Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/April/April 22

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Pearl luggers at Roebuck Bay, Broome in about 1912
  • 1887 - A cyclone hits a pearling fleet off Ninety Mile Beach, 120 men drown.
  • 1983 - Soviet embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.