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• 1858 - The Melbourne Football Club, Australia's oldest football club is founded.
• 1892 - Sir Arthur Coles, businessman and philanthropist is born.
• 1946 - The Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) is established.
• 1975 - David Hicks, a prisoner of the United States Government at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was born in Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1990 - John Cain resigns as Victorian Premier over a series of financial scandals and is replaced by the first female premier of Victoria, Joan Kirner.
• 1994 - The Tasty nightclub raid in Melbourne sees 463 patrons strip searched during police raids.