On this day in 1942, submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy shelled Sydney, Australia.
On this day in 1949, George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.
On this day in 1984, New Zealand declared itself a “nuclear-free zone”.
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- 08 June, 2015
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