Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 7

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• 1799 - Bass and Flinders complete their circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land.
• 1867 - Riots at the Crocodile Creek goldfield destroy the property of Chinese miners.
• 1931 - Guy Menzies completes the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney to the West Coast of New Zealand.
• 1965 - The first hydrofoil ferry begins operation in Sydney.