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16th July 2015, 11:37 PM
#1
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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26th July 2015, 12:15 AM
#2
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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27th July 2015, 11:58 PM
#3
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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28th August 2015, 10:26 PM
#4
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
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