Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 13

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• 1851 - Charles Augustus FitzRoy commissioned as "Governor-General of all Her Majesty's Australian possessions". This position was a forerunner of the Governor-General of Australia.
• 1939 - Victoria experiences the Black Friday bushfires.
• 1939 - Melbourne records its hottest temperature of 45.6 degrees Celsius.
• 1995 - Poet, critic, publisher and bookseller Max Harris, founder of the literary journal Angry Penguins, dies aged 73.
• 2004 - The Spirit of Tasmania III makes its inaugural trip from Sydney to Devonport. It ceased in 2006.