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rockylizard


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Gday...

1719  -   Daniel Defoe's novel "Robinson Crusoe" is first published. 

1859  -   Work commences on the construction of the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean and Red seas.

1874  -   Marconi, inventor of the wireless telegraph, is born. 

1896  -   South Australian women become the first in Australia to vote in an election. 

1915  -   ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli during World War I.

Cheers - John



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Big day today, everybody remembers the ANZAC boys, as we should, may they rest in peace.

But I am also proud that some women were given the vote so early in this country, English women didn't get the same right as men to vote till 1928

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Cheers,  Gerty. ... at home

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