Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/October/October 18

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• 1790 - HMS Supply returns from Batavia with more supplies for the colony.
• 1854 - Billy Murdoch, regarded as the finest cricket batsman of his day, was born in Sandhurst Victoria.
• 1869 - The Lithgow Zig Zag Railway was opened.
• 1919 - Adrian Knox is appointed as the second Chief Justice of Australia.
• 1934 - Charles Prince of Morphettville is found guilty of fraud for the "ring in"[1] of Redlock at the Murray Bridge Racing Club on July 28.
• 1942 - Larry Pickering, political cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator, was born.
• 1980 - The federal election sees Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/National coalition government re-elected for a third consecutive term, albeit with an almost halved majority.