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April 1

• 1876 - A letter is published in the Melbourne Argus by Captain John Mason of Belfast, Victoria concerning the Warrnambool Mahogany Ship.
• 1905 - Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia, is born in Fremantle, Western Australia
• 1938 - New monthly newspaper Abo Call begins publication in Sydney, focusing on issues of Aboriginal rights and edited by activist Jack Patten.
• 1955 - The Far East Strategic Reserve (FESR) begins in response to communist aggression in South East Asia following World War II.

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April 2

• 1787 - Charter of Justice signed providing the authority for the establishment of the first New South Wales Courts of Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction.
• 1844 - The first permanent synagogue in Australia opens in Sydney.
• 1845 - Ludwig Leichhardt discovers and names the Burdekin River.
• 1856 - South Australia introduces the secret ballot.
• 1905 - The Tasmanian General Post Office opens in Hobart, Tasmania.
• 1930 - Isaac Isaacs appointed as the third Chief Justice of Australia.
• 2005 - A Royal Australian Navy Westland Sea King helicopter (Shark 02) crashes on the Indonesian island of Nias while providing humanitarian support.

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April 3

• 1848 - Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs.
• 1954 - Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet diplomat, defects to Australia, sparking the Petrov Affair.
• 1969 - Actor Ben Mendelsohn is born.
• 1982 - After almost 27 years in power, the Liberal/National coalition government is voted out in Victoria and replaced by the ALP.

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April 4

• 1845 The cutter Americana is wrecked in the Torres Strait, the sole survivor, Barbara Thompson, lives with the local indigenous people until 1849.
• 1923 - The Country Women's Association holds its first annual conference.
• 1929 - A dam on the Cascade River collapses, the subsequent torrent kills 14.
• 1978 - Cyclone Alby kills 5 people in Western Australia.

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April 5

• 1932 - Racehorse Phar Lap is found dead.
• 1933 - Anthropologist and protector of Aborigines Walter Edmund Roth dies.
• 2004 - Australia's biggest supplier to the farming community of the potential explosive ammonium nitrate decides to pull the product from its stores in response to concerns it could be used by terrorists.

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April 6

• 1844 - John Gavin is the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. He was executed for murder at the age of fifteen.
• 1895 - Waltzing Matilda is first performed at the North Gregory Hotel, Winton, Queensland.
• 1942 - The 41st Infantry Division arrives in Australia, during World War II one million Americans were stationed in Australia.
• 1991 - Death of cricketer Bill Ponsford, who twice broke the world record for the highest first-class score, aged 90.

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April 7

• 1815 - Bathurst, New South Wales is founded following its discovery by George Evans.
• 1841 - Edward John Eyre becomes the first European to cross the Nullarbor Plain, arrives in Western Australia.
• 1851 - Edward Hargraves proclaims the discovery of gold at Ophir, New South Wales. A court later decides that Hargraves companions William Tom and John Lister found the gold.
• 1896 - Teddy Flack wins the Men's 1500 metres at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
• 1939 - Sir Earle Page becomes the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1967 - Peter John Badcoe died in the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, conspicuous gallantry and leadership on more than one occasion.

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April 8

• 1802 - Matthew Flinders met the French explorer Nicolas Baudin at Encounter Bay.
• 1817 - Australias first bank, the Bank of New South Wales is established.
• 1867 - Arthur Streeton, artist and a member of the famous Heidelberg School of Australian artists, is born in Mount Duneed, southwest of Geelong
• 1930 - Brisbane City Hall is officially opened
• 1933 - Referendum produces 2 to 1 vote in favour of Western Australia's secession from the Commonwealth.

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April 9

• 1865 - Bushranger Dan Morgan is shot and killed at Peechalba Station in Victoria.
• 1896 - Teddy Flack wins the Men's 800 metres at the 1896 Summer Olympics.
• 1909 - Dancer, actor, director and choreographer Robert Helpmann is born in Mount Gambier.

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April 10

• 1851 - The NSW Association for Preventing the Renewal of Transportation sends a petition to Queen Victoria.
• 1941 - The Siege of Tobruk begins, for most of the siege, Tobruk was defended by the Australian 9th Division under General Sir Leslie Morshead.

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April 11

• 1921 - Bert Hinkler flies from Sydney to Bundaberg non-stop, breaking his own long-distance flying record.
• 1934 - Charles Ulm successfully delivers the first airmail from Australia to New Zealand.
• 2001 - Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying game, an international record.

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April 12

• 1835 - The convict transport George III sinks in D’Entrecasteaux Channel, 139 male convicts drown.
• 1851 - Between 7 and 12 April, 4 ounces of gold were won at what would become the township of Ophir, New South Wales - the first payable gold to be won in New South Wales and in Australia.
• 1924 - HMAS Australia is scuttled off Sydney Heads.
• 1961 - Actor and comedian, Magda Szubanski is born.

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April 13

• 1829 - Melbourne's first post office opens.
• 1841 - The first photograph was taken in Australia by a visiting naval captain, Captain Augustin Lucas.
• 1855 - The University of Melbourne was established by act of the Parliament of Victoria.
• 1892 - Singer Gladys Moncrieff is born in Bundaberg, Queensland.
• 1982 - Sir Ninian Stephen appointed Governor General.
• 1991 - Schoolgirl Karmein Chan is abducted from her Melbourne home and later found murdered.

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April 14

• 1858 - Francis Thomas Gregory leads an exploration in the Murchison-Gascoyne-Lyons region of Western Australia.
• 1870 - Gold is discovered in Gulgong, New South Wales, sparking a major gold rush in the area.
• 1885 - Orbost, Victoria was proclaimed a town.
• 1986 - The second trial of former Attorney-General of Australia and High Court judge Lionel Murphy begins in Sydney; accused of attempting to pervert justice, he was eventually acquitted.

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April 15

• 1903 - Electric trams begin operating in Bendigo.
• 1944 - Fred Paterson is elected to the Parliament of Queensland, representing the seat of Bowen. He remains the only member of the Communist Party of Australia to ever be elected to an Australian Parliament
• 1981 - Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock resigns from cabinet accusing the Prime Minister of gross disloyalty.
• 1991 - The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody hands down its findings.
• 1999 - A massive hailstorm hits Sydney, with most of the damage being centred on the Eastern Suburbs.

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April 16

• 1868 - A raliway to Dalby, Queensland is completed.
• 1880 - School is made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in New South Wales.
• 1924 - John Gunn and Phillip Collier become Premiers of South and Western Australia respecitively following Labor victories in two state elections.
• 2003 - A 4 day chase of the ocean freighter Pong Su by Australian Army Special Operations Forces begins near Lorne, Victoria.

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April 17

• 1866 - The Tariff Bill passes though the Parliament of Victoria; Australia's first protective tariffs become law the following day.
• 2003 - The Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre is closed.
• 2005 - The Bali Nine are captured in Indonesia.

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April 18

• 1831 - The Sydney daily newspaper and Australia's oldest newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald is first published.
• 1952 - Owen Dixon is appointed as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.

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April 19

• 1818 - Phillip Parker King discovers Port Essington, it becomes the site of one of several failed attempts to establish a settlement in the Northern Territory.
• 1984 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.

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April 20

• 1770 - Captain Cook's Endeavour voyage first sights the continent of Australia.
• 1836 - John Batman and his family arrive at Port Phillip and settle on Batman Hill.
• 1908 - 44 are killed and 400 injured in the Sunshine train disaster.
• 1937 - The first regular airmail service between Australia and the United States begins operation.
• 1954 - Evdokia Petrova seeks political asylum after the plane carrying her back to the Soviet Union lands at Darwin and her escorts were disarmed by Commonwealth police.

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April 21

• 1830 - The New South Wales Bushranging Act allows arrest of persons on suspicion of bushranging.
• 1883 - George Ernest Morrison arrives in Melbourne after walking for 123 days from Normanton on the Gulf of Carpentaria.
• 1976 - Great Bookie Robbery - A gang of six men steal an undetermined sum (between $6 and $12 million) from the Victoria Club in Queen Street, Melbourne.
• 1995 - Gerard Brennan is appointed as the tenth Chief Justice of Australia.

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April 22

• 1887 - A cyclone hits a pearling fleet off Eighty Mile Beach, 120 men drown.
• 1983 - Soviet embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.

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April 23

• 1900 - The first contingents of Imperial Bushmen leave for the Second Boer War.
• 1788 - A settlement is established at Parramatta, west of Sydney.
• 2005 - Death of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland from 1968 - 1987, aged 94.

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April 24

• 1899 - The 1,280 ton barque Loch Sloy hits rocks off Kangaroo Island and sinks, killing 31 persons.
• 1912 - The NSW government grants 43 acres of land for the construction of a zoological garden, later known as Taronga Park.
• 2006 - Jimmy Sharman jnr, boxing troupe impresario died.

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April 25

• 1809 - The first post office in Sydney established.
• 1896 - Australian women vote for the first time; in the South Australia parliamentary election.
• 1915 - ANZAC forces land at Gallipoli in Turkey during the Great War.
• 1918 - Australians recapture Villers-Bretonneux from the German army helping to stop Operation Georgette.
• 1975 - The Australian Embassy in South Vietnam is closed and staff evacuated prior to the Fall of Saigon.

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April 26

• 1890 - Banjo Patterson's The Man from Snowy River is published.
• 1933 - The seaplane carrier, HMAS Albatross, is paid off into reserve.
• 1939 - Robert Menzies becomes the twelfth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1966 - Harold Holt becomes the seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1985 - Boxer Jeff Fenech wins the World Bantamweight title defeating Satoshi Shingaki of Japan.

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April 27

• 1896 - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation, dies at his home in Annandale, Sydney.
• 1904 - Chris Watson becomes the third Prime Minister of Australia, and the first Labor Prime Minister.
• 1950 - The Communist Party Dissolution Bill is introduced in parliament.
• 1964 - Garfield Barwick is appointed as the seventh Chief Justice of Australia.

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April 28

• 1656 - Vergulde Draeck, a Dutch merchant ship bound for Batavia (now Jakarta), was wrecked off Ledge Point, 107 km north of Perth, Western Australia.

• 1923 - Construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge commenced.
• 1985 - The Nuclear Disarmament Party splits.
• 1996 - 35 persons are murdered in the Port Arthur massacre.
• 2003 - All Pan Pharmaceuticals products are recalled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration after a number of safety problems were found at its manufacturing plant, in what was one of Australia's biggest ever recalls.

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April 29

• 1798 - There is a mutiny abord HMS Bounty, William Bligh and crew members loyal to him are cast adrift.
• 1909 - The Commonwealth Liberal Party is formed.
• 1910 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a second time.
• 1954 - The Soviet embassy in Canberra closed as a result of the Petrov Affair.
• 1988 - Queen Elizabeth II opens the Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach, Queensland.

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April 30

• 1915 - Australian submarine AE2 is sunk in the Sea of Marmara.
• 1988 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane, Queensland. The exhibition runs for 6 months.
• 2003 - Stockbroker Rene Rivkin is found guilty of insider trading and sentenced to 9 months weekend detention plus $30,000 in fines.

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