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1861 - The first Melbourne Cup run. Won by Archer. (List of Melbourne Cup winners).
1920 - Member of the House of Representatives Hugh Mahon was expelled from Parliament for his ‘seditious and disloyal utterances’. Mahon’s is the only expulsion to have occurred from the Parliament.
1926 - Opera singer Joan Sutherland OM, AC, DBE is born in Sydney.
1940 - Bass Strait was closed to shipping following the sinking of British steamer Cambridge by a mine.
1976 - Tennis player Mark Philippoussis is born in Melbourne.