July 25, 2009 — Harry Patch, the last veteran of the Trenches of World War One, dies
At the time of Harry Patch’s death, he was aged 111 years and 38 days. The last surviving World War...
May 4, 2012
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August 30, 2009 — “The Human Centipede” premieres
A body horror film from the Netherlands, “The Human Centipede” is a minor cultural phenomenon, spawning two (increasingly gross) sequels....
April 29, 2012
December 1, 2009 — Tony Abbott elected leader of the Liberal Party
Tony Abbott wasn’t supposed to be in the running. While it was obvious that Malcolm Turnbull wasn’t going to last...
April 4, 2012
October 6, 2010 — Instagram is launched
Instagram almost wasn’t Instagram. When development started, it was originally going to be a location check-in app named burbn. Realising...
April 2, 2012
June 6, 2013 — The Guardian and The Washington Post report on PRISM surveillance
Edward Snowden became a household name when he leaked a series of explosive documents detailing the NSA’s PRISM program, which...
March 29, 2012
July 1, 2013 — The last Danish forces withdraw from Afghanistan
Danish forces first arrived in Afghanistan in 2001 as part of the NATO deployment, and were originally attached to the...
March 28, 2012
October 5, 2014 — Robert Kennedy Jr. dumps the corpse of a brown bear in Central Park
While Robert Kennedy Jr. has done some weird things in his time, this is probably the weirdest. This entry is...
March 26, 2012
September 14, 2015 — Tony Abbott loses the Prime Ministership to Malcolm Turnbull
The stated reason for the knifing of Tony Abbott was that he had lost “30 Newspolls in a row” –...
March 24, 2012
October 16, 2015 — Adrian Bott posts the “Leopards Ate My Face” Tweet
The greatest ever tweet was posted on October 15, 2015. All subsequent twitter dialogue is simply unnecessary. As mentioned in:...
March 22, 2012
December 11, 2015 — George Pell “too unwell” to appear before Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Cardinal George Pell’s legal team communicated to the Royal Commission on this date that he was too unwell to travel...
March 19, 2012
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