Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/June/June 10

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• 1770 - Captain James Cook's ship HM Bark Endeavour strikes a reef within the Great Barrier Reef.
• 1835 - Australia's first political party, the Australian Patriotic Party, is founded.
• 1868 - Politician and unionist Harry Holland is born near Queanbeyan, New South Wales
• 1916 - A large majority approves a referendum in New South Wales deciding hotels should close at 6 o'clock for the duration of the war and six months thereafter; early closing came into force in NSW from 21 July lasting until 1955.
• 1933 - The Australian Women's Weekly magazine is launched by Robert Clyde Packer and his son Frank.
• 1960 - The Abel Tasman crashes at Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 persons, the largest air disaster in Australian history.