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Barizol is an Australian editor currently living in Melbourne, Victoria.
Contributing to the English language Wikipedia since December 27, 2005.
On this day in Australia
- 1770 - Captain James Cook's ship HM Bark Endeavour strikes a reef within the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1835 - Australia's first political party, the Australian Patriotic Party, is founded.
- 1868 - Politician and unionist Harry Holland is born near Queanbeyan, New South Wales
- 1916 - A large majority approves a referendum in New South Wales deciding hotels should close at 6 o'clock for the duration of the war and six months thereafter; early closing came into force in NSW from 21 July lasting until 1955.
- 1933 - The Australian Women's Weekly magazine is launched by Robert Clyde Packer and his son Frank.
- 1960 - The Abel Tasman crashes at Mackay, Queensland, killing 29 persons, the largest air disaster in Australian history.
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