3 July 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 – Following Aboriginal attacks on farms in the Hawkesbury region, Hunter dispatches a party of soldiers from the New South Wales Corps to protect settlers.
• 1947 – Sugar rationing ends following World War II.
• 1989 – The Fitzgerald Inquiry into possible illegal activities and associated police micsonduct in Queensland ends.
• 1994 – Death of Lew Hoad (pictured), Australian tennis player.

International Observances.

• Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
• Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944 (Belarus)
• The start of the Dog Days according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures
• Women’s Day (Myanmar)

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