The match was a semi-final at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympic Games and became famous as a result of the violence that ran throughout the game.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
On the 13th May 1787, the eleven ships of the “First Fleet” set sail under Captain Arthur Phillip from Portsmouth, England, to establish a penal colony in Australia.
On the 19th April 1770, the British explorer Captain James Cook first caught sight of Australia.
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.
The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in Victoria.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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