Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/February/February 3

1821 - Sir Thomas Brisbane is commissioned as Governor to succeed Macquarie, he replaces Maquarie on December 1 of the same year.
1954 - Queen Elizabeth arrives in Australia with Prince Philip on a royal tour.
1967 - Ronald Ryan is hanged at Melbourne's Pentridge Gaol, becoming the last person to be legally executed in Australia.
1983 - Bob Hawke becomes leader of the Australian Labor Party.
2004 - The Ghan arrives in Darwin, completing the first passenger rail journey from Adelaide to Darwin.
2005 - Cornelia Rau is revealed to have been unlawfully detained for ten months in immigration detention.