Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/September/September 7

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• 1790 - Governor Phillip is speared in the shoulder while speaking with a group of Indigenous Australians, due to a misunderstanding.
• 1795 - The HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney carrying the new Governor John Hunter, the Aboriginal Bennelong, and the explorers Matthew Flinders and George Bass.
• 1917 - Birth of John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1936 - Tasmania's last remaining Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) dies in Hobart Zoo.
• 1994 - Death of James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924).
• 1996 - National Threatened Species Day was first held; the date was chosen in memory of the last Thylacine.