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- 1826 – Major Edmund Lockyer arrive at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of the continent, establishing a settlement near Albany.
- 1872 – Cosmetics industrialist Helena Rubinstein is born in Krakau, Austria-Hungary (now Poland).
- 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer, and one of the finest early spin bowlers, was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
- 1975 – Fifteen people are killed in an arson attack at the Savoy Hotel in Kings Cross, New South Wales.
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