Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/February/February 4

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• 1796 - Soldiers from the New South Wales Corps wreck a house belonging to settler John Baughan.
• 1813 - Major Thomas Davey succeeds David Collins as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.
• 1942 - In the Battle of Rabaul, 158 Australian POWs are massacred in the Tol Plantation massacre.
• 1964 - Cyclone Dora strikes north west Queensland.
• 2003 - Stephen John Sutton is arrested by the Argentine Police and held without charge for 2 1/2 years before being sentenced in 2005 to 11 years jail for drug trafficking.