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May 1

• 1802 - Explorer Matthew Flinders becomes the first European to climb the You Yangs.
• 1821 - The Australian Magazine, Australia's first periodical, begins publication
• 1869 - A submarine telegraphic cable successfully establishes contact between Tasmania and Victoria.
• 1997 - HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne closes after a 147 year history.
• 1997 - Tasmania becomes the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality.

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May 2

• 1829 - The Swan River Colony is founded on the West Coast of Australia.
• 2005 - Douglas Wood taken hostage in Iraq. He was rescued on June 15.

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May 3

• 1820 - John Joseph Therry and Philip Conolly, the first Catholic priests officially appointed to Australia, arrive at Port Jackson.
• 1841 - New Zealand proclaimed a colony independent of New South Wales.
• 1970 - A new international terminal is opened at Kingsford Smith International Airport, Sydney.

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May 4

• 1826 - Bushranger Matthew Brady is hanged.
• 1912 - The play On Our Selection by Steele Rudd is first performed in Sydney.
• 1942 - The Battle of the Coral Sea begins.
• 1985 - A four-day cremation ceremony was held at Oyster Cove for Aboriginal remains retrieved from Tasmanian museums.

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May 5

• 1865 - Bushranger Ben Hall is ambushed and shot dead by police at Goobang Creek, New South Wales. He was 27.
• 1882 - Geologist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson was born.
• 1930 - Amy Johnson landed her De Havilland Gipsy Moth in Darwin, completing the first solo flight by a woman from England to Australia.
• 1947 - Camp Mountain train disaster in Queensland; 16 people were killed and 38 were injured.
• 1998 - A fire aboard the HMAS Westralia kills four people.

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May 6

• 1876 - Truganini, the last Tasmanian Aborigine in Tasmania, dies in Hobart.
• 1898 - The paddle steamer Maitland sinks near Broken Bay. 24 persons are drowned.
• 1917 - Dr Daniel Mannix becomes the 3rd Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne after the death of Archbishop Thomas Carr.
• 2005 - The scandal concerning the 2001 deportation of Vivian Solon first came to light.

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May 7

• 1824 - the Supreme Court of Tasmania, the first of all the State Supreme Courts, is established by Letters Patent.
• 1908 - The Coat of arms of Australia are granted.
• 1931 - The United Australia Party forms with Joseph Lyons as leader.

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May 8

• 1809 - Lachlan Macquarie is officially appointed Governor of New South Wales, caretaker William Patterson governs until his appointment begins on Jaunary 1, 1810.
• 1882 - Planning begins on the Working Men's College in Melbourne, the college later became RMIT University.
• 1948 - Margaret McIntyre becomes the first woman elected to the Parliament of Tasmania. She is killed in a plane crash later in the year.
• 1970 - 120,000 Australians marched at the first of three Vietnam Moratorium Days, protesting Australian participation in the Vietnam War,

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May 9

• 1900 - The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
• 1901 - The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.
• 1927 - The federal government moved to Canberra from Melbourne with the opening of the Provisional Parliament House.
• 1980 - Swimmer Grant Hackett is born.
• 1985 - Melbourne criminal Christopher Dale Flannery disappears without trace, presumed murdered.
• 1988 - New Parliament House is opened on Capital Hill by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1991 - Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is released.

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May 10

• 1824 - Opening of Supreme Court in Tasmania.
• 1972 - Homosexual Law Professor George Duncan "drowns" in the Torrens River, Adelaide.
• 1996 - Prime Minister John Howard announces gun controls in the wake of the Port Arthur massacre.
• 1996 - Floods in southern Queensland & northern New South Wales kill 5 people & causes more than AUD$55 million in farm losses

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May 11

• 1938 - Two jockeys are killed in a racing incident at Morphettville Racecourse.
• 1982 - The High Court upholds the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 in Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen.
• 1989 - Rosemary Follett became the first Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory and the first female leader of any Australian state or territory.

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May 12

• 1865 - Bushranger John Gilbert shot dead near Binalong, New South Wales.
• 1997 - Susie Maroney become the first person to swim the Florida Straits from Cuba to the United States.
• 2003 - Governor General Peter Hollingworth stands down following accusations that he had attempted to cover up several instances of sexual abuse in the early 1990's during his tenure as Archbishop of Brisbane.

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May 13

• 1787 - The First Fleet, which is to establish a European colony in New South Wales, sets sail from Portsmouth.
• 1870 - Port Adelaide Football Club is founded in South Australia
• 1932 - Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the Governor, Sir Philip Game
• 2002 - Actress Ruth Cracknell dies aged 76.

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May 14

• 1798 - The HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society.
• 1829 - Aboriginal mission on Bruny Island opened by George Augustus Robinson.
• 1943 - Hospital ship AHS Centaur is sunk by Japanese torpedoes off the coast of Stradbroke Island during World War II, 64 of the 332 armed services personnel on board survived.
• 1969 - Actress Cate Blanchett is born.
• 1984 - The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
• 2004 - Hobart woman Mary Donaldson marries Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark in Copenhagen to become Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark.

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May 15

• 1982 - In the middle of the Franklin Dam dispute, the Labor government of Harry Holgate is voted out in Tasmania and replaced by the Liberal Party, led by Robin Gray.
• 1989 - Bond University, the first private university in Australia, opens.
• 2004 - Tasmanian Mary Donaldson marries Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.

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May 16

• 1954 - World champion boxer Jimmy Carruthers retires, undefeated.
• 1956 - The first post-war British nuclear tests begin in Australia, with Operation Mosaic at Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia.
• 1983 - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps aside in response to allegations rasied by ABC TV program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistry.

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May 17

• 1824 - the Supreme Court of New South Wales is created by Letters Patent.
• 1928 - The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia makes its first official flight from Cloncurry to Julia Creek.
• 1996 - Bob Bellear is appointed to the District Court of New South Wales, becoming the first Indigenous Australian judge.

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May 18

• 1914 - Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar is appointed the sixth Governor General of Australia.
• 1974 - John Howard enters Parliament as an Opposition backbencher for the electorate of Bennelong.

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May 19

• 1942 - The prototype CAC Boomerang, an Australian designed and built fighter aircraft, takes to the air for the first time.
• 1948 - Federal government announced that Australian rail gauges would be standardised by 1951.
• 1950 - Cabinet agrees to send forces to aid the British during the Malayan Emergency.
• 1991 - Historian Manning Clark dies.
• 2002 - 19th Prime Minister of Australia, John Gorton, dies aged 90 .

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May 20

• 1941 - The Battle of Crete, involving the Australian 6th Division, begins.
• 1997 - A Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report calls for an apology for an early government policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents and placing them in institutions.

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May 21

• 1912 - The steamship SS Koombana sinks off Port Hedland during a cyclone killing the 126 passengers.
• 1972 - Hungarian born Australian Lazlo Toth attacked Michelangelo's Pietà with a hammer.
• 1975 - Rugby league footballer and boxer Anthony Mundine is born.
• 1999 - Eight decaying bodies are found in barrels in a disused bank vault north of Adelaide, marking the beginning of the Snowtown murders case.

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May 22

• 1856 - First Parliament of New South Wales opened by the governor, Sir William Denison.
• 1901 - The foundation stone for St John's Cathedral, Brisbane was laid by the Duke of Cornwall and York, the church celebrated 100 years of construction in 2006, and is only gothic-style stone building under construction anywhere in the world.
• 1998 - Murray Gleeson is appointed as the eleventh Chief Justice of Australia.

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May 23

• 1889 - Louisa Lawson founded the Dawn Club, which became the hub of the women's suffrage movement in Sydney.
• 1892 - Frederick Deeming hanged at Melbourne Gaol having been unsuccessfully defended by the lawyer Alfred Deakin. Deeming was accused of committing a series of crimes on three continents — theft, perjury, fraud, bigamy and murder; he used at least 20 aliases.
• 1912 - Walter Burley Griffin's design for Canberra selected as the winner.
• 1944 - Birth of John Newcombe, Australian tennis player.
• 1994 - Police arrest Belanglo State Forest serial killer Ivan Milat at his New South Wales home. Milat is later sentenced to life imprisonment.

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May 24

• 1805 - William Bligh is appointed the fourth Governor of New South Wales, he arrives at Port Jackson to replace King on August 6, 1806.
• 1905 - Empire Day is first celebrated in Australia.
• 1917 - Australian boxer Les Darcy dies in the United States.
• 1960 - The Parliament of Victoria authorised Totalizator Agency Boards with the intention to stamp out starting price (SP) betting.
• 1969 - Keith Payne is the last Australian soldier awarded a Victoria Cross for bravery during the Vietnam War.
• 2006 - Author Geraldine Brooks wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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May 25

• 1870 - Bushranger Captain Thunderbolt is shot and killed near Uralla by Constable Alexander Walker during a highway robbery.
• 1930 - Amy Johnson arrives in Darwin, completing the first solo flight by a woman from England to Australia.
• 1991 - The state election in New South Wales produces a hung Parliament. Nick Greiner manages to form a minority government with the support of four Independent MPs.
• 2005 - Entertainer and Gold Logie winner, Graham Kennedy dies.

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May 26

• 1944 - The acting prime minister, Frank Forde announced Australia's intention of embarking on an active postwar immigration policy.
• 1971 - Qantas subject to an extortion hoax.
• 1998 - The first National Sorry Day protest held.
• 2005 - National Sorry Day renamed National Day of Healing

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May 27

• 1801 - The French cartographic expedition of Nicolas Baudin sighted Cape Leeuwin.
• 1967 - Australia holds a referendum approving two amendments to the Australian constitution relating to Indigenous Australians.
• 2005 - Schapelle Corby convicted of drug smuggling by an Indonesian court & sentenced to 20 years in gaol, later reduced to 15 & then reverted to 20 years.

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May 28

• 1851 - The arrival of two convict ships, the Lady Kenneway with 249 male prisoners and Blackfriars with 260 female prisoners, further turns Tasmanian sentiment against transportation.
• 1968 - Singer and actress, Kylie Minogue is born.

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May 29

• 1788 - Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutter's Bay.
• 1904 - Cyclist and politician Hubert Opperman is born in the town of Rochester, Victoria.
• 1956 - Frank Beaurepaire, swimming world record holder, businessman, and former Lord Mayor of Melbourne, dies aged 65.
• 1975 - The Family Court of Australia is established.
• 2003 - A hijack attempt on Qantas Flight 1737 between Melbourne and Launceston is thwarted by a flight attendant and passengers.

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May 30

• 1911 - The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory is established.
• 1923 - Australia, New Zealand the the United Kingdom sign an agreement to share the administration of former German colony Nauru.
• 1925 - Millicent Preston-Stanley becomes the first woman member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• 1928 - Pro Hart born in Broken Hill, New South Wales.
• 1988 - Expo '88 begins in Brisbane, 18 million visits are made in the six months it it open.
• 1989 - Ananda Marga member Tim Anderson is arrested on charges related to the 1978 Hilton bombing.
• 1991 - A television report reveals that Bob Hawke made a secret agreement to hand over the ALP leadership to Paul Keating in 1988.

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May 31

• 1813 - Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson, and William Wentworth arrive at Mount Blaxland and having successfully crossed the Blue Mountains for the first time head back to Sydney.
• 1886 - The SS Ly-Ee-Moon sinks off Green Cape, New South Wales, with the loss of 71 persons.
• 1942 - During the Attack on Sydney Harbour, a Japanese midget submarine sinks the converted Sydney ferry, HMAS Kuttabul, killing 21.

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