Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 16
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
- 1796 – Australia's first theatre opens in Sydney.
- 1962 – Frank Hurley, the first official Australian Imperial Force photographer, dies.
- 1998 – The first victim of the Melbourne gangland killings, Alphonse Gangitano is murdered in his Templestowe home.
- 2006 – Premier of Western Australia Geoff Gallop resigns, citing clinical depression as the reason.
