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Begins attending school at Humffray Street State School in Ballarat."My parents had a passionate faith in the procuring of an education for their children ... So, by stages, we went off to school in Ballarat, where I won the scholarship necessary to take me to secondary school, and then to open the door to the University." "… as a schoolboy he [Robert Menzies] came to this metropolis [Ballarat] from the small, dusty township that had always been home. He spoke of simple but unforgettable things experienced for the first time in his life: the smell of asphalt; the shouts of newsboys on the long platform of the railway station; the traffic in the streets and the electric lights." |
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World's first lifesaving club is formed at Bondi, NSW. World's first
feature film The story of the Kelly Gang is made in Australia by
the Tait brothers. A telegraph
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San Francisco earthquake and fire: 400 dead. British rule
over Papua is transferred to Australia. In 1884 the Australian colonies
had been hostile to the establishment of German New Guinea (north-eastern
New Guinea) and pressured Britain to acquire Papua (south-eastern New
Guinea) soon after. Roald Amundsen
traverses the North West Passage and determines the position of the Magnetic
North Pole. World's first
feature film The story of the Kelly Gang is made in Australia by
the Tait brothers.Finland
is the first country in Europe to grant women the right to vote and is
the first country in the world to grant women the right to be electoral
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