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• 1797 - The HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney from the Cape of Good Hope, carrying stores ordered by Governor Hunter and merino sheep imported by John Macarthur.
• 1916 - William Jackson awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in a raid near near Armentières, France.
• 1918 - SS Wimmera struck a mine off Gabo Island laid by the German raider Wolf and sank.
• 1949 - A seven week coal strike involving 23,000 miners began.
• 1950 - 28 die in Australia's worst aviation disaster when an ANA Skymaster crahes near York, Western Australia.
• 1988 - The Australian Recording Industry Association compiles the first ARIA Charts.
• 1998 - The Marree Man geoglyph appears in the desert near Marree, South Australia.
• 2006 - The World's first successful triple organ transplant is performed in Australia.