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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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• 1964 – Donald Campbell (pictured) set a record of 403.10 mph for jet propelled four-wheeled vehicles (Class A) on Lake Eyre.
• 2014 – Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by Russian-controlled forces over Ukraine killing all 298 on board, including 27 Australians.

International Observances.

• Constitution Day (South Korea)
• Gion Matsuri (Yasaka Shrine, Kyoto)
• Independence Day (Slovakia)
• International Firgun Day (international)
• King’s Birthday (Lesotho)
• U Tirot Sing Day (Meghalaya, India)
• World Day for International Justice (International)
• World Emoji Day (International)

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• 1800 – Reverends Richard Johnson and Samuel Marsden open a church school at Ryde.
• 1914 – Maurice Guillaux (pictured) leaves Melbourne to fly to Sydney in a Blériot monoplane in the first delivery of airmail. He arrived in Sydney on 18 July after nine and a half hours of flying time.
• 1962 – Public funding of private schools becomes an issue following a strike by parents and the community who closed Catholic schools in Goulburn, New South Wales.
• 1986 – An explosion at Moura No. 4 mine in Moura, Queensland kills 12 people.

International Observances.

• Engineer’s Day (Honduras)
• Holocaust Memorial Day (France)
• Guinea Pig Appreciation Day

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• 1851 – Charles La Trobe (pictured) appointed as first Lieutenant Governor of Victoria.
• 1912 – The first branch of the Commonwealth Bank opens.
• 1940 – The Volunteer Defence Force, composed mainly of World War I veterans, was formed for home defence by the Returned Services League.
• 1977 – Anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, presumed murdered.
• 1995 – The Queensland state election produces a hung Parliament, but with the support of Gladstone-based independent Liz Cunningham the coalition form the government in Queensland.

International Observances.

• Bon Festival (Kantō region, Japan)
• Earliest day on which Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera can fall, while July 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday of July. (Puerto Rico)
• Earliest day on which Galla…

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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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