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• 1915 - Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
• 1942 - The HMAS Canberra is sunk in the Battle of Savo Island.
• 1962 - The Federal Government bans the drug, thalidomide.
• 1968 - Actor Eric Bana is born.
• 1987 - Julian Knight commits the Hoddle Street massacre in Melbourne, claiming seven lives and injuring nineteen others.
• 1990 - Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Premier after John Cain II retires from Parliament.
• 2004 - Richard Butler, the controversial governor of Tasmania, resigns.