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

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

Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.

Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.

Alfred Nobel patented dynamite

Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth

Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention

First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard

American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.

Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'

Neanderthal man first identified.

Victorian gold rush.

Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.

The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe

The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry

The Irish Potato Famine or the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration, approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland.