Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 20

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• 1880 - Earle Page, the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia is born.
• 1915 - Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.
• 1917 - The second plebiscite on the issue of military conscription was held; it was defeated.
• 1928 - Hubert Wilkins makes the first flight over Antarctica in his Lockheed Vega San Francisco.
• 1991 - Paul Keating becomes the twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia.