23 | 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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| 24 | 2006 | |
| 25 | 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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| 26 | 2010 | |
| 27 | 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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1964 - 2011 (47 years)