Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man (TRIH ep 257)
1948 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History examines the Somerton Man, an enigmatic death discovered on Somerton Park Beach near Adelaide on 1 December 1948. Tom Holland outlines the baffling physical and forensic clues: a well-dressed unidentified man with labels surgically removed from his clothing, an unused rail ticket, American items, and signs suggesting poison.
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Around 1948
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)