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Becomes Victoria's youngest King's Counsel. Wins the Victorian
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Scullin Government, October 22: Stanley Bruce becomes the only
prime minister to lose his seat at an election. Victorian Supreme
Court judge Owen Dixon KC is appointed to the High Court. First train
from Adelaide to Alice Springs. The Great Economic
Depression begins - it brings years of hardship for average Australians. Charles Kingsford
Smith and his crew of the Southern Cross set a record for flying
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Wall Street stock market crash. World economic depression
begins. First in-flight
movie is shown on a flight from St Paul to Chicago. Theory that
our universe started with a gigantic explosion thousands of millions of
years ago, and has been expanding ever since, were borne out by observations
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