Australia and New Zealand have argued for decades over who invented the pavlova.
The meringue dessert was named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova during or after her tours of both countries in the 1920s.
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- 1925 The first 'face' on television belonged to a ventriloquist's dummy.
- 1925 · 1970 For half a century, shoe shops fitted shoes under X-rays.
- 1927 · 1952 The last wild European bison was killed in the Caucasus in 1927.
- 1927 The first feature-length talkie was mostly silent.
- 1927 · 1961 · 2000 The keeper of the pitch drop experiment waited 52 years to see a drop fall, and never did. John Mainstone once missed one by stepping out for tea, and in 2000 the camera failed in a thunderstorm.
- 1928 1928: Fleming came back from holiday to find a mould killing his bacteria, sliced bread went on sale for the first time, and Mickey Mouse made his public debut in Steamboat Willie.