Here are some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of.

• 1824 – Opening of Supreme Court in Tasmania.
• 1972 – Homosexual Law Professor George Duncan “drowns” in the Torrens River, Adelaide.
• 1996 – Prime Minister John Howard announces gun controls in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre (pictured wearing bullet-proof vest).
• 1996 – Floods in southern Queensland & northern New South Wales kill 5 people & cause more than AUD$55 million in farm losses

International Observances.

• Children’s Day (Maldives)
• Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)
• Constitution Day (Micronesia)
• Earliest possible day on which Pentecost can fall, while June 13 is the latest; celebrated 50 days after Easter Day.(Christianity)
• Golden Spike Day (Promontory, Utah)
• Mother’s Day (Guatemala, and Mexico)

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Here are just some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of.

• 1900 – The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
• 1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne (painting by Tom Roberts).
• 1927 – The federal government moved to Canberra from Melbourne with the opening of the Provisional Parliament House.
• 1980 – Swimmer Grant Hackett is born.
• 1985 – Melbourne criminal Christopher Dale Flannery disappears without trace, presumed murdered.
• 1988 – New Parliament House is opened on Capital Hill by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1991 – Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is released.

International Observances.

• Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances:
  – Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands…

Here are just some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of.

• 1809 – Lachlan Macquarie is appointed to replace William Bligh Governor of New South Wales, with William Patterson governing until Macquarie’s arrival in the colony.
• 1948 – Margaret McIntyre, the first female member of the Parliament of Tasmania, assumes the seat of Cornwall in the Legislative Council.
• 1963 – Anthony Field, a founder of The Wiggles, is born in Kellyville, New South Wales.
• 1970 – An estimated 100,000 people participate in protests against Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War (pictured).
• 1972 – Darren Hayes, the frontman of the pop duo Savage Garden, is born in Brisbane.
• 2011 – Lionel Rose, a WBC bantamweight world champion boxer and the 1968 Australian of the Year, dies in Warragul, Victoria, aged 62

International Observances.

• Earliest day on which…