| 1 | 27.10.1728 | Birthday | Captain James Cook, Discoverer of Hawaii, Australia & New Zealand |
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| 2 | 9.4.1770 | Event | The British explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia |
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| 3 | 20.4.1770 | Event | British explorer Captain Cook reached New South Wales, Australia |
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| 4 | 26.1.1788 | Event | The first English convicts arrived in Australia |
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| 5 | 7.9.1815 | Birthday | John McDougall Stuart, Australian explorer |
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| 6 | 9.2.1830 | Event | Charles Sturt discoverd the source of the Murray river in Australia |
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| 7 | 19.10.1833 | Birthday | Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet |
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| 8 | 12.2.1851 | Event | Gold was found in New South Wales, which started the Australian Gold Rush |
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| 9 | 21.5.1851 | Event | Gold was discovered in Australia |
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| 10 | 19.5.1861 | Birthday | Nellie Melba, Australian born soptano singer |
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| 11 | 28.6.1861 | Event | Robert Burke, the Irish born explorer of Australia, died |
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| 12 | 6.9.1880 | Event | The first ever England & Australia test match was played at the Oval |
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| 13 | 11.11.1880 | Event | Ned Kelly, the notorious Australian outlaw, was hanged in Old Melbourne Gaol aged 25 |
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| 14 | 8.7.1882 | Birthday | Percy Grainger, Australian composer |
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| 15 | 27.8.1883 | Event | The volcano Krakatoa erupted, the resulting explosion was heard 2200 miles away in Australia |
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| 16 | 15.3.1887 | Event | The first ever Test Match was played at Melbourne in Australia |
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| 17 | 20.12.1894 | Birthday | Robert Menzies, Australian politician, and former Prime Minister |
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| 18 | 17.9.1900 | Event | A federation of six colonies became the Commonwealth of Australia |
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| 19 | 26.12.1906 | Event | The world's first feature film was made in Australia |
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| 20 | 27.8.1908 | Birthday | Sir Don Bradman, Australian cricketer |
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| 21 | 20.6.1909 | Birthday | Errol Flynn, Australian born Hollywood film actor |
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| 22 | 25.4.1915 | Event | Australian & New Zealand forces landed at Gallipoli |
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| 23 | 20.12.1915 | Event | 90,000 British, Australian and New Zealand troops were evacuated from Gallipoli, after being defeated by the Turks |
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| 24 | 12.11.1919 | Event | The first aeroplane flight to Australia left Hounslow, reaching Darwin on December 13th |
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| 25 | 28.11.1919 | Birthday | Keith Miller, Australian cricketer |
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| 26 | 10.12.1919 | Event | The Smith brothers became the first pilots, to complete a flight from Britain to Australia |
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| 27 | 16.3.1920 | Birthday | Leo McKern, Australian actor of stage and screen |
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| 28 | 7.11.1926 | Birthday | Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer |
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| 29 | 11.1.1929 | Birthday | Rod Taylor, Australian born film actor |
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| 30 | 31.10.1929 | Birthday | Eddie Charlton, Australian snooker player |
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| 31 | 30.3.1930 | Birthday | Rolf Harris, Australian entertainer and artist |
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| 32 | 5.5.1930 | Event | Aviator Amy Johnson left Croydon on her solo flight to Australia |
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| 33 | 6.10.1930 | Birthday | Ritchie Benaud, Sports commentator & former Australian test cricketer |
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| 34 | 17.2.1934 | Birthday | Barry Humphries, Australian actor/creator of 'Dame Edna' |
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| 35 | 2.11.1934 | Birthday | Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis champion |
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| 36 | 23.11.1934 | Birthday | Lew Hoad, Australian 50's tennis player |
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| 37 | 7.11.1935 | Event | Australian Sir Charles Kingford Smith was sighted over Calcutta on a flight from England, never to be seen again |
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| 38 | 4.9.1937 | Birthday | Dawn Fraser, Australian Olympic gold medal swimmer |
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| 39 | 9.8.1938 | Birthday | Rod Laver, Australian tennis player |
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| 40 | 7.10.1939 | Birthday | Clive James, Australian journalist and television presenter |
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| 41 | 22.1.1941 | Event | Tobruk, North Africa, was captured by Australian troops |
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| 42 | 8.12.1941 | Event | As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United States and Australia declared war on Japan |
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| 43 | 19.2.1942 | Event | During World War 2 Darwin, Australia, was bombed by the Japanese |
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| 44 | 16.7.1942 | Birthday | Margaret Court, Australian tennis player |
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| 45 | 26.9.1943 | Birthday | Ian Chappell, Australian cricketer |
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| 46 | 4.10.1943 | Birthday | Owen Davidson, Australian international tennis champion |
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| 47 | 2.11.1946 | Birthday | Alan Jones, Australian grand prix racing driver |
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| 48 | 7.8.1948 | Birthday | Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer |
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| 49 | 16.8.1950 | Birthday | Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer |
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| 50 | 4.12.1950 | Birthday | Pamela Stephenson, Australian born comedy actress |
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| 51 | 31.7.1951 | Birthday | Evonne Crawley, Australian tennis player |
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| 52 | 3.10.1952 | Event | Britain test detonated its first atomic bomb, on an island off the coast of Australia |
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| 53 | 23.10.1952 | Birthday | Steven Tandy, Australian actor; 'The Sullivans' |
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| 54 | 10.2.1955 | Birthday | Greg Norman, Australian golfer |
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| 55 | 27.7.1955 | Birthday | Alan Border, Australian cricketer |
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| 56 | 16.1.1956 | Birthday | Mel Gibson, Australian film actor |
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| 57 | 23.11.1956 | Birthday | Shane Gould, Australian swimmer |
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| 58 | 2.1.1957 | Birthday | Robyn Gibbes, Australian soap actress |
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| 59 | 14.9.1957 | Birthday | Kepler Wessels, Australian cricketer |
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| 60 | 7.12.1957 | Birthday | Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer; fast bowler |
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| 61 | 29.4.1965 | Event | Plans were announced to send Australian troops to Vietnam |
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| 62 | 17.12.1967 | Event | Alec Rose completed a solo 14,500 mile voyage, from Britain to Australia |
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| 63 | 28.5.1968 | Birthday | Kylie Minogue, Australian actress/singer |
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| 64 | 1.1.1969 | Birthday | Nicole Dickson, Australian actress in 'Home & Away' |
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| 65 | 15.10.1970 | Event | In Melbourne, Australia's biggest bridge, the West Gate Bridge, collapsed killing 33 people |
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| 66 | 24.11.1973 | Event | In Australia, Aborigines were given the vote for the first time |
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| 67 | 11.7.1979 | Event | Debris from the US Skylab space station fell on Australia |
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| 68 | 2.3.1986 | Event | The Queen signed a proclamation giving Australia legal independence |
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| 69 | 30.1.1988 | Event | A microlight aircraft landed near Sydney, Australia, to create a record time of 55 days since leaving London |
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| 70 | 3.2.1988 | Event | The Prince and Princess of Wales ended their bicentennial tour of Australia |
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| 71 | 28.12.1989 | Event | An earthquake measuring 5.5 struck New South Wales, Australia |
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| 72 | 24.12.1990 | Event | The Queensland coast, in Australia, was hit by winds of up to 150mph |
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| 73 | 29.11.1991 | Event | Australian cricketer Alan Border made test history when he appeared in his 126th test match |
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| 74 | 19.12.1991 | Event | In Australia, Bob Hawke was deposed as Prime Minister by his colleagues, and replaced by Paul Keating |
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| 75 | 18.9.1993 | Event | The Australian PM announced plans to make Australia a republic by 2001 |
