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February: as Federal Attorney-General Menzies sails to England with his
wife Pat, PM Lyons and the Australian Ministerial party to represent Australia
at King George V's Jubilee celebrations. They return in September. July 4: Menzies,
responding to UK Prime Minister Baldwin, makes his first speech in England.
It is to the Empire Parliamentary Association luncheon in Westminster
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February: First scheduled international flight of Qantas Empire Airways,
to Singapore. A British House
of Commons Joint Select Committee rejects Western Australia's submission
to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia on the grounds that WA has
no legal right to request legislation on the Australian Constitution. March: The
pearling fleet off Broome, WA, is struck by days of cyclonic winds. More
than 140 people are missing, believed drowned. May: Aviator
Charles Kingsford Smith and his two crewmen of the Southern Cross
land safely in Sydney after all three engines develop trouble out 440
miles over the Tasman Sea. Only a few feet above the sea, co-pilot Captain
P G Taylor six times climbed out along the wing strut to feed oil into
the port motor. July: Australian
Associated Press (AAP) is established. November 9:
Charles Kingsford Smith and his co-pilot J T Pethybridge are
reported missing when the Lady Southern Cross fails to arrive at
Singapore when trying to break the England to Australia record. The search
is abandoned on November 20 when Prime Minister Lyons announces that further
searching would be considered fruitless. December: The
giant cane toad is introduced into Queensland to control the grey-back
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Chinese "Long March" ends: Mao Tse-Tung, facing defeat by the
Nationalist forces of General Chiang Kai-shek, led his followers on the
"Long March" to safety in the mountains of Yenan, northern China,
from where they emerged to defeat the Nationalists and, in 1949, to turn
China Communist. Radar invented
by Watson & Watt. May 6: the Works
Progress Administration (WPA) is created to help provide economic relief
to those suffering through the Great Depression in the USA. Composer George
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