Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/September/September 30

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• 1804 - A government brewery was opened at Parramatta as a means of controlling the consumption of spirits.
• 1854 - The first game of cricket is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• 1889 - The Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory is officially opened.
• 1922 - Major General Alan Stretton AO CBE, former senior Australian Army officer and Australian of the Year was born.
• 1951 - Barry Marshall, FRS FAA, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was born in Kalgoorlie.
• 1959 - Death of Sir Henry Barwell, former Premier of South Australia.
• 1976 - Blue Hills, the long running ABC radio serial, comes to an end after 32 years.
• 1982 - The 1982 Commonwealth Games begin in Brisbane.
• 1990 - Death of Patrick White, author and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, after a long period of illness.