Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January

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January 1

John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, was Australia's first Governor-General.

Victoria
.
1856 – Van Diemen's Land is granted self-government, with the name of the island and colony officially changed to Tasmania.
John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (pictured) appointed as the first Governor-General of Australia
.

Broken Hill, New South Wales
.

1983 – The Closer Economic Relations free trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand comes into force.
preferential trade agreement
between Australia and the United States, comes into force.

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January 2

Letters Patent
, five days after the founding of the colony.
Kangaroo and Map
series of stamps.
1943 – Australia sends its first envoy to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
1961 – Combined oral contraceptive pills are first sold in Australia
1992 – George H. W. Bush becomes the first President of the United States to address the Parliament of Australia.

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January 3

Derwent River
.
1840 – The Melbourne newspaper The Herald is founded by George Cavenagh as The Port Phillip Herald.
1870 – A state flag of Western Australia is adopted.
Leg break and googly bowler Arthur Mailey
is born in Sydney.

1900 – Electric lighting is installed on Adelaide streets.

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January 4

1854 – Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovers the McDonald Islands.
1982 – Former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon resigns his seat in Parliament.
Fremantle prison
causes AUD$1.8 million damage.
Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai dies at the Gold Coast of a heart attack
.

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January 5

1891 – The 1891 Australian shearers' strike begins, which leads to the formation of the Australian Labor Party.
1966 – Construction of Waverley Park in Melbourne begins.
One-day International cricket match is played at the MCG
, between Australia and England.

1975 – The Tasman Bridge disaster claims 12 lives.

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January 6

1930 – Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings.
1932 – Joseph Lyons becomes the tenth Prime Minister of Australia.
1939 – Swimming champion Murray Rose is born in Nairn, Scotland.
1980 – Guillermo Vilas defeats John Sadri to win the Australian Open tennis Championship.
2004 – Australian captain Steve Waugh retires from Test cricket, playing his last match against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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January 7

1799 – Bass and Flinders complete their circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land.
Chinese
miners.
1920 – Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia, dies aged 70.
1931 – Guy Menzies completes the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney to the West Coast of New Zealand.
1965 – The first hydrofoil ferry begins operation in Sydney.

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January 8

1810 – The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen’s Land, begins publication.
1878 – The telephone is used for the first time in Australia in Melbourne.
Victoria
.
1904 – Death of art collector and philanthropist Alfred Felton and the establishment of the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery of Victoria.

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January 9

convicts arrive in Western Australia
.

1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson is appointed the second Governor-General of Australia.
test match at Blackheath's Rectory Field
in England.

1997 – Yachtsman Tony Bullimore is found alive five days after his boat capsized in the Southern Ocean.

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January 10

Perth
.
1968 – John Gorton becomes the nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
1977 – The Easey Street murders, an unsolved crime in which two women were brutally stabbed to death in their home in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.
1989 – Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home.
2006 – Six Australians die when a bus flips over in Egypt.

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January 11

1965 – The Wanda Beach Murders occur in Sydney and remain unsolved.
Gateway Bridge
opens in Brisbane.
1990 – Convicted drug trafficker Warren Fellows receives a royal pardon and is released from jail in Thailand
bushfires in South Australia, making them the worst fires seen in Australia since Ash Wednesday
.

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January 12

1943 – Australian and American forces begin attack on Sanananda during the Battle of Buna–Gona.
1976 – Eight-year-old Eloise Worledge is abducted from her home in Beaumaris, Victoria. No trace of her has ever been found.
2003 – Maurice Gibb of the band the Bee Gees passes away.
Victorian Bushrangers
. It drew a sellout crowd of 20,700.

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January 13

Governor-General of all Her Majesty's Australian possessions". This position was a forerunner of the Governor-General of Australia
.

Black Friday bushfires

.

1939 – Melbourne records its hottest temperature of 45.6 degrees Celsius.
1995 – Poet, critic, publisher and bookseller Max Harris, founder of the literary journal Angry Penguins, dies aged 73.
2004 – The Spirit of Tasmania III makes its inaugural trip from Sydney to Devonport. It ceased in 2006.

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January 14

David Collins commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip
.

Blue Mountains is completed to the Macquarie River
.

1962 – Bushfires ravage Lara and the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, causing 14 deaths.
1968 – Poet Dorothea Mackellar dies. Her most well known work is My Country.
1977 – Actor Peter Finch dies.
One Nation Party
.
2002 – CASA grounds 5000 light aircraft that had used contaminated Mobil fuel.

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January 15

canonised, is born in Fitzroy, Victoria
.

Japanese 20th Division in the protracted Huon Peninsula
Campaign.

1944 – The destroyer HMAS Bataan is launched by the wife of US General Douglas MacArthur.
1987 – Greg Inglis, rugby league player for the Melbourne Storm, is born in Kempsey, New South Wales.

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January 16

1796 – Australia's first theatre opens in Sydney.
1962 – Frank Hurley, the first official Australian Imperial Force photographer, dies.
Templestowe
home.
2006 – Premier of Western Australia Geoff Gallop resigns, citing clinical depression as the reason.

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January 17

1899 – Novelist Nevil Shute is born in Ealing, London.
1922 – The first Archibald Prize for portraiture is won by William McInnes.
1944 – Meat rationing began in Australia.
Cyclone Ada hits Central Queensland
, killing 14.

1972 – A tent embassy is set up in Canberra outside Parliament House, protesting land rights.

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January 18

Lt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Commander of Supply

HMS Supply of the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay
.

Port Augusta, South Australia

.

1934 – Qantas and Imperial Airways join forces and establish Qantas Empire Airways.
Granville railway disaster
.
2003 – The Canberra bushfires reach the city, killing four people and destroying in excess of 400 houses.

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January 19

1907 – A tropical cyclone hits Cooktown, Queensland, killing six.
1957 – The Argus newspaper appears for the last time.
1975 – 2JJ, the predecessor of youth radio Triple J, commences broadcasting in Sydney.
2004 – Cricketer David Hookes dies following an altercation outside the Beaconsfield Hotel in St Kilda.
News Ltd
reporter.

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January 20

1880 – Andrew George Scott, known as bushranger Captain Moonlite, was hanged in Sydney.
1942 – Charles Groves Wright Anderson wins a Victoria Cross at Muar River, Malaya.
1944 – 17 people are killed at Brooklyn, New South Wales when a mail train and a bus collide at a level crossing.
2003 – Death of John Halfpenny, aged 68, trade union leader.

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January 21

Isaac Isaacs, Governor-General of Australia

1887 – Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
Governor General of Australia
.
Mackay cyclone struck Mackay, Queensland
, causing serious damage and killing 30.

1931 – Isaac Isaacs becomes the first Australian born Governor-General of Australia
Tobruk
, Libya.
1966 – Richard Layton Butler, Premier of South Australia, dies.
1974 – Entertainer, Rove McManus is born.

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January 22

Sir Henry Parkes, often called the Father of Federation

1899 – Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
Australian Country Party
is formed at a meeting of farmers in Melbourne.
1931 – Frank Gavan Duffy is appointed as the fourth Chief Justice of Australia.
Australian 6th Division
.
1943 – HMAS Patricia Cam is sunk by Japanese aircraft near the Wessel Islands.

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January 23

1796 – The distilling of spirits is prohibited.
Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War
marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.

1948 – De Havilland Australia conducts the first flight of its three-engined DHA-3 Drover transport aircraft at Bankstown Airport.
1999 – Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

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January 24

Coolgardie
was completed.
1908 – The Eastern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club, now known as the Sydney Roosters, are formed at Paddington Town Hall.
Bien Hoa
.
Fremantle
.

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January 25

HMAS Tarakan in 1948

1886 – The first assembly of the Federal Council of Australia was held in Hobart.
1900 – State Labor politicians meet in Sydney to formally found the federal Labor party.
1950 – The landing ship HMAS Tarakan explodes at Garden Island in Sydney, killing eight.
1998 – American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan are left behind on their scuba dive near the Great Barrier Reef.

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January 26

A contemporary propaganda cartoon of Bligh's arrest

1788 – The First Fleet landed in Sydney Cove.
1808 – John Macarthur is arrested sparking the Rum Rebellion. Military officers supporting Macarthur arrest Governor Bligh.
1849 – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League was formed after public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania.
Indigenous Australian protestors hold the first Day of Mourning
.

Defence (Citizen Military Forces) Act (1943)

is passed which provided for the use of conscripts in the South-Western Pacific Zone (SWPZ) during the period of war.

HIFAR

goes critical for the first time, full power generation occurs for the first time in 1960.

1958 – Thousands of Greek men riot in Melbourne when the bridal ship Castel Felice is nine hours late
1959 – Darwin is granted city status.
1960 – The Australian of the Year awards are first granted.
Beaumont children
disappear, never to be found.
1971 – In the capital city of Australia four children and three young adults are killed in the 1971 Canberra flood.
1981 – The Australian Institute of Sport is opened.
Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney
.

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January 27

Cairns and Innisfail
in Queensland.

Maurice Vincent Buckley dies following a riding accident at Boolarra
in Gippsland.

6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna
.

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January 28

Middle Eastern Theatre of World War I
.
First Gulf War
.
Guantanamo Bay
, Cuba.

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January 29

1939 – Academic, writer, and broadcaster Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne.
1941 – Actress Maggie Kirkpatrick is born.
One-day International match against New Zealand at the SCG
.

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January 30

Old Parliament House

1893 – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893.
1924 – The first cabinet meeting is held in Canberra at Yarralumla House.
1995 – John Howard becomes federal Liberal leader and thus federal leader of the opposition after the resignation of Alexander Downer.

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January 31

1814 – The "holey dollar" and "dump" go into circulation.
1880 – The Bulletin magazine is first published.
1968 – Nauru declares independence from Australia.
Waterfall train disaster
.

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