Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 8

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• 1810 - The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen’s Land, begins publication.
• 1878 - The telephone is used for the first time in Australia in Melbourne.
• 1885 - John Curtin, 14th Prime Minister of Australia is born in Creswick in central Victoria.
• 1904 - Death of art collector and philanthropist Alfred Felton and the establishment of the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery of Victoria.