Somerton Man found
1948 · Event
A well-dressed dead man with no identification is found on Somerton beach in Adelaide; a scrap reading 'Tamám Shud' from the Rubáiyát is later found in his pocket.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master
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- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Arrival of the First Fleet (1788)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
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)