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• 1813 – Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson, and William Wentworth arrive at Mount Blaxland, and having successfully crossed the Blue Mountains for the first time, head back to Sydney.
• 1886 – The SS Ly-Ee-Moon sinks off Green Cape, New South Wales, with the loss of 71 persons.
• 1942 – During the Attack on Sydney Harbour, a Japanese midget submarine sinks the converted ferry HMAS Kuttabul (pictured), killing 21.

International Observances.

• Anniversary of Royal Brunei Malay Regiment (Brunei)
• The beginning of Gawai Dayak (Dayaks in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia)
• World No Tobacco Day (International)

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• 1911 – The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory is established.
• 1923 – Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom sign an agreement to share the administration of former German colony Nauru.
• 1925 – Millicent Preston-Stanley becomes the first woman member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• 1928 – Pro Hart born in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
• 1988 – Expo ’88 (pictured) begins in Brisbane, 18 million visits are made in the six months it is open.
• 1989 – Ananda Marga member Tim Anderson is arrested on charges related to the 1978 Hilton bombing.
• 1991 – A television report reveals that Bob Hawke made a secret agreement to hand over the ALP leadership to Paul Keating in 1988.

International Observances.

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• 1788 – Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutter’s Bay.
• 1904 – Cyclist and politician Hubert Opperman (pictured) is born in the town of Rochester, Victoria.
• 1956 – Frank Beaurepaire, swimming world record holder, businessman, and former Lord Mayor of Melbourne, dies aged 65.
• 1975 – The Family Court of Australia is established.
• 2003 – A hijack attempt on Qantas Flight 1737 between Melbourne and Launceston is thwarted by a flight attendant and passengers.

International Observances.

• Army Day (Argentina)
• Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh (Baháʼí Faith) (Only if Baháʼí Naw-Rúz falls on March 21 of the Gregorian calendar)
• International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (International)
• National Elderly Day (Indonesia)
• Oak Apple Day (England), and its related observance:
  – Castleton Garland Day (Castleton)
• Statehood…

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• 1851 – The arrival of two convict ships, the Lady Kenneway with 249 male prisoners and Blackfriars with 260 female prisoners, further turns Tasmanian sentiment against transportation.
• 1968 – Singer and actress, Kylie Minogue (pictured) is born.

International Observances.

• Armed Forces Day (Croatia)
• Downfall of the Derg (Ethiopia)
• Flag Day (Philippines)
• Menstrual Hygiene Day
• Republic Day (Nepal)
• TDFR Republic Day, celebrates the declaration of independence of the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic in 1918. (Azerbaijan and Armenia)
• Youm-e-Takbir (Pakistan)

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• 1801 – The French cartographic expedition of Nicolas Baudin sighted Cape Leeuwin.
• 1967 – Australia holds a referendum approving two amendments to the Australian Constitution relating to Indigenous Australians.
• 2005 – Schapelle Corby (pictured) convicted of drug smuggling by an Indonesian court and sentenced to 20 years in gaol, later reduced to 15 and then reverted to 20 years.

International Observances.

• Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)
• Children’s Day (Nigeria)
• Mother’s Day (Bolivia)
• Navy Day (Japan)
• Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)
• Start of National Reconciliation Week (Australia)

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• 1944 – The acting prime minister, Frank Forde announced Australia’s intention of embarking on an active postwar immigration policy.
• 1971 – Qantas subject to an extortion hoax.
• 1998 – The first National Sorry Day protest held (pictured).
• 2005 – National Sorry Day renamed National Day of Healing

International Observances.

• Independence Day, commemorates the day of the First Republic in 1918 (Georgia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guyana from the United Kingdom in 1966.
• Mother’s Day (Poland)
• National Paper Airplane Day (United States)
• National Sorry Day (Australia)

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• 1870 – Bushranger Captain Thunderbolt is shot and killed near Uralla by Constable Alexander Walker during a highway robbery.
• 1930 – Amy Johnson arrives in Darwin, completing the first solo flight by a woman from England to Australia.
• 1991 – The state election in New South Wales produces a hung parliament. Nick Greiner manages to form a minority government with the support of four Independent MPs.
• 2005 – Entertainer and Gold Logie winner, Graham Kennedy (pictured) dies.

International Observances.

• Africa Day (African Union)
• African Liberation Day (African Union, Rastafari)
• First National Government / National Day (Argentina)
• Geek Pride Day (geek culture)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Jordan from the United Kingdom in 1946.
• Last bell (Russia, post-Soviet countries)
• Liberation Day (Lebanon)

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• 1805 – William Bligh is appointed the fourth Governor of New South Wales, he arrives at Port Jackson to replace King on August 6, 1806.
• 1870 – Port Adelaide Football Club play their first match.
• 1905 – Empire Day is first celebrated in Australia.
• 1917 – Australian boxer Les Darcy (pictured) dies in the United States.
• 1960 – The Parliament of Victoria authorised Totalizator Agency Boards with the intention to stamp out starting price (SP) betting.
• 1969 – Keith Payne is the last Australian soldier awarded a Victoria Cross for bravery during the Vietnam War.
• 2006 – Author Geraldine Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

International Observances.

• Aldersgate Day/Wesley Day (Methodism)
• Battle of Pichincha Day (Ecuador)
• Bermuda Day (Bermuda), celebrated on…

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• 1889 – Louisa Lawson founded the Dawn Club, which became the hub of the women’s suffrage movement in Sydney.
• 1892 – Frederick Deeming hanged at Melbourne Gaol having been unsuccessfully defended by the lawyer Alfred Deakin. Deeming was accused of committing a series of crimes on three continents—theft, perjury, fraud, bigamy and murder; he used at least 20 aliases.
• 1912 – Walter Burley Griffin’s design for Canberra selected as the winner (pictured).
• 1944 – Birth of John Newcombe, Australian tennis player.
• 1994 – Police arrest Belanglo State Forest serial killer Ivan Milat at his New South Wales home. Milat is later sentenced to life imprisonment.

International Observances.

• Aromanian National Day
• Constitution Day (Germany)
• Labour Day (Jamaica)
• Students’ Day (Mexico)
• World Turtle Day

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• 1856 – First Parliament of New South Wales opened by the governor, Sir William Denison.
• 1901 – The foundation stone for St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane (pictured) was laid by the Duke of Cornwall and York, the church celebrated 100 years of construction in 2006, and is only gothic-style stone building under construction anywhere in the world.
• 1998 – Murray Gleeson is appointed as the eleventh Chief Justice of Australia.

International Observances.

• Abolition Day (Martinique)
• Aromanian National Day (marginal, celebration on May 23 is more common)
• Harvey Milk Day (California)
• International Day for Biological Diversity (International)
• United States National Maritime Day
• National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
• Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
• Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (Ukraine)
• Unity Day…

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• 1912 – The steamship SS Koombana sinks off Port Hedland during a cyclone killing the 126 passengers.
• 1962 – The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 received assent, granting all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the option to enrol and vote in federal elections.
• 1972 – Hungarian-born Australian Lazlo Toth attacked Michelangelo’s Pietà with a hammer.
• 1975 – Rugby league footballer and boxer Anthony Mundine is born.
• 1999 – Eight decaying bodies are found in barrels in a disused bank vault north of Adelaide, marking the beginning of the Snowtown murders case.

International Observances.

• Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia)
• Circassian Day of Mourning (Circassians)
• Day of Patriots and Military (Hungary)
• Independence Day, celebrates the Montenegrin independence referendum in 2006, celebrated until the next day. (Montenegro)

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• 1941 – The Battle of Crete, involving the Australian 6th Division (pictured), begins.
• 1997 – A Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report calls for an apology for an early government policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents and placing them in institutions.

International Observances.

• Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
• Emancipation Day (Florida)
• European Maritime Day (European Council)
• Independence Restoration Day, celebrates the independence of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002.
• Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)
• National Awakening Day (Indonesia), and its related observances:
  – Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)
• National Day (Cameroon)
• World Bee Day
• World Metrology Day
• In China, May 20 is observed as a celebration of romantic love, because the digits 520 (Chinese: 五二零; pinyin: wǔ èr líng) sound similar to…

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• 1861 – Dame Nellie Melba (pictured) is born in Richmond, Victoria, Victoria
• 1942 – The prototype CAC Boomerang, an Australian designed and built fighter aircraft, takes to the air for the first time.
• 1948 – Federal government announced that Australian rail gauges would be standardised by 1951.
• 1950 – Cabinet agrees to send forces to aid the British during the Malayan Emergency.
• 2002 – 19th Prime Minister of Australia, John Gorton, dies aged 90.

International Observances.

• Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
• Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
• Hồ Chí Minh’s Birthday (Vietnam)
• Malcolm X Day (United States)
• National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
• Hepatitis Testing Day (United States)
• Mother’s Day (Kyrgyzstan)

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• 1914 – Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar is appointed the sixth Governor General of Australia.
• 1974 – John Howard (pictured) enters Parliament as an Opposition backbencher for the electorate of Bennelong.

International Observances.

• Baltic Fleet Day (Russia)
• Day of Remembrance of Crimean Tatar genocide (Ukraine)
• Independence Day (Somaliland) (unrecognized)
• International Museum Day
• National Speech Pathologist Day (United States)
• Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day (Sri Lankan Tamils)
• Revival, Unity, and Poetry of Magtymguly Day (Turkmenistan)
• Teacher’s Day (Syria)
• Victory Day (Sri Lanka)
• Remembrance Day (Sri Lanka)

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• 1824 – The Supreme Court of New South Wales is created by Letters Patent.
• 1928 – The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (pictured) makes its first official flight from Cloncurry to Julia Creek.
• 1996 – Bob Bellear is appointed to the District Court of New South Wales, becoming the first Indigenous Australian judge.

International Observances.

• Birthday of the Raja (Perlis)
• Children’s Day (Norway)
• Constitution Day (Nauru)
• Constitution Day (Norway)
• Feast of ‘Aẓamat (Baháʼí Faith, day shifts with March Equinox, see List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar)
• Galician Literature Day or Día das Letras Galegas (Galicia)
• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
• Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• National Day Against Homophobia (Canada)
• Navy Day (Argentina)
• World Hypertension Day
• World Information Society…

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• 1954 – World champion boxer Jimmy Carruthers retires, undefeated.
• 1956 – The first post-war British nuclear tests begin in Australia, with Operation Mosaic at Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia.
• 1983 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps aside in response to allegations raised by ABC TV program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

International Observances.

• Martyrs of Sudan (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Mass Graves Day (Iraq)
• National Day, declared by Salva Kiir Mayardit (South Sudan)
• Teachers’ Day (Malaysia)

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• 1982 – In the middle of the Franklin Dam dispute, the Labor government of Harry Holgate is voted out in Tasmania and replaced by the Liberal Party, led by Robin Gray.
• 1989 – Bond University (pictured), the first private university in Australia, opens on the Gold Coast.

International Observances.

• Aoi Matsuri (Kyoto)
• Army Day (Slovenia)
• Constituent Assembly Day (Lithuania)
• Independence Day (Paraguay), celebrates the independence of Paraguay from Spain in 1811. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, May 14.
• International Conscientious Objectors Day
• International Day of Families (International)
• La Corsa dei Ceri begins on the eve of the feast day of Saint Ubaldo. (Gubbio)
• Mother’s Day (Paraguay)
• Nakba Day (Palestinian communities)
• Peace Officers Memorial Day (United States)
• Republic Day (Lithuania)
• Teachers’…

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• 1798 – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society.
• 1829 – Aboriginal mission on Bruny Island opened by George Augustus Robinson.
• 1859 – The Melbourne Football Club, Australia’s oldest football club is founded.
• 1943 – Hospital ship AHS Centaur is sunk by Japanese torpedoes off the coast of Stradbroke Island during World War II, 64 of the 332 armed services personnel on board survived.
• 1969 – Actress Cate Blanchett is born.
• 1984 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
• 2004 – Hobart woman Mary Donaldson marries Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark in Copenhagen to become Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (pictured).

International Observances.

• Earliest day on which the first day of Sanja Matsuri can fall, while May 21 is…

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• 1787 – The First Fleet (pictured) leaves Portsmouth, England, for New South Wales, with the intention of establishing the first European settlement in Australia.
• 1861 – John Tebbutt, of Windsor, New South Wales, discovers what would become known as the “Great Comet of 1861”.
• 1932 – Sir Philip Game, the Governor of New South Wales, dismisses the Labor Party government of Jack Lang (pictured), the Premier of New South Wales.
• 1962 – Paul McDermott, the comedian, performer, and television host, is born in Adelaide.
• 1965 – Following the 1965 state election, Bob Askin is sworn in as Premier of New South Wales, leading for the first time a coalition of the Liberal Party and the Country Party.
• 2012 – A resident of Old South Head Road…

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• 1865 – Bushranger John Gilbert shot dead near Binalong, New South Wales.
• 1997 – Susie Maroney become the first person to swim the Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States.
• 2003 – Governor General Peter Hollingworth (pictured) stands down following accusations that he had attempted to cover up several instances of sexual abuse in the early 1990s during his tenure as Archbishop of Brisbane.

International Observances.

• International ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
• International Nurses Day

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• 1938 – Two jockeys are killed in a racing incident at Morphettville Racecourse.
• 1982 – The High Court upholds the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen.
• 1989 – Rosemary Follett became the first Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory and the first female leader of any Australian state or territory.

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