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• 1813 - The first commercial shipment of wool sent to Britain by John and Elizabeth Macarthur.
• 1892 - John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey at Gallipoli born.
• 1904 - Street lights in Sydney are electrically lit.
• 1925 - Actress Ruth Cracknell born in Maitland, New South Wales.
• 1940 - The Story Bridge is opened in Brisbane
• 1942 - Elements of the Australian 9th Division arrive in El Alamein. The Division subsequently takes part in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein.
• 1945 - Frank Forde becomes the fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1951 - Actor Geoffrey Rush is born in Toowoomba, Queensland.
• 1964 - Kevin Conway was killed in action, the first Australian battle casualty in the Vietnam War.