9 May in Australian History

Here are just some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of.

• 1900 – The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
• 1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne (painting by Tom Roberts).
• 1927 – The federal government moved to Canberra from Melbourne with the opening of the Provisional Parliament House.
• 1980 – Swimmer Grant Hackett is born.
• 1985 – Melbourne criminal Christopher Dale Flannery disappears without trace, presumed murdered.
• 1988 – New Parliament House is opened on Capital Hill by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1991 – Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is released.

International Observances.

• Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances:
  – Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands…