8 June in Australian History

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

• 1805 – John Macarthur returns to New South Wales as a civilian settler; the British Government accepts his resignation from the New South Wales Corps and approves his return.
• 1856 – Bounty Day is celebrated each year in Norfolk Island, in memory of the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders.
• 1919 – Sir Henry Briggs, President of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 13 years, dies.
• 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith (pictured) completes the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia in the Southern Cross.
• 1942 – Japanese submarines shell Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1951 – The School of the Air officially opens.
• 1983 – The first triplets resulting from in-vitro fertilization were born at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide.
• 1983…