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1889 - Louisa Lawson founded the Dawn Club, which became the hub of the women's suffrage movement in Sydney.
1892 - Frederick Deeming hanged at Melbourne Gaol having been unsuccessfully defended by the lawyer Alfred Deakin. Deeming was accused of committing a series of crimes on three continents — theft, perjury, fraud, bigamy and murder; he used at least 20 aliases.
1912 - Walter Burley Griffin's design for Canberra selected as the winner.
1944 - Birth of John Newcombe, Australian tennis player.
1994 - Police arrest Belanglo State Forest serial killer Ivan Milat at his New South Wales home. Milat is later sentenced to life imprisonment.