Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 16
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- 1796 - Australia's first theatre opens in Sydney.
- 1962 - Frank Hurley the first official AIF photographer dies.
- 1998 - The first victim of the Melbourne gangland killings, Alphonse Gangitano is murdered in his Templestowe home.
- 2006 - Premier of Western Australia Geoff Gallop resigns, citing clinical depression as the reason.