Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/September/September 11

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• 1795 - Floods devastate the farms at Hawkesbury.
• 1803 - John Bowen with a party of forty-eight found the first settlement in Van Diemen's Land near the Derwent River.
• 1914 - Australian troops land in German New Guinea.
• 1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first flight across the Tasman landing at the Wigram aerodrome.
• 1947 - The first radioisotopes exported from the United States arrive in Canberra.
• 2000 - The World Economic Forum is held in Melbourne. The S11 movement organises protests lasting 4 days.