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Cradle Mountain
- 1793 – The first school in the colony opens in an unfinished church building in Sydney.
- 1946 – The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Norman Thomas Gilroy, becomes Cardinal Gilroy, the first Australian-born member of the College of Cardinals.
- 1958 – Two hundred thousand people assemble to meet the Queen Mother in Brisbane.
- 2001 – Four people are killed when a landslide forces a bus into a ravine at Cradle Mountain.
- 2006 – Six teenagers are killed and another is injured in a hit and run accident in Cardross, near Mildura.
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