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1907 - The Harvester Judgment delivered by H. B. Higgins giving rise to the legal requirement for a basic wage, which dominated Australian economic life for the next 60 to 80 years.
1934 - A grasshopper plague devours 20 tons of grain in 2 hours in Mildura.
1935 - Charles Kingsford Smith MC, early Australian aviator, dies during a flight from Allahabad, India to Singapore, aged 38.
1938 - Australian rules football player Bob Skilton, one of only 4 players to have won the Brownlow Medal three times, is born.
1940 - SS City of Rayville hits a mine in Bass Strait and becomes the first American vessel sunk during World War II.
1946 - Guus Hiddink, football coach of Australia at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, is born in Varsseveld.
1976 - Brett Lee, cricket fast bowler, is born in Wollongong, New South Wales
1991 - Fremantle Prison is decommissioned.
2005 - Police claim to have averted a large scale terrorist attack after arresting 15 people in Melbourne and Sydney.(Sydney Morning Herald)