August 29, 2005 — Hurricane Katrina destroys much of New Orleans
At 6:10AM on the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made a landfall on the Louisiana coast near Buras-Triumph....
May 29, 2013
Politics & War
November 29, 2007 — Julie Bishop becomes the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party
In the wake of the crushing defeat of the Liberal Party in the 2007 Australian federal election, the incumbent leader...
May 9, 2013
August 29, 2008 — Sarah Palin announced as Republican Vice-Presidential candidate
Sarah Palin was almost unknown outside of her home state of Alaska prior to August 2008. She’d been Governor there...
May 24, 2012
September 15, 2008 — Malcolm Turnbull displaces Brendan Nelson as Liberal Party leader
Brendan Nelson failed terribly as the Leader of the Opposition, and even moreso as the Leader of the Liberal Party....
May 14, 2012
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
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
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
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
January 20, 2017 — Donald Trump becomes the US President
Inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, real estate mogul, celebrity and reality tv star Donald Trump was...
March 9, 2012
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