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100 Years ago... Ottoman Sultan is out, Empire Kaput November 4, 1922 Six thousand years of Ottoman rule in Turkey have come to an end...
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Neale Lucas
- Nov 12
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Treasures of Tutankhamun unearthed November 29, 1922 Three days ago, in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, two British...
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Neale Lucas
- Nov 3
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Proust becomes a past remembrance November 18, 1922 Marcel Proust, the French novelist who spent most of his adult life...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 16
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... "Squizzy" Taylor winged during gangland affray Oct 2, 1922 The elusive Leslie "Squizzy" Taylor, linked to Melbourne's...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 10
- 2 min
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100 Years ago.... Philanthropic cocoa king, Cadbury, dies Oct 25, 1922 George Cadbury, who made a fortune from chocolate and then used...
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Neale Lucas
- Oct 4
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Fascists march on Rome Oct 30, 1922 Benito Mussolini, the Duce of the Fascists, is today the dictator of Italy, a...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 19
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... British warn Turks Sept 29, 1922 The government has sent instructions to the British Commander in the Dardanelles,...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 13
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Goondiwindi becomes the eclipse centre Sept 21, 1922 The tiny southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi took centre stage...
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Neale Lucas
- Sep 6
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Last words of Henry Lawson, the ill-starred bard of the bush Sept 11, 1922 There have been many sincere words of regret...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 16
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Pioneer of popular newspapers dies Aug 15, 1922 Lord Northcliffe, who died yesterday at the age of 57, was the pioneer...
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Neale Lucas
- Aug 5
- 1 min
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100 Years ago..., Irish leader Collins killed in ambush August 22, 1922. Michael Collins, the Irish warrior politician who became a...
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Neale Lucas
- Jun 16
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Climbers reach 26,000 feet up Everest June 12. 1922 A British Everest expedition has climbed to within 3.200 feet of...
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Neale Lucas
- Jun 4
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... IRA shoot British Army Chief in London June 22, 1922 Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, the former chief of the Imperial...
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Neale Lucas
- May 21
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... The problem of how to make Russia pay May 19, 1922 The Allies, meeting in Genoa, took time off from wrangling over...
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Neale Lucas
- May 7
- 1 min
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100 Years ago... South are victorious in Chinese civil war May 5, 1922 The rebel Chinese army of Manchuria, commanded by General Chang...
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Neale Lucas
- Apr 23
- 1 min
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100 Years ago... Ross is hanged for Gun Alley murder April 24, 1922 Collin Campbell Ross was hanged at Melbourne jail today, protesting...
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Neale Lucas
- Apr 2
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Death of airman Sir Ross Smith April 13, 1922 Famous Australian aviator Sir Ross Smith and his crew member Lieutenant J...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 14
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... March 11, 1922 Martial law to quell gold-mine rioting Martial law was proclaimed in Johannesburg and the Rand...
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Neale Lucas
- Mar 4
- 1 min
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100 Years ago.... Gandhi sentenced to jail Mar 18, 1922 Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian nationalist leader, pleaded guilty to three charges of...
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Neale Lucas
- Feb 11
- 1 min
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100 years ago.... Reader's Digest is born under a bar Feb 5, 1922 DeWitt Wallace, the son of a US Presbyterian minister, today put out...
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