Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 10

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• 1697 - Willem de Vlamingh made the first documented European sighting of the land region which is became the city of Perth.
• 1968 - John Gorton becomes the nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1977 - The Easey Street murders, an unsolved crime in which two women were brutally stabbed to death in their home in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.
• 1989 - Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home.
• 2006 - Six Australians die when a bus flips over in Egypt.