Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/June/June 3

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Australian aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE (foreground) and the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41)

1929 - Fremantle, Western Australia is proclaimed a city.
1969 - HMAS Melbourne collides with USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea killing 74 seamen.
1991 - Paul Keating made his first leadership challenge for the Australian Labor Party. Bob Hawke won 66-44 and Keating resigned as Treasurer the same day.
1992 - Mabo v Queensland decided upon by High Court of Australia, making irrelevant the doctrine of terra nullius.

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