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

• 1861 – Dame Nellie Melba (pictured) is born in Richmond, Victoria, Victoria
• 1942 – The prototype CAC Boomerang, an Australian designed and built fighter aircraft, takes to the air for the first time.
• 1948 – Federal government announced that Australian rail gauges would be standardised by 1951.
• 1950 – Cabinet agrees to send forces to aid the British during the Malayan Emergency.
• 2002 – 19th Prime Minister of Australia, John Gorton, dies aged 90.

International Observances.

• Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece)
• Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
• Hồ Chí Minh’s Birthday (Vietnam)
• Malcolm X Day (United States)
• National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
• Hepatitis Testing Day (United States)
• Mother’s Day (Kyrgyzstan)

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

• 1914 – Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar is appointed the sixth Governor General of Australia.
• 1974 – John Howard (pictured) enters Parliament as an Opposition backbencher for the electorate of Bennelong.

International Observances.

• Baltic Fleet Day (Russia)
• Day of Remembrance of Crimean Tatar genocide (Ukraine)
• Independence Day (Somaliland) (unrecognized)
• International Museum Day
• National Speech Pathologist Day (United States)
• Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day (Sri Lankan Tamils)
• Revival, Unity, and Poetry of Magtymguly Day (Turkmenistan)
• Teacher’s Day (Syria)
• Victory Day (Sri Lanka)
• Remembrance Day (Sri Lanka)

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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 – The Supreme Court of New South Wales is created by Letters Patent.
• 1928 – The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (pictured) makes its first official flight from Cloncurry to Julia Creek.
• 1996 – Bob Bellear is appointed to the District Court of New South Wales, becoming the first Indigenous Australian judge.

International Observances.

• Birthday of the Raja (Perlis)
• Children’s Day (Norway)
• Constitution Day (Nauru)
• Constitution Day (Norway)
• Feast of ‘Aẓamat (Baháʼí Faith, day shifts with March Equinox, see List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar)
• Galician Literature Day or Día das Letras Galegas (Galicia)
• International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
• Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• National Day Against Homophobia (Canada)
• Navy Day (Argentina)
• World Hypertension Day
• World Information Society…

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

• 1954 – World champion boxer Jimmy Carruthers retires, undefeated.
• 1956 – The first post-war British nuclear tests begin in Australia, with Operation Mosaic at Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia.
• 1983 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps aside in response to allegations raised by ABC TV program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

International Observances.

• Martyrs of Sudan (Episcopal Church (USA))
• Mass Graves Day (Iraq)
• National Day, declared by Salva Kiir Mayardit (South Sudan)
• Teachers’ Day (Malaysia)

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• 1982 – In the middle of the Franklin Dam dispute, the Labor government of Harry Holgate is voted out in Tasmania and replaced by the Liberal Party, led by Robin Gray.
• 1989 – Bond University (pictured), the first private university in Australia, opens on the Gold Coast.

International Observances.

• Aoi Matsuri (Kyoto)
• Army Day (Slovenia)
• Constituent Assembly Day (Lithuania)
• Independence Day (Paraguay), celebrates the independence of Paraguay from Spain in 1811. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, May 14.
• International Conscientious Objectors Day
• International Day of Families (International)
• La Corsa dei Ceri begins on the eve of the feast day of Saint Ubaldo. (Gubbio)
• Mother’s Day (Paraguay)
• Nakba Day (Palestinian communities)
• Peace Officers Memorial Day (United States)
• Republic Day (Lithuania)
• Teachers’…

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

• 1798 – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society.
• 1829 – Aboriginal mission on Bruny Island opened by George Augustus Robinson.
• 1859 – The Melbourne Football Club, Australia’s oldest football club is founded.
• 1943 – Hospital ship AHS Centaur is sunk by Japanese torpedoes off the coast of Stradbroke Island during World War II, 64 of the 332 armed services personnel on board survived.
• 1969 – Actress Cate Blanchett is born.
• 1984 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
• 2004 – Hobart woman Mary Donaldson marries Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark in Copenhagen to become Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (pictured).

International Observances.

• Earliest day on which the first day of Sanja Matsuri can fall, while May 21 is…

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

• 1787 – The First Fleet (pictured) leaves Portsmouth, England, for New South Wales, with the intention of establishing the first European settlement in Australia.
• 1861 – John Tebbutt, of Windsor, New South Wales, discovers what would become known as the “Great Comet of 1861”.
• 1932 – Sir Philip Game, the Governor of New South Wales, dismisses the Labor Party government of Jack Lang (pictured), the Premier of New South Wales.
• 1962 – Paul McDermott, the comedian, performer, and television host, is born in Adelaide.
• 1965 – Following the 1965 state election, Bob Askin is sworn in as Premier of New South Wales, leading for the first time a coalition of the Liberal Party and the Country Party.
• 2012 – A resident of Old South Head Road…

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

• 1865 – Bushranger John Gilbert shot dead near Binalong, New South Wales.
• 1997 – Susie Maroney become the first person to swim the Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States.
• 2003 – Governor General Peter Hollingworth (pictured) stands down following accusations that he had attempted to cover up several instances of sexual abuse in the early 1990s during his tenure as Archbishop of Brisbane.

International Observances.

• International ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
• International Nurses Day

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

• 1938 – Two jockeys are killed in a racing incident at Morphettville Racecourse.
• 1982 – The High Court upholds the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen.
• 1989 – Rosemary Follett became the first Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory and the first female leader of any Australian state or territory.

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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…