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Arts & Entertainment Years Ago 

September 2006 – 10 years ago

28 September , 201621 September , 2016 Anastasia Rebecca De Sousa, animals, Anna Quindlen, Batt Reef, Blue Fin, Brad Meltzer, Brian Herbert, Changi Prison, Choy Khun Heng, Colin Thiele, coup d'état, Crocodile Hunter, Dawson College, Dawson College shooting, digital television, digital TV, Dune, Elizabeth Choy, Embraer Legacy 600, fatality666, fish, Frank Herbert, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, Goth, Gunner Choy, Hunters of Dune, I Don’t Feel Like Dancing, I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker, Into the Storm, James Patterson, John Tucker Must Die, Judge and Jury, Justine Timberlake, Kevin J Anderson, Kimveer Gill, Lady Mountbatten, Lathen, Luxembourgh, maglev train, marshal law, Ocean's Deadliest, Port Douglas, Ricochet, Rise and Shine, Royal Thai Army, Sandi Thom, Sandra Brown, Scissor Sisters, SexyBack, Silent Hill, Singapore Volunteer Corps, Steve Irwin, stingray, Storm Boy, Suzanne Brockman, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Thaksin Shinawatra, The Book of Fate, Transrapid magnetic levitation train, war, Will Farrell, World War II

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.

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Arts & Entertainment Years Ago 

September 1996 – 20 years ago

8 September , 2016 Afghanistan, Anne Rice, Bing Crosby, Bjorke, Bob Dent, Bob Hope, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bulletproof, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, CTBT, Dalai Lama, Deep Blue Something, Desert Storm, disasters, DJ Goldie, Dorothy Lamour, Dr Philip Nitsche, Euthanasia, Executive Orders, First Wives’ Club, Flava, Gracetown, Hurricane Fran, Huzzas Cliff, Iraqui War, Jack and Jill, James Patterson, John Grisham, John Howard, Kabul, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Los Del Rio’s, Macarena, Margaret River, Maximum Risk, Murtaza Bhutto, Operation Desert Strike, Peter Andre, Peter Costello, Ricardo Lopez, Runaway Jury, Saddam Hussein, Servant of Bones, Spice Girls, Taliban, terrorists, The Crow: City of Angels, Tom Clancy, Tupac Shakur, Wannabe, war

September 1996 saw Desert Strike, Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech, spies, assassinations, legal euthanasia, the Gracetown disaster and more.

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Wadi al-Salam, the world’s largest cemetery growing

25 August , 2016 Ali Bin Abi Talib, Islamic State, Najaf, Najaf cemetery, Peace Valley cemetery, Shi'ite cemetery, terrorists, Wadi al-Salam, Wadi al-Salam cemetery, war

The 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.

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Arts & Entertainment Crime Sports Years Ago 

August 1966 – 50 years ago

9 August , 201612 August , 2016 1st Australian Task Force, Adventurers, Alva Worley, America’s Most Wanted, August 1966, Ba Ria, Battle of Long Tan, Bayern Munich, Beatles, Braniff Flight 250, Brenda Thompson, British Empire and the Commonwealth Games, Bundesliga, Candlestick Park, Changping District, Charles Whitman, Colleen Reed, Commonwealth Games, Cultural Revolution, Cynthia Gonzalez, Daxing District, Daxinzhuang Commune, disaster, Donald Pleasence, earthquake, Edna Sullivan, Eleanor Rigby, Falls City, Fantastic Voyage, Good Day Sunshine, Got To Get You Into My Life, Harold Robbins, Here There and Everywhere, Jacqueline Suzanne, Jamaica, James Clavell, Kathleen Leissner, Kenneth McDuff, Kingston, Lenny Bruce, Long Tan, Love You To, Mark Dunman, Melissa Northrup, Mentos commercial, National Day Parade, Nebraska, North Vietnam, Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province, Raquel Welch, Red Guards, Regina DeAnne, Revolver album, Robert Brand, Roy Green, Salvation Army, Sarafia Parker, Sepp Maier, serial killers, serial murders, Singapore, South Vietnam, Tai-pan, Taxman, University of Texas, University of Texas shooting, Valley of the Dolls, Varto, Varto earthquake, Viet Cong, Vietnam, Vietnam war, war, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, William Booth Memorial Home, World Trade Centre, Yellow Submarine

From 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.

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Arts & Entertainment Years Ago 

July 2006 – 10 years ago

27 July , 201615 July , 2016 2006 Lebanon War, air crash, Dan Halutz, disaster, earthquake, Ehud Goldwasser, Ehud Olmert, Eldad Regev, Flight 688, Fokker F27, Fouad Siniora, Hezbollah, Hips Don’t Lie, Indian Mujahideen, Indonesia, Inter-Services Intelligence, Irkutsk, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Janet Evanovich, Java, Lebanon, Lily Allen, Miami Vice, Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune, Moscow Domodedovo, Mumbai, Mumbai Train Bombings, Mutan, Nelly Furtado, One for the Money, Pakistan International Airlines, Pangandaran, PIA, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Promiscuous, Rafic Hariri International Airport, S7 Flight 778, Second Lebanon War, Shakira, Shi'a Islamist, Smile, Superman Returns, terrorism, Top of the Pops, Tricky-Twenty-Two, tsunami, Turbo Twenty-Three, Twelve Sharp, war, Wheel of Fortune, Wyclef Jean

July 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.

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Top Stories 

Fromelles and Pozières centenary commemorations

21 July , 201621 July , 2016 Anzac, Australian 5th Division, Battle of Fromelles, Battle of Pozières, cobbers, diggers, First World War, Fromelles, Pheasant Wood, Pozières, war, Western Front, World War I, WWI

Australia will honour the service and sacrifice of our WWI soldiers next week at the centenary commemorations for the battles of Fromelles and Pozières.

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Arts & Entertainment Crime Sports Years Ago 

July 1991 – 25 years ago

20 July , 201612 July , 2016 10 Day War, apartheid, Boris Yeltsin, Cevantes, Chew Seng Liew, Choon Tee Lim, Christopher Scarver, Douglas DC-8, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jesse Anderson, Kirki, Kirki oil spill, Michael Stitch, Mike Tyson, Nationair, Nigeria Airways, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120, Nolisair, Normie Rowe, Ron Casey, Russia, slovenia, Slovenian Independence War, Steffi Graff, Steven Mark Hicks, Steven Tuomi, tennis, Tracy Edwards, USSR, Victor Chang, war, Yugoslav People’s Army, Yugoslav wars, Yugoslavia

July 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.

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Crime Sports Years Ago 

July 1966 – 50 years ago

13 July , 20166 July , 2016 Air-to-air missiles, Ba'ath Party, Bobby Fuller, Bruce McLaren, Cora Amurao, Dennis L Breo, FIFA, Football, Geoff Hurst, Gloria Davy, Harold Holt, Jack Brabham, July 1966, Mao Zedong, Margaret Court, mass murder, McDonalds, Mississippi, murder, Northern Ireland, President Lyndon B Johnson, Prince Phillip, prohibition, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Speck, Saddam Hussein, Soccer, tennis, Vietnam war, war, William J Martin, Wimbledon, World Cup

July 1966 – The WOrld Cup and Billie Jean King’s Wimbledon; The Crime of the Century, Batman, Ultraman and more.

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Top Stories 

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87

6 July , 2016 Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elie Wiesel, Francois Hollande, Holocaust, Nobel Peace Prize, Romania, Sighet, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, war

In 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.

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How Bizarre Regulars 

Ghosts of the Battle of Cold Harbor

28 June , 201610 June , 2016 American Civil War, Battle of Cold Harbor, Cold Harbor, Cold Harbor Battlefield, Cold Harbor National Cemetery, Garthright House, Miles Garthright, Richmond, Virginia, war, Winthrop Phelps

Cold Harbor visitors report seeing the full-body apparitions of soldiers wandering the grounds or re-enacting their doomed final moments.

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FARC rebels sign ceasefire deal in Colombia

24 June , 2016 Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, Colombian civil war, FARC, Havana, Juan Manuel Santos, Latin America, plebiscite, Rodrigo Londono, Timochenko, war

“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.

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Afghan Taliban meets on succession

24 May , 201624 May , 2016 Afghan, Afghanistan, drone strike, Mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, Mullah Mohammad Omar, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, Mullah Sherin, Nawaz Sharif, Rahbari Shura, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban, Taliban leadership, terrorism, Wali Muhammad, war

The Afghan Taliban’s leadership council met on Sunday to start considering succession after a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan targeted its commander

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Arts & Entertainment Crime Years Ago 

May 1991 – 25 Years Ago

18 May , 20169 May , 2016 air crash, America, Amy Grant, Baby Baby, Backdraft, Bill Murray, books, Cher, civil war, comedy, crimes, Dallas, Daryl Braithwaite, disaster, Donald Sutherland and Robert De Niro, Dudley Reid, emigration, Ethiopia, Frank Oz, George H W Bush, Israel, J R Ewing, James Seipei, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jerry Musivuzi Richardson, Joy Ride, kidnapping, Kurt Russell, Lauda Air, Loves Music Loves to Dance, Mandela United Football Club, marriage, Mary Higgins Clark, Minnie Munro, movies, MUFC, murder, music, Nelson Mandela, Niki Lauda, Operation Solomon, Point Clare, Rebecca De Mornay, Richard Dreyfus, Ron Howard, Roxette, Russia, Scott Glenn, Shoop Shoop Song, Soviet Union, Thailand, The Horses, travel, TV, USA, war, What About Bob, William Baldwin, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie Mandela

May 1991: Crash of Lauda Air Flight 004, Winnie Mandela, Backdraft, Dallas and more

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Arts & Entertainment Years Ago 

May 1966 – 50 years ago

11 May , 20168 May , 2016 5th Batallion, Alan Arkin, Babbara Hale, Beach Boys, California Dreamin’, Caroline No, Catholics, crime, crimes, Dellas Street, Doctor Zhivago, Earle Stanley Gardner, Errol Wayne Noack, God Only Knows, Guiana, Guyana, Ian Bradley, independence, IRA, Irish Republican Army, Jacqueline Susann, Mamas and the Papas, Manfred Mann, Moors murderers, Moors murders, Myra Hindley, Nui Dat, Paint It Black, Percy Sledge, Perry Mason, Pet Sounds, Pretty Flamingo, protestants, Raymond Burr, Rolling Stones, Sandra Harrison, Sloop John B, terrorists, The Russians Are Coming, Ulster Volunteer Force, UVF, Valley of the Dolls, Vietnam, war, When a Man Love a Woman, Wouldn’t It Be Nice

May 1966: Australia’s fist NS death in Vietnam, Moors murderers, Perry Mason, Percy Sledge, Beach Boys and more.

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Other News 

Anzac Posters Depict Life on the Western Front

30 March , 20163 April , 2016 Anzac, Anzac posters, Fromelles, history, Veteran's Affairs, Vignacourt, war, Western Front

Two 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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