September 2006 – 10 years ago
We loss Steve Irwin, Colin Thiele and heroine Elizabeth Choy in September 2006. There were disasters and shootings, but there was Sandi Thom’s Punk Rocker.
Read moreWe loss Steve Irwin, Colin Thiele and heroine Elizabeth Choy in September 2006. There were disasters and shootings, but there was Sandi Thom’s Punk Rocker.
Read moreSeptember 1996 saw Desert Strike, Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech, spies, assassinations, legal euthanasia, the Gracetown disaster and more.
Read moreThe Wadi al-Salam cemetery, in Iraq’s city of Najaf, is expanding at double its usual rate as the nation’s death rate increased with the war on IS.
Read moreFrom the battle of Long Tan to Singapore’s First National Day Parade to mass killers, Whitman and McDuff, to the Revolver album – that was August 1966.
Read moreJuly 2006 – The Second Lebanon War; Plane crases in Russia and Pakistan; the Mubai Train Bombings, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and more.
Read moreAustralia will honour the service and sacrifice of our WWI soldiers next week at the centenary commemorations for the battles of Fromelles and Pozières.
Read moreJuly 1991 – Beginning of the Yugoslav Wars; the monster Jeffrey Dahmer; Flight 2120 air disaster; Normie Rowe vs Ron Casey on the Midday Show… and more.
Read moreJuly 1966 – The WOrld Cup and Billie Jean King’s Wimbledon; The Crime of the Century, Batman, Ultraman and more.
Read moreIn 1944 at 15 Elie Wiesel, his family and the entire Jewish population in Sighet, were sent to Auschwitz. He survived to be a Nobel Laureate.
Read moreCold Harbor visitors report seeing the full-body apparitions of soldiers wandering the grounds or re-enacting their doomed final moments.
Read more“We’ve finished the war, now let’s build peace.” In Colombia church bells pealed at noon to mark the start of the signing between FARC and the government.
Read moreThe Afghan Taliban’s leadership council met on Sunday to start considering succession after a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan targeted its commander
Read moreMay 1991: Crash of Lauda Air Flight 004, Winnie Mandela, Backdraft, Dallas and more
Read moreMay 1966: Australia’s fist NS death in Vietnam, Moors murderers, Perry Mason, Percy Sledge, Beach Boys and more.
Read moreTwo Anzac posters depicting the different experiences of Australians on the Western Front in 1916 have been released in the lead-up to Anzac Day.
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