2010 $1 Centenary of Powered Flight Harry Houdini 18th March 1910 PNC PNCs - $1 it marked a significant change

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The coin’s design features a powerful steam-driven train emerging from the Australian landscape and honours the important role our railways have played in building our nation

The Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games mark the fourth occasion Australia has provided the venue for the games following on from Sydney (1938)

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2010 $1 Centenary of Powered Flight Harry Houdini 18th March 1910 PNC PNCs - $1 it marked a significant changeOn 18 March 1910, at Diggers Rest, Victoria, renowned American escapologist Harry Houdini made the first of several well publicised flights in Australia. His aircraft was an imported Voisin with his name emblazoned on the tail. Houdinis longest flight that day, over a distance of about three kilometres, earned him a trophy from the Aerial League of Australia. However, according to the criteria set by the Royal Aero Club of Great Britain, Houdini did