27 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.

• 1863 – James McCulloch, the fifth Premier of Victoria, takes office.
• 1911 – The Royal Military College, Duntroon (pictured) opened.
• 1949 – A coal strike involving 23,000 miners began. It lasted for seven weeks until Australian military forces were used to break the strike; the first time such a thing had happened in peace-time Australia.
• 1987 – Former federal Liberal Party leader Billy Snedden is found dead from a heart attack in a motel room.
• 2001 – The Intelligence Services Act 2001 introduced into Parliament, providing a legislative basis for the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD), both of which had been previously established by executive order.

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