Sydney Airport, officially Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, is the main international and domestic airport of Sydney and lies in the suburb of Mascot, about eight kilometres south of the city centre. Aircraft began using the site in 1919 and 1920, which makes it one of the oldest continuously operating airports in the world, and it was developed through the 1920s and 1930s as air travel grew. It is named after the Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith. The airport has grown steadily, with runways extending into Botany Bay, and it is the busiest in Australia. It was privatised in 2002, and a second airport for the city is being built at Badgerys Creek.
Before and after
- from November 1932 to December 1932Emu War
- 4 November 1932Construction of Stadio Olimpico
- 20 November 1932Construction of Estádio Couto Pereira
- 1933Discovery of Harbin cranium
- 1933Construction of Sydney Airport
- 1933Origins of Ligue 2
- from 1933 to 1945The Holocaust
- 1933Construction of Lacoste
- 1933Enabling Act of 1933
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