Rise and rise of a monster
Few realised it at the time but the 1930 German election put the world on course for another devastating conflict
Today In History
Gangs ruled streets with just their ‘shaving gear’
A crime wave in Sydney in the 1920s led to an outbreak of violence using cut throat razors
Race to conquer skies took decades to win
When Harry Houdini escaped the bonds of gravity at Diggers Rest in Victoria in 1910 he claimed to have been the first to fly an aeroplane in Australia, but in fact somebody had beaten him to it
Bush poet’s execution a sacrifice for peace
Lt Harry Morant and Lt Handcock went to their death as a peace gesture between the British and the Boers
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Kennedy cut down on path to White House
THE atmosphere of euphoria when Senator Robert Kennedy won the California primary for the Democratic presidential nomination soon turned to terror as shots rang out 50 years ago at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
LA’s zoot-suited Latino race riots
EIGHTEEN months after the US joined World War II, the nation’s soldiers and sailors were waging a separate war at home on the streets of Los Angeles, California.
China’s first Manchurian incident killed war lord
CONFLICT and chaos prevailed in Manchuria in 1928, as four million refugees arrived from drought-plagued Shandong.
Romance didn’t bloom for Loch Ard survivors
WHEN 18-year-old Eva Carmichael was shaken from her sleep aboard the Loch Ard she made her way to the deck only to be swept into the ocean and into a media frenzy.
Former NSW premier walked miles to find his place in Sydney
THE young boy walking from Parramatta to Sydney would have gone largely unnoticed by most traffic on Parramatta Rd in 1833, but James Martin would later become an influential politician and justice.
Bright colours masked Gauguin’s dark reality
WHEN French artist Paul Gauguin stepped ashore in Tahiti the islanders may have had trouble working him out, but he came with preconceived ideas of them
Lola Montez danced from legend into a musical
SHE was an Irish courtesan who became a Spanish dancer on the Australian goldfields, the perfect fodder for a great Australian musical.
Feminist Amelia’s bloomers reformed women’s fashion
GIVEN her passion for sobriety, Amelia Bloomer would be disappointed she is remembered for an unflattering women’s fashion.
Bojangles danced his way into film history
WHEN Bill “Bojangles” Robinson danced his way up and down the stairs hand-in-hand with Shirley Temple, he tapped his way into the hearts of millions.
How colonial Sydney switched on the lights
Sydney’s Vivid festival lights up the city at night like no other time of the year, but there was a time when Sydney was a much darker place
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