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February: Sails to England to appear in two Privy Council cases and for
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March: Telegraph links Tasmania and mainland Australia. B A Santamaria
put out the first issue of the Catholic Worker, monthly journal of Catholic
Action, a movement concerned by what it perceived as a rising tide of
Communism. The Macquarie Book of Events 1983 p 347., September:
The last known Tasmanian tiger dies in captivity at the Hobart zoo. October:
New Zealander Jean Batten arrives in Darwin after a record-breaking solo
flight from London in 10 days 21 hours. December: Reginald
Ansett wins the Brisbane to Adelaide centenary air race. In February
he had formed Ansett Airways Pty Ltd with a one-aircraft air service
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January: Death of King George V and succession of Edward VIII. Abdication crisis
in Britain: King Edward VIII renounces the throne to marry the twice divorced
American, Mrs Wallis Simpson. His role as head of the Church of England
prohibits marriage to a divorcee. Cabinet rules that a morganatic marriage
(where a wife and children do not share the rank of the husband) would
be unconstitutional. The King told the nation "... I have found it
impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge
my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of
the woman I love." December: King
George VI succeeds his brother Edward VIII to the British throne. Civil War erupts
in Spain when the Army rises against the Republican Government. Germany
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