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• 1800 - Reverends Richard Johnson and Samuel Marsden open a church school at Ryde.
• 1819 - Merchant Anthony Hordern born in London.
• 1914 - Maurice Guillaux leaves Melbourne to fly to Sydney in a Bleriot monoplane in the first delivery of airmail. He arrived in Sydney on 18 July after nine and a half hours of flying time.
• 1962 - Public funding of private schools becomes an issue following a strike by parents and the community who closed Catholic schools in Goulburn, New South Wales.
• 1986 - An explosion at Moura No. 4 mine in Moura, Queensland kills 12 people.