26 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.

• 1797 – HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney from the Cape of Good Hope, carrying stores ordered by Governor Hunter and merino sheep imported by John Macarthur.
• 1916 – William Jackson awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in a raid near Armentières, France.
• 1918 – SS Wimmera struck a mine off Gabo Island laid by the German raider Wolf and sank.
• 1949 – A seven week coal strike involving 23,000 miners began.
• 1950 – Twenty-eight die in Australia’s worst aviation disaster when an ANA Skymaster crahes near York, Western Australia.
• 1988 – The Australian Recording Industry Association compiles the first ARIA Charts.
• 1998 – The Marree Man geoglyph (pictured) appears in the desert near Marree, South Australia.
• 2006 – The world’s first…