Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/February/February 17

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• 1788 - Lord Howe Island was discovered HMS Supply.
• 1882 - The first cricket Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground begins.
• 2002 - Allegations are aired that Governor-General of Australia Peter Hollingworth, as Archbishop of Brisbane, had in the early 1990's attempted to cover up several instances of sexual abuse.
• 2003 - Hundreds of thousands of protestors join millions more in other cities around the world in protesting the Iraq War. These are the biggest street protests seen since the Vietnam War.