The Transformers Collection Count & Historical Events Game

[GoktimusPrime]

1926:
* Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova tours Australia. Australians create the Pavlova cake in her honour.
* The League of Nations abolishes slavery
* Germany signs a treaty with the Soviet Union. This can only end well.

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1927:
* Australia looked like this!
* China's People's Liberation Army is formed.
* Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, giving Joseph Stalin undisputed control of the USSR. This can only end well.

[GoktimusPrime]

1929:
* Wall Street crashes and the Great Depression begins.
* Fremantle WA becomes a city.
* Alexander Fleming publishes his accidental discovery of penicillin.

[GoktimusPrime]

1935:
* Qantas makes its first international flight, from Darwin to Singapore.
* Under Adolf Hitler, Germany begins violating the 1919 Treaty of Versailles by rebuilding its military strength.
* Persia is renamed 'Iran.'

[GoktimusPrime]

1940:

• Moments in cartoon history...
  * Tom & Jerry debuts (though nameless until the following year) in "Puss Gets the Boot"
  * Disney releases Pinocchio and Fantasia
  * Elmer Fudd debuts ("Elmer's Candid Camera")
  * Bugs Bunny debuts ("A Wild Hare")
  * In Japan, only one anime film is released; キンタロー体育日記 ("Kintaro's P.E. Diary")

• Brisbane's Story Bridge opens

• The British begin bombing Germany in May. In September, the Germans return in kind; both countries are now blitzing the crap out of each other

• Moments in comic book history...
  * Captain America Comics #1 (cover date March 1941) hits newstands
  * Robin debuts as Batman's sidekick
  * The Spectre debuts
  * DC's Captain Marvel debuts
  * The first superhero team up occurs, known as the Justice Society of America
  * Many manga artists were placed under strict control of the Japanese Imperial government. Those who weren't outright banned from working were recruited to draw manga that promoted government/military propaganda, such as a giant robot trashing New York

• Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, born Lhamo Dondrub, is declared to be the fourteenth regeneration of the Dalai Lama

[Jaxius._]

2000 (well 1999 and a headmaster head)

I was born
the Olympics were in Sydney
Car robots was aired in japan
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon align

[GoktimusPrime]

So you're just 15 years old and you have a collection of 2000 Transformers?!? It's taken me 31 years to amass my current collection of 1940! Wow!

[GoktimusPrime]

Okay, recently acquired a few more toys, but also decided to remove some toys that I'm currently selling from my count. So now I'm on: 1941 (UCM)!

1941:
* The Holocaust begins.
* Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.
* You think Australian politics is crazy now? Australia had three Prime Ministers within one year! Robert Menzies, Arthur Fadden and John Curtin!

[GoktimusPrime]

1942:
* Japan invades the Dutch East Indies, and are actually welcomed by the local Indonesians who have grown tired of living under Dutch colonial rule (the enemy of my enemy...). Many Indonesians actually welcomed the Japanese with open arms. The Dutch aren't so keen and execute a Scorched Earth strategy, deliberately destroying much of the East Indies' infrastructure before leaving.
* A Jewish girl turns 13 and begins documenting her life. Her family flee to the Netherlands and hide in an attic. Her name was Anne Frank.
* In Papua New Guinea, Australian and Japanese forces battle each other in the Kokoda Track Campaign. Many local Papua New Guineans assisted Australian forces and came to be known as the 'Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels,' including carrying wounded Australian soldiers under heavy enemy fire. In spite of this, the Australian government has not officially recognised the Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels' contribution and many Aussie lives saved (e.g. better foreign aid to improve local health, education in villages around the Kokoda track etc.). On a darker note, Australian forces also bullied local PNGs into only assisting them, and any locals accused of assisting the Japanese were brutally punished, even publicly executed in front of children.

[GoktimusPrime]

1943:
* One of the worst battles in human history finally concludes.
* Jacques Cousteau and Émile Gagnan invent the Aqua Lung, the precursor to the Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA), which itself is a precursor to rebreather technology used in spacesuits.
* After forming minority government in 1941, John Curtin begins to serve another term as Prime Minister after the Labor Party defeated the Coalition in the greatest landslide victory in Australian history. This guy's totally a keeper.