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• 1944 - The heavy cruiser HMAS Australia, operating in the Philippines, is hit by a kamikaze aircraft, killing 20 and wounding 54, in what is believed to be the first attack of its kind.
• 1952 - Trevor Chappell, the youngest of the Chappell cricketing brothers, is born in Glenelg, South Australia.
• 1962 - David Campese, former rugby union wing, is born in Queanbeyan.
• 1978 - Civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
• 1986 - Death of Lionel Murphy, Attorney-General in the Government of Gough Whitlam, and a Justice of the High Court of Australia, aged 64.
• 2002 - Two people die in the Monash University shooting.