Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/April/April 20

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• 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.