Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/June

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June 1

Loch Ard

• 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.

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June 2

Statue of Weary Dunlop in King's Domain, Melbourne

• 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 born.
• 1993 – Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop dies.

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June 3

Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne (foreground) and the aircraft carrier USS Midway

• 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 .

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June 4

A reproduction of the Batavia

• 1629 – The Batavia 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

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June 5

Central Mount Stuart after rain.

• 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.

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June 6

Sewn and incised possum skins of Wurundjeri origin (Melbourne Museum)

• 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.

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June 7

Redmond Barry

• 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.

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June 8

Flag of Norfolk Island

• 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 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 – Homosexuality is decriminalised in the state of New South Wales.

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June 9

Robert Brown, botanist

• 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.

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June 10

First Issue of the Australian Women's Weekly

• 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 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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June 11

The Senate

• 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 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.

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June 12

Portrait of William Spence in 1908.

• 1789 – The Hawkesbury River is discovered by Governor Arthur Phillip.
• 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.

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June 13

Rt Hon Ben Chifley

• 1917 – Charles McDonald ceased being Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives.
• 1927 – Country music singer Slim Dusty 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.

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June 14

Turon River close to Sofala on the road to Hill End

• 1825 – Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively from New South Wales, it becomes fully independent in December.
• 1851 – Gold discovered at the Turon River, New South Wales, the diggings became the richest in New South Wales.
• 1883 – Trains link Sydney and Melbourne.
• 1893 – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
• 1943 – Forty American service personnel are killed in Australia's deadliest aviation disaster at Bakers Creek, Queensland.
• 1968 – Pacifist Simon Townsend (later TV entertainer) was granted exemption from National Service after being detained at Ingleburn Army Camp on bread and water rations.
• 1982 – Arthur Coles, businessman and philanthropist, dies.

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June 15

Yallourn Power Station

• 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 dies from heroin overdose.
• 1997 – Jaidyn Leskie murder – toddler murdered and found dumped in a dam near Moe, Victoria.

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June 16

Charles Sturt c. 1849

• 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, Aboriginal activist is born.
• 1950 – Butter rationing ends.
• 1993 – Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer dies.

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June 17

Henry Lawson

• 1867 – Birth date of Henry Lawson.
• 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.

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June 18

Art Gallery of South Australia

• 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.

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June 19

Hamilton Hume

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

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June 20

Adelaide Town Hall

• 1790 – The Second Fleet arrives at Port Jackson.
• 1866 – Adelaide's Town Hall 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.

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June 21

• 1845 – News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
• 1913 – HMAS Australia 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.

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June 22

• 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 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.

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June 23

6d "kangaroo & map", used at Woolloongabba, Queensland

• 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 kills 15.

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June 24

Rt Hon Sir Joseph Cook

• 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 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.

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June 25

Gundagai, New South Wales

• 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 opens.
• 1912 – Landscape gardener and botanist William Guilfoyle died.

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June 26

Marree Man

• 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 appears in the desert near Marree, South Australia.
• 2006 – The world's first successful triple organ transplant is performed in Australia.

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June 27

Sir James McCulloch

• 1863 – James McCulloch, the fifth Premier of Victoria, takes office.
• 1911 – The Royal Military College, Duntroon 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.

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June 28

Rt Hon Billy Hughes

• 1880 – Ned Kelly 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.

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June 29

Memorial statue of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey in King's Domain, Melbourne

• 1888 – Birth date of Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
• 1939 – Birth date of cricketer Alan Connolly.
• 1942 – General Thomas Blamey reorganises the army for the defence of Australia.

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June 30

Ferdinand von Mueller

• 1825 – German Australian Sir Ferdinand von Mueller 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.

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