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| 1948 |
| | | Prime minister Ben Chifley sees Australia's first mass-produced car, the Holden, roll off the production line | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, designed by de Havilland, goes into service with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) | |
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| 1950 |
| | | The Canadian schooner St Roch becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal and the Northwest Passage, thus circumnavigating North America | |
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| 1959 |
| | | The Mini is launched, designed by Alec Issigonis, and becomes the best-selling British car of all time | |
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| 1962 |
| | | The Trans-Canada Highway is completed, stretching some 5000 miles across the continent | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Anglo-French airliner Concorde makes its first supersonic test flight | |
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| 1999 |
| | | A fire in the Mont Blanc road tunnel kills 39 people and closes the tunnel for three years | |
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| 2000 |
| | | A Concorde supersonic airliner crashes after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board | |
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| 2003 |
| | | The last three Concorde airliners to carry fare-paying passengers land within a space of five minutes at Heathrow | |
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| 2005 |
| | | The superjumbo Airbus A380 makes its first test flight from Toulouse | |
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