Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/July/July 11

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• 1916 - Gough Whitlam, later Prime Minister of Australia, was born.
• 1974 - Sir John Kerr sworn in as Governor-General of Australia.
• 1979 - American space station Skylab crashes in Western Australia
• 1987 - Bob Hawke-led Australian Labor Party returned to power after a Double Dissolution federal election.
• 1990 - Sarah MacDiarmid, age 23, disappears and likely murdered at Kananook railway station, Melbourne. The crime remains unsolved.