The Transformers Collection Count & Historical Events Game

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1923:
* The Great Kanto earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing approx. 143,000 people.
* Prince Albert (aka King George VI) marries Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (aka The Queen Mother)
* Half of the Victorian police force goes on strike. Melbourne suffers widespread rioting and looting.

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1925:
* Brisbane City Council is formed
* The Shūeisha Publishing Company is founded in Tokyo
* The Chrysler Corporation is founded

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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.

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

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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.'

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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