Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/October/October 6

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• 1810 - A town plan of Sydney was published, on which the streets were given new and permanent names, including Market, George, Park and Barrack Streets.
• 1903 - The High Court of Australia opens in Melbourne.
• 1911 - Compulsory voting is introduced.
• 1920 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster is appointed the seventh Governor-General of Australia, his appointment the first in consultation with the Australian Government.
• 1930 - Richie Benaud OBE, one of the greatest leg-spinners to have played Test cricket, was born in Penrith, New South Wales.
• 1972 - A school teacher and her 6 pupils are kidnapped for AUD$1 million ransom in the Faraday School kidnapping.
• 1978 - Rock and roll singer Johnny O'Keefe dies.
• 1992 - Jeff Kennett becomes Premier of Victoria, after defeating Joan Kirner in the 1992 Victorian state election.
• 1992 - Death of Bill O'Reilly, cricketer, and well-respected cricket writer and broadcaster, in Sydney aged 87.