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Keith Miller: "Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not."
- 1852 – The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.
- 1930 – Collingwood Football Club won the premiership (football competition) for the fourth consecutive year.
- 1935 – John Latham is appointed as the fifth Chief Justice of Australia.
- 1997 – The Liberal/National coalition government of John Olsen is re-elected in South Australia for another term, albeit with a substantially reduced minority.
- 2004 – Keith Miller, Test cricketer and World War II pilot died in Melbourne aged 84.
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