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• 1792 – The Home Secretary authorises Governor Phillip to make land grants to civil and military officers.
• 1874 – Crawford Vaughan, Premier of South Australia from 1915–1917, is born in Adelaide.
• 1995 – The Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag (pictured with Australian flag) are proclaimed as official Flags of Australia.
• 2001 – British backpacker, Peter Falconio disappears in the Australian outback. Bradley Murdoch is later found guilty of his murder.

International Observances.

• Bastille Day (France and dependencies)
• International Non-Binary People’s Day
• Republic Day (Iraq)
• Victoria Day (Sweden). The birthday of Crown Princess Victoria is an official flag flying day in Sweden.

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• 1791 – Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, best known for discovering the Darling Downs is born in Wimbledon, London.
• 1945 – Ben Chifley (pictured) becomes sixteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1961 – Australian rules footballer, Tim Watson is born.
• 1997 – A crowd of over 100,000 people watch the Royal Canberra Hospital implosion. Twelve-year-old Katie Bender is killed instantly when debris from the site travels across Lake Burley Griffin.

International Observances.

• Feast of Kalimát, first day of the seventh month of the Baháʼí calendar. (Baháʼí Faith)
• Statehood Day (Montenegro)
• The last day of Naadam (Mongolia)
• Kashmir Martyrs’ Day (Pakistan)

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• 1855 – David Angus, founder of Angus & Robertson, born in Thurso, Scotland.
• 1866 – Frederick Augustus Bolles Peters, the founder of Peters Icecream, “The Health Food of a Nation” born in Scio, Michigan.
• 1957 – Larry Anthony, federal minister in the Menzies Government, dies in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. His son, Doug Anthony, is elected in a subsequent by-election as Member for the Division of Richmond.

International Observances.

• Birthday of the Heir to the Crown of Tonga (Tonga)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kiribati from the United Kingdom in 1979.
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of São Tomé and Príncipe from Portugal in 1975.
• The second day of Naadam (Mongolia)
• The Twelfth, also known as Orangemen’s Day (Northern Ireland, Scotland…

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• 1916 – Gough Whitlam (pictured), later Prime Minister of Australia, was born.
• 1974 – Sir John Kerr sworn in as Governor-General of Australia.
• 1979 – American space station Skylab crashes in Western Australia
• 1987 – The Bob Hawke-led Australian Labor Party returned to power after a double dissolution federal election.
• 1990 – Sarah MacDiarmid, age 23, disappears and likely murdered at Kananook railway station, Melbourne. The crime remains unsolved.

International Observances.

• China National Maritime Day (China)
• Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)
• Day of the Flemish Community (Flemish Community of Belgium)
• Eleventh Night (Northern Ireland)
• Free Slurpee Day (Participating stores of the 7-Eleven chain in North America)
• National Day of Remembrance of the victims of the Genocide of the Citizens of the Polish…

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• 1812 – The report of a Select Committee on transportation, the first study of transportation generally supports Lachlan Macquarie’s liberal policies.
• 1864 – Austin Chapman, Minister for Defence in the first Deakin Government, is born in Bong Bong, New South Wales.
• 1908 – John Armstrong, Minister in the Chifley Government and Lord Mayor of Sydney, is born in Ultimo, New South Wales.
• 1911 – King George V grants the title of Royal Australian Navy to Australia’s naval forces.

International Observances.

• Armed Forces Day (Mauritania)
• Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.
• Nikola Tesla Day
• Statehood Day (Wyoming)

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• 1941 – Australian forces in Lebanon capture Damour, opening the way to Beirut and leading the Vichy French to seek an armistice.
• 1946 – Bon Scott (pictured), lead singer of AC/DC is born.

International Observances.

• Arbor Day (Cambodia)
• Constitution Day (Australia)
• Constitution Day (Palau)
• Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo)
• Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)
• Independence Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the United Provinces of South America by the Congress of Tucumán in 1816. (Argentina)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011.
• Nunavut Day (Nunavut)

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• 1882 – Percy Grainger (pictured), Australian pianist and composer, born in Melbourne.
• 1936 – The Federal Government announces an increase in military training strength, in response to the rise of fascism in Europe.
• 1963 – Margaret Court becomes the first Australian woman to win the Women’s Singles tennis championship at Wimbledon.
• 1991 – The first share offer for the newly privatised Commonwealth Bank.
• 2005 – Defecting Chinese diplomat Chen Yonglin is awarded a protection visa.

International Observances.

• Air Force and Air Defense Forces Day (Ukraine)

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• 1826 – Charles Todd responsible for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line born.
• 1851 – News of the discovery of gold at Clunes, Victoria is published in the Geelong Advertiser.
• 1907 – The Australian Navy Cadets is established.
• 1945 – The Australian 7th Division commences operations in the Battle of Balikpapan. Operations are completed by 21 July.
• 1960 – Eight-year-old Graeme Thorne is kidnapped and held for ransom after his parents win a lottery.
• 1975 – Footballer and Brownlow Medal winner, Michael Voss (pictured) is born.
• 1986 – Brian Chambers and Kevin Barlow become the first westerners executed in Malaysia under strict new Asian drug-trafficking laws.
• 1991 – The Australian Republican Movement was formed amidst a growing debate about Australian republicanism.
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• 1813 – The first commercial shipment of wool sent to Britain by John and Elizabeth Macarthur.
• 1892 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey at Gallipoli born.
• 1904 – Street lights in Sydney are electrically lit.
• 1925 – Actress Ruth Cracknell born in Maitland, New South Wales.
• 1940 – The Story Bridge (pictured) is opened in Brisbane
• 1942 – Elements of the Australian 9th Division arrive in El Alamein. The Division subsequently takes part in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein.
• 1945 – Frank Forde becomes the fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1951 – Actor Geoffrey Rush is born in Toowoomba, Queensland.
• 1964 – Kevin Conway was killed in action, the first Australian battle casualty in the Vietnam…

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• 1851 – James Esmond announces the discovery of gold at Clunes, Victoria leading to the start of the Victorian Gold Rush.
• 1854 – The Mercury was first published in Hobart.
• 1900 – The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (UK) passed. It received royal assent on the 9th.
• 1905 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
• 1945 – John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, died while in office.
• 1980 – Evonne Goolagong (pictured) defeats Chris Evert to win her second women’s singles title.
• 1985 – Justice Lionel Murphy of the High Court is convicted of perverting the course of justice.
• 2001 – Australia and newly independent East Timor sign the Timor Gap Treaty.
• 2004 – Australia and Thailand…

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• 1969 – Three thousand protesters against the Vietnam War rally outside the US Consulate in Melbourne.
• 1975 – Juanita Nielsen disappears, allegedly kidnapped and murdered.
• 1986 – After 10 years in power, Neville Wran resigns as Premier of New South Wales and is replaced by Barrie Unsworth.
• 1991 – Chinese-Australian heart surgeon Victor Chang (pictured) was murdered in Sydney.
• 2002 – American Steve Fossett completes his solo balloon navigation of the world landing in Durham Downs, Queensland.

International Observances.

• Birthday of Queen Sonja (Norway)
• The first evening of Dree Festival, celebrated until July 7 (Apatani people, Arunachal Pradesh, India)
• Independence Day (United States)
• Liberation Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
• Liberation Day (Rwanda)
• Republic Day (Philippines)

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• 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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• 1858 – Possible birth date of King O’Malley (pictured), one of the more colourful characters of the early federal period of Australian political history. He claimed to have been born in Canada which would have made him a British subject, if he was born in Vermont, as was likely, he would have been ineligible for a seat in Australian parliament.
• 1974 – Birth date of Matthew Reilly, Australian thriller writer.

International Observances.

• Flag Day (Curaçao)
• Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)
• Police Day (Azerbaijan)

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• 1841 – The convict assignment system was abolished in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land and was replaced by the probation gang system.
• 1851 – Victoria becomes a separate colony.
• 1932 – The Australian Broadcasting Commission is inaugurated by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.
• 1949 – John Farnham (pictured), Australian singer is born.
• 1970 – Melbourne Airport is opened at Tullamarine, Victoria.
• 1975 – Medibank is introduced, Australia Post and Telecom are formed from the Postmaster-General’s Department.
• 1978 – The Northern Territory becomes self-governing.
• 1983 – High Court blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania in the Tasmanian Dams Case.
• 1986 – Fringe Benefits Tax is introduced.
• 1996 – The Northern Territory legalises voluntary euthanasia. It would be repealed by a…

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• 1825 – German Australian Sir Ferdinand von Mueller (pictured) was born, some claim that he was Australia’s greatest scientist of the 19th century.
• 1922 – The Industrial Court of Appeal rejected the concept of equal pay for women.
• 1934 – The Commonwealth rejects Western Australia’s case for secession.
• 1941 – HMAS Waterhen sinks off Libya, the first Australian naval vessel lost in World War II.
• 1972 – The Ord River Irrigation Scheme in Western Australia is officially opened by Prime Minister William McMahon.
• 1999 – Tim Fischer retires as federal leader of the National Party; he is replaced by John Anderson the next day.

International Observances.

• Armed Forces Day (Guatemala)
• Asteroid Day (International observance)
• General Prayer Day (Central African Republic)
• Independence Day…

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• 1888 – Birth date of Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
• 1939 – Birth date of cricketer Alan Connolly.
• 1942 – General Thomas Blamey (pictured) reorganises the army for the defence of Australia.

International Observances.

• Engineer’s Day (Ecuador)
• Independence Day (Seychelles), celebrates the independence of Seychelles from the United Kingdom in 1976.
• Veterans’ Day (Netherlands)
• National Statistics Day (India)

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• 1880 – Ned Kelly (pictured) is captured at Glenrowan, Victoria; Dan Kelly, Steve Hart and Joe Byrne are killed.
• 1894 – A Colonial Conference held in Ottawa, Canada, resolved to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia.
• 1919 – Prime minister Billy Hughes signs the Treaty of Versailles on Australia’s behalf. Australia gained mandate over German New Guinea.
• 1981 – Painter Russell Drysdale dies.

International Observances.

• Constitution Day (Ukraine)
• Poznań Remembrance Day (Poland)
• Vidovdan, celebrating St. Vitus and an important day in Serbian history. (Eastern Orthodox Church)

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• 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.

International Observances.

• Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Canada)
• Commemoration Day for the…

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• 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…