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The bell from the SS Yongala, Townsville Maritime Museum .
- 1887 – 81 miners are killed during a coal gas explosion at Bulli, New South Wales.
- 1911 – The steamer SS Yongala sinks in a cyclone off the coast of Townsville, Queensland killing 122 people.
- 1922 – An act is passed in the Queensland parliament abolishing the Legislative Council of Queensland; Queensland is the only Australian state with a unicameral parliament.
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