Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 27

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• 1914 - Eighteen people die in the shipwreck of the steamship Saint Paul at Cape Moreton, Queensland.
• 1939 - The first Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Wirraway training aircraft, takes to the air at Fishermans Bend, Victoria.
• 1986 - The Russell Street Bombing in Melbourne claims the life of the first female police officer killed in the line of duty.
• 1992 - Lang Hancock, West Australian iron ore magnate, dies.
• 1999 - The ALP government of Bob Carr is re-elected comfortably in New South Wales.