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Banjo Patterson
- 1817 – Lachlan Macquarie recommends the adoption of the name Australia for the continent instead of New Holland.
- 1889 – The poem "Clancy of the Overflow", by Banjo Paterson, is first published in The Bulletin magazine.
- 1921 – The Gun Alley Murder: 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke is raped and murdered in Gun Alley, Melbourne. 28-year-old Colin Ross was hanged for the crime, but in 1992 was proved innocent (unsolved).
- 1938 – A direct radio-telephone link is established between Canberra and Washington, D.C..
- 1977 – World Series Cricket is launched by Kerry Packer.
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