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• 1851 - Gold is first discovered in Ballarat, Victoria, leading to the Victorian gold rush.
• 1861 - Edith Cowan, the first Australian woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament, was born near Geraldton, Western Australia.
• 1989 - The Australian cricket team captained by Allan Border wins the Ashes in England, for the first time since 1934.
• 1991 - The Palm Grove Hostel fire kills 12 people in Dungog, New South Wales.
• 1997 - Stuart Diver, a ski instructor, is rescued as the sole survivor of the Thredbo Landslide.