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The dam wall, Lake Hume

• 1789 – James Ruse becomes the first convict to receive a land grant.
• 1936 – The Hume Dam is completed, creating one of the largest water storage systems in the southern hemisphere.
• 1969 – Death of Norman Lindsay, prolific artist, sculptor, writer and editorial cartoonist, aged 90.