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• 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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• 1939 – John Howard (pictured), later Prime Minister of Australia, born in Sydney.
• 1950 – Australia announces that it will send troops to the Korean War.
• 2003 – Australian artist and eight-time Archibald Prize winner Sir William Dargie dies.

International Observances.

• Day of National Significance (Barbados)
• Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba)
• Esperanto Day
• Independence Day (Liberia), celebrates the independence of Liberia from the American Colonization Society in 1847.
• Independence Day (Maldives), celebrates the independence of Maldives from the United Kingdom in 1965.
• Kargil Victory Day or Kargil Vijay Diwas (India)

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• 1916 – Thomas Cooke died in the Battle of Pozières and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallantry in the face of the enemy.
• 1956 – The film A Town Like Alice (pictured) premieres in Alice Springs.
• 1994 – Telephone numbers throughout Australia begin changing to eight digits.

International Observances.

• Earliest day on which Father’s Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Dominican Republic)
• Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Australia)
• Earliest day on which Navy Day can fall, while July 31 is the latest; celebrated on last Sunday in July. (Russia)
• Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
• National…

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• 1900 – Neville Howse rescues a fallen ally under heavy fire during the Second Boer War, becoming the first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• 1983 – Golf champion Jack Newton (pictured) loses his right arm when he walks into a plane’s spinning propeller.

International Observances.

• Carnival of Awussu (Tunisia)
• Children’s Day (Vanuatu)
• Pioneer Day (Utah)
• Police Day (Poland)
• Simón Bolívar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
• Navy Day (Venezuela)

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• 1773 – Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, namesake of Brisbane, is born.
• 1916 – Arthur Seaforth Blackburn and John Leak awarded the Victoria Cross for their separate actions at the Battle of Pozières.
• 1938 – Bert Newton, award-winning media personality, is born.
• 1995 – Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke marries his biographer, Blanche d’Alpuget.

International Observances.

• Birthday of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)
• Children’s Day (Indonesia)
• National Remembrance Day (Papua New Guinea)
• Renaissance Day (Oman)
• Revolution Day (Egypt)

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• 1870 – A state flag of South Australia is adopted.
• 1938 – The Australian National War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France is opened.
• 1983 – Aviator and businessman Dick Smith (pictured) completes the first solo round the world helicopter flight.

International Observances.

• Birthday of the Late King Sobhuza (Eswatini)
• Earliest day on which Parents’ Day can fall, while 28 July is the latest; celebrated on the fourth Sunday in July. (United States)
• National Press Day (Azerbaijan)
• Pi Approximation Day, see also March 14
• Ratcatcher’s Day
• Revolution Day (The Gambia)
• Sarawak Independence Day (Sarawak, Malaysia)

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• 1795 – George Gawler, second Governor of South Australia, is born in Southsea.
• 1961 – Morris Iemma, Premier of New South Wales, is born.
• 1991 – Greek tanker Kirki (pictured) spills 17,280 tons of crude oil off the coast of Western Australia, the biggest oil spill in Australian waters.

International Observances.

• Liberation Day in 1944 (Guam)
• Belgian National Day (Belgium)
• Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
• Summer Kazanskaya (Russia)

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• 1972 – Police in Canberra disassemble the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (pictured) and arrest eight protesters; it is reestablished in October.
• 1978 – Middle-distance runner Tamsyn Manou is born.
• 1979 – Inaugural meeting of the National Farmers’ Federation
• 2002 – The ALP government of Jim Bacon is re-elected for a second term in Tasmania.

International Observances.

• Birthday of Crown Prince Haakon Magnus (Norway)
• Día del Amigo (Argentina, Brazil)
• Engineer’s Day (Costa Rica)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence declaration of Colombia from Spain in 1810.
• International Chess Day
• Lempira Day (Honduras)
• Tree Planting Day (Central African Republic)

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• 1915 – Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
• 1916 – Battle of Fromelles, the first battle on the Western Front involving Australia; the Australian 5th Division suffered 5,533 casualties in one night.
• 1940 – The Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney takes part in the sinking of the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni.
• 1946 – Orange, New South Wales (pictured) is proclaimed a city.
• 1958 – The last tram service runs in Perth, Western Australia.
• 1987 – The final episode of music program Countdown is broadcast on the ABC.

International Observances.

• Palace Day
• Martyrs’ Day (Myanmar)
• Sandinista Day or Liberation Day (Nicaragua)

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• 1914 – Maurice Guillaux lands in Sydney – The first airmail delivery from Melbourne to Sydney is achieved.
• 1928 – Russell Mockridge, Olympic gold medal winning cyclist, born in South Melbourne, Victoria.
• 1983 – The first death attributable to AIDS occurred in Australia.
• 1984 – The National Crime Authority is established.
• 2005 – Amy Gillett (pictured), cyclist and rower, is killed in Germany in a road accident.

International Observances.

• Constitution Day (Uruguay)
• Nelson Mandela International Day

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