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• 1917 – Charles McDonald ceased being Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.
• 1927 – Country music singer Slim Dusty (pictured) born.
• 1933 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is established.
• 1951 – Former prime minister Ben Chifley died.
• 1959 – Politician Steve Georganas born.
• 1998 – The ruling National Party government of Rob Borbidge is defeated and a minority ALP government, led by Peter Beattie is elected in Queensland.

International Observances.

• Inventors’ Day (Hungary)
• Suleimaniah City Fallen and Martyrs Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
• International Albinism Awareness Day (international) Inventors’ Day (Hungary)

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• 1789 – The Hawkesbury River is discovered by Governor Arthur Phillip (pictured).
• 1883 – The first Australasian headquarters of the Salvation Army opened in Melbourne.
• 1886 – William Spence chaired a meeting of shearers in Ballarat, Victoria at which the unanimous decision was to form the Amalgamated Shearers’ Union which later became part of the Australian Workers Union.
• 1902 – The Commonwealth Franchise Act granted most Australian women the right to vote and stand in federal elections.
• 1956 – A free mass vaccination program with Salk polio vaccine commences.
• 1996 – Two Australian Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters collide near Townsville killing 18 soldiers.

International Observances.

• Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay)
• Dia dos Namorados (Brazil)
• Helsinki Day (Finland)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence…

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• 1932 – Food relief reached its peak in New South Wales with 413,171 food orders processed in the preceding four weeks.
• 1937 – Robin Warren, Nobel Prize winner, is born.
• 1964 – The Beatles (pictured) began their three week tour of Australia; in Adelaide 300,000 fans turned out to see the band drive in a motorcade from the airport into the city.
• 1971 – Neville Bonner is sworn into the Australian Senate – he is the first Aboriginal federal parliamentarian.

International Observances.

• American Evacuation Day (Libya)
• Brazilian Navy commemorative day (Brazil)
• Davis Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada)
• King Kamehameha I Day (Hawaii, United States)
• Student Day (Honduras)

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• 1770 – Captain James Cook’s ship HM Bark Endeavour strikes a reef within the Great Barrier Reef.
• 1835 – Australia’s first political party, the Australian Patriotic Party, is founded.
• 1868 – Politician and unionist Harry Holland (pictured) is born near Queanbeyan, New South Wales.
• 1916 – A large majority approves a referendum in New South Wales deciding hotels should close at six o’clock for the duration of the war and six months thereafter; early closing came into force in NSW from 21 July lasting until 1955.
• 1933 – The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine is launched by Robert Clyde Packer and his son Frank.
• 1960 – The Abel Tasman crashes at Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 persons, the largest air disaster in Australian history.

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• 1803 – HMS Investigator arrives in Port Jackson after circumnavigating Australia. On the voyage Matthew Flinders charted the coast and Robert Brown made an extensive collection of the flora of Australia.
• 1838 – 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.
• 1925 – Ten people killed in a train derailment at Traveston, Queensland
• 1979 – Seven people die in a fire on the ghost train at Luna Park Sydney.

International Observances.

• Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
• Autonomy Day (Åland)
• Coral Triangle Day
• La Rioja Day (La Rioja)
• Murcia Day (Murcia)
• National Heroes’ Day (Uganda)

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• 1805 – John Macarthur returns to New South Wales as a civilian settler; the British Government accepts his resignation from the New South Wales Corps and approves his return.
• 1856 – Bounty Day is celebrated each year in Norfolk Island, in memory of the arrival of the Pitcairn Islanders.
• 1919 – Sir Henry Briggs, President of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 13 years, dies.
• 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith (pictured) completes the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia in the Southern Cross.
• 1942 – Japanese submarines shell Sydney and Newcastle.
• 1951 – The School of the Air officially opens.
• 1983 – The first triplets resulting from in-vitro fertilization were born at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide.
• 1983…

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• 1494 – Treaty of Tordesillas signed, dividing the world outside of Europe in an exclusive duopoly between the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire. The longitudes in the treaty coincide with the Western Australia border.
• 1813 – Birth date of Sir Redmond Barry, the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly.
• 1841 – Darlinghurst Gaol took in its first prisoners.
• 1980 – Paul Everingham’s Country Liberal Party government is re-elected in the Northern Territory.
• 1998 – Susie Maroney swims from Mexico to Cuba, covering the longest distance ever swum without flippers in open sea.

International Observances.

• Battle of Arica Day (Arica y Parinacota Region, Chile)
• Flag Day (Peru)
• Journalist Day (Argentina)
• Anniversary of the Memorandum of the Slovak Nation (Slovakia)
• Birthday of Prince Joachim…

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• 1835 – Batman’s Treaty is created between John Batman and Wurundjeri elders to secure the land around Port Phillip Bay for the establishment of Melbourne. The treaty was later declared void by the Governor of New South Wales, Richard Bourke.
• 1859 – The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.
• 1915 – The BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle.
• 1916 – The Returned and Services League of Australia was founded.
• 1943 – Butter and household linen is rationed.
• 1999 – Sydney Swans player Tony Lockett becomes the highest goal-kicker in Australian rules football.

International Observances.

• D-Day Invasion Anniversary
• Engineer’s Day in Taiwan
• Korean Children’s Union Foundation Day in North Korea
• Memorial Day in South Korea
• National Day of Sweden, marking…

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• 1823 – A path through the Liverpool Range, now known as Pandora’s Pass, is found by Allan Cunningham.
• 1866 – John McDouall Stuart, the most accomplished and most famous of all Australia’s inland explorers, died.
• 1909 – Steam trams begin operation in Rockhampton, Queensland.
• 1909 – Archibald Peake, South Australian leader of the Commonwealth Liberal Party, becomes Premier of South Australia.
• 1981 – Rupert Hamer resigns as Premier of Victoria after losing the support of his party.
• 1988 – Kay Cottee completes the first single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation of the world by a woman.
• 2002 – Actress Gwen Plumb dies.

International Observances.

• Arbor Day (New Zealand)
• Constitution Day (Denmark)
• Father’s Day (Denmark)
• Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)
• Liberation Day (Seychelles)
• President’s Day (Equatorial Guinea)

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• 1629 – The Batavia (pictured) struck a reef on Beacon Island off the Western Australian coast, part of the Houtman Abrolhos.
• 1924 – The first human voice was successfully transmitted from London to Australia from Marconi’s experimental station.
• 1942 – The Uniform Income Tax Act, giving the Commonwealth government the sole right to collect tax for the duration of the war, came into effect.
• 1959 – The Soviet embassy in Canberra re-opened after closing in 1954 as a result of the Petrov Affair.
• 1985 – Melbourne celebrates its 150th anniversary

International Observances.

• Birthday of C. G. E. Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland and the flag flying day of the Finnish Defence Forces (Finland)
• Emancipation Day or Independence Day, commemorates the abolition of serfdom…

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• 1929 – Fremantle, Western Australia, is proclaimed a city.
• 1969 – The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 US sailors.
• 1991 – Paul Keating made his first leadership challenge for the Australian Labor Party. Bob Hawke won 66–44 and Keating resigned as Treasurer the same day.
• 1992 – Mabo v Queensland is decided upon by the High Court of Australia, making irrelevant the doctrine of terra nullius and recognising the existence of Native Title land rights.

International Observances.

• Roman Empire: Festival for the goddess Bellona.
• Confederate Memorial Day (Kentucky, Louisiana, and Tennessee, United States)
• Economist day (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Mabo Day (Australia)
• Opium Suppression Movement Day (Taiwan)
• World Bicycle…

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• 1802 – Pemulwuy is shot and killed following the killing of four white men at Parramatta and Toongabbie.
• 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• 1965 – Australian cricketing twins Mark and Steve Waugh (pictured) born.
• 1993 – Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop dies.

International Observances.

• Children’s Day (North Korea)
• Civil Aviation Day (Azerbaijan)
• Coronation of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, also Social Forestry Day (Bhutan)
• Day of Hristo Botev (Bulgaria)
• Decoration Day (Canada)
• Festa della Repubblica (Italy)
• International Sex Workers Day
• Telangana Day (Telangana, India)

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• 1878 – Loch Ard, a clipper ship is wrecked at Mutton Bird Island just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria.
• 1948 – The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was introduced by the Australian Government to provide subsidised prescription medication.
• 2004 – Australian Jennifer Hawkins wins the Miss Universe contest, held in Quito, Ecuador.
• 2005 – A letter containing a white powder results in the 2005 Indonesian embassy bioterrorism hoax.

International Observances.

• Children’s Day (International), and its related observances:
  – The Day of Protection of Children Rights (Armenia)
  – Mothers’ and Children’s Day (Mongolia)
• Earliest day on which June Holiday can fall, while June 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday in June. (Ireland)
• Earliest day on which Labour Day can fall, while…

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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)