The Cairns Post

Timetrip

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1603: Queen Elizabeth I dies after ruling

England for more than 40 years 1927: Australia’s federal parliament sits in Melbourne for the last time before moving to Canberra. 1958: Elvis Presley (above) is inducted

into the US army for two years. 1989: America’s worst oil spill occurs as supertanke­r Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. 2012: Campbell Newman pulls off the most staggering victory in Queensland’s political history, with the LNP winning 78 seats in the 89-seat parliament. 2015: A Germanwing­s Airbus flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf crashes in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

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