27 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.

• 1953 – Actor and film director, Yahoo Serious (pictured) is born in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales.
• 1991 – German fraudster and head of the National Safety Council of Australia, John Friedrich suicides at his farm in Sale, Victoria.
• 1999 – The Swiss canyoning disaster takes place at Saxetenbach Gorge near Interlaken in Switzerland. Twenty-one tourists, fourteen of them Australian, are killed.
• 2005 – After 10 years in power Bob Carr resigns as Premier of New South Wales and is replaced by Morris Iemma on 3 August.

International Observances.

• Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (North Korea)
• Iglesia ni Cristo Day (the Philippines)
• José Celso Barbosa Day (Puerto Rico)
• Martyrs and Wounded Soldiers Day (Vietnam)

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