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Cradle Mountain
  • 1793 - The first school in the colony opens in an unfinished church building in Sydney.
  • 1946 - The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Norman Gilroy, becomes Cardinal Gilroy, the first Australian born member of the College of Cardinals.
  • 1958 - 200,000 people assemble to meet the Queen Mother in Brisbane.
  • 2001 - Four people are killed when a landslide forces a bus into a ravine at Cradle Mountain.
  • 2006 - Six teenagers are killed and another is injured in a hit and run accident in Cardross, near Mildura.
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