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On this day in Australia

• 1829 – Captain Charles Fremantle arrives off the coast of the present-day state of Western Australia, aboard HMS Challenger, with the intention of establishing the Swan River Colony.
• 1896 election in South Australia, women exercise their right to vote for the first time, having been given limited suffrage
  the previous year.
• Anzac Cove (painting pictured) on the Gallipoli peninsula in present-day Turkey
  .
• 1918 – In the Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, Australian and British troops counter-attack German forces near Amiens, France, with Clifford Sadlier later receiving the Victoria Cross for his actions.
• Australian states
  for the first time.
• Saigon, South Vietnam, is closed and staff evacuated prior to the Fall of Saigon
  .