Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/August/August 8
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- 1895 - The steamship SS Catterthun strikes Seal Rocks, New South Wales, and founders, killing 55 persons.
- 1914 - Enlistment for World War I begins.
- 1918 - Australian forces contribute to one of the greatest advances in World War I at the Battle of Amiens.
- 1973 - Landscape designer Edna Walling died.