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"Amiens, the key to the west" by Arthur Streeton, 1918.
- 1895 – The steamship SS Catterthun strikes Seal Rocks, New South Wales, and founders, killing 55 persons.
- 1914 – Enlistment for World War I begins.
- 1918 – Australian forces contribute to one of the greatest advances in World War I at the Battle of Amiens.
- 1973 – Landscape designer Edna Walling died.
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