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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.
• 2002 –…

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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…

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• 1852 – The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground.
• 1867 – Bushrangers the Clarke brothers executed in Sydney.
• 1908 – Art Gallery of Western Australia (pictured) opens.
• 1912 – Landscape gardener and botanist William Guilfoyle died.

International Observances.

• Arbor Day (Philippines)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975.
• National Catfish Day (United States)
• Statehood Day (Slovenia)
• Statehood Day (Virginia)
• Teacher’s Day (Guatemala)
• World Vitiligo Day

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• 1826 – Birth of George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia.
• 1856 – Queen Victoria makes Norfolk Island a separate settlement from Tasmania to be administered by the Governor of New South Wales.
• 1913 – Joseph Cook becomes the sixth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1953 – British and Australian governments announced Britain was developing atomic weapons and they would be tested in Australia.
• 1978 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (pictured) is held to mark International Gay Solidarity Day.
• 1987 – Christopher Skase buys the Seven Network.
• 1992 – Nick Greiner resigns as Premier of New South Wales after corruption finding against him.
• 2010 – Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia.

International Observances.

• Army Day or…

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• 1860 – Sir Baldwin Spencer, the first person to study Australia anthropology, was born in Britain.
• 1903 – The first Australian postage stamps are issued, replacing pre-federation colonial stamps.
• 1979 – The Eastern Suburbs railway line is opened.
• 2000 – A fire at a backpacker hostel at Childers, Queensland (pictured) kills 15.

International Observances.

• Father’s Day (Nicaragua, Poland)
• Grand Duke’s Official Birthday (Luxembourg)
• International Widows Day (international)
• National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism (Canada)
• Okinawa Memorial Day (Okinawa Prefecture)
• Saint John’s Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations [although this is not the real summer solstice; see June 20] (Roman Catholic Church, Europe):
  – Bonfires of Saint John (Spain)
  – First night of Festa de São João do…

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• 1896 – The second Victoria Bridge is opened in Brisbane by the Governor of Queensland, Lord Lamington. The previous bridge was destroyed by floodwaters.
• 1903 – Garfield Barwick, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia is born in Sydney.
• 1926 – The Council for Scientific Research (CSIR) formed; later became the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
• 1938 – Poet C. J. Dennis (pictured) died.
• 1957 – Garry Gary Beers, bassist for INXS is born.
• 1977 – The Uniting Church of Australia is formed from the Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.

International Observances.

• Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatia)
• Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War (Belarus)
• Father’s Day (Guernsey, Isle of Man, and Jersey)
• Teachers’ Day (El Salvador)

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• 1845 – News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
• 1913 – HMAS Australia (pictured) is commissioned at Portsmouth as flagship of the Royal Australian Navy.
• 1933 – Maude Bonney becomes the first woman to fly from Australia to England.
• 1954 – John Landy is the second man in the world to run a mile in under 4 minutes, setting a world record time of 3 mins 58 secs at Turku, Finland.

International Observations.

• Day of the Martyrs (Togo)
• Father’s Day (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Uganda, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates)
• Go Skateboarding Day
• International Yoga Day (international)
• National Aboriginal Day (Canada)
• Solstice-related observances (see also June 20):
  – Day of…

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• 1790 – The Second Fleet arrives at Port Jackson.
• 1866 – Adelaide’s Town Hall (pictured) opens.
• 1927 – Film premiere of For the Term of his Natural Life.
• 1949 – Lance Sharkey, chairman of the Communist Party, is convicted for sedition.
• 1999 – Australia wins the 1999 Cricket World Cup, defeating Pakistan in the final.
• 2002 – Australia decided to ratify the International Criminal Court.

International Observations.

• Day of the National Flag (Argentina)
• Earliest possible date for the summer solstice in the Northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the Southern hemisphere, and its related observance:
  – Earliest day on which Day of the Finnish Flag can fall, while June 26 is the latest; celebrated on Saturday of Midsummer’s Day (Finland)
  –…

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• 1797 – Australian explorer Hamilton Hume born at Parramatta, New South Wales
• 1946 – Hon. John Dedman introduced legislation to establish the Australian National University (pictured).
• 1969 – Equal pay for women granted by the Arbitration Commission.

International Observances.

• Day of the Independent Hungary (Hungary)
• Feast of Forest (Palawan)
• Juneteenth (United States)
• Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
• Laguna Day (Laguna)
• Birthday of Jose Gervasio Artigas (Uruguay)
• World Sickle Cell Day (International)

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• 1827 – James Stirling establishes a settlement at Raffles Bay.
• 1829 – Official proclamation of the Swan River Colony.
• 1881 – The Art Gallery of South Australia opened by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.
• 1938 – Birth date of footballer Kevin Murray.

International Observances.

• Autistic Pride Day (International)
• Foundation Day (Benguet)
• Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan)
• National Day (Seychelles)
• Queen Mother’s Birthday (Cambodia)
• Waterloo Day (United Kingdom)

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• 1867 – Birth date of Henry Lawson (pictured).
• 1891 – The Labor party first entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly with 35 members elected.
• 1893 – Prospector Paddy Hannan files a Reward Claim, announcing the discovery of gold at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.
• 1932 – Politician, lawyer and author John Quick dies.

International Observances.

• Father’s Day (El Salvador, Guatemala)
• Icelandic National Day, celebrates the independence of Iceland from Kingdom of Denmark in 1944.
• National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Forest Fires (Portugal)
• Occupation of the Latvian Republic Day (Latvia)
• World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (international)
• Zemla Intifada Day (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

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• 1792 – Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell, surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born.
• 1869 – Explorer Charles Sturt died.
• 1884 – The South Australian government of John Bray lost a no confidence motion over the introduction of a new tax and Bray was replaced as premier by the opposition leader John Colton.
• 1906 – The town of Roma, Queensland becomes the first town in Australia to be lit and powered by natural gas, however the gas reserve only lasts ten days.
• 1936 – Charles Perkins (pictured), Aboriginal activist, is born.
• 1950 – Butter rationing ends.
• 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer dies.

International Observances.

• Birthday of Leonard P. Howell (Rastafari)
• Bloomsday (Dublin, Ireland)
• Engineer’s Day (Argentina)
• Father’s Day (Seychelles)
• International…

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• 1862 – Frank Gardiner, Ben Hall and Johnny Gilbert bailed up the Lachlan Gold Escort in Eugowra Rocks near Forbes, New South Wales. This hold up is still considered to be the largest ever gold robbery in Australia’s history.
• 1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
• 1924 – Yallourn Power Station began operating.
• 1952 – Clare Martin, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is born.
• 1992 – Painter Brett Whiteley (pictured) dies from heroin overdose.
• 1997 – Jaidyn Leskie murder – toddler murdered and found dumped in a dam near Moe, Victoria.

International Observances.

• Arbor Day (Costa Rica)
• Day of Valdemar and Reunion Day (Flag Day) (Denmark)
• Engineer’s Day (Italy)
• Global…