Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/September

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September 1

• 1906 – Papua New Guinea is made an Australian protectorate.
• 1912 – The Golden Wattle is declared as Australia's national flower but only declared as Australia's official floral emblem in 1988.
• 1925 – Thomas Blamey becomes Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria.
• 1934 – The Pyjama Girl is discovered in Albury, New South Wales.
• 1951 – The ANZUS Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States is signed in San Francisco.

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September 2

• 1904 – The first Australian Open golf tournament is held.
• 1918 – Death of John Forrest, an Australian explorer, the first premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament.
• 1928 – St Mary's Cathedral opens in Sydney after 60 years of construction.
• 1948 – Australian National Airways (ANA) DC3 VH-ANK Lutana crashes near Quirindi, New South Wales, killing 13.
• 1984 – Seven people shot dead and twelve wounded in bikie shootout between rival bikie gangs the Bandidos and Comancheros in the Sydney suburb of Milperra.
• 1987 – The Australia Telescope Compact Array is opened.

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September 3

Australian flag

• 1899 – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, biologist and Nobel Prize winner was born in Traralgon, Victoria.
• 1901 – the Flag of Australia and Australian Red Ensign are adopted by the Government of Australia as official flags, following a national design competition. The flag first flown from the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.
• 1926 – The Canberra Times is first published.
• 1939 – Australia follows Britain and declares war on Germany.
• 1940 – The heavy cruiser HMAS Australia takes part in Operation Menace off Dakar.
• 1988 – Federal referendums on four-year parliamentary terms, recognition of local government and other issues are defeated.
• 1996 – Australian National Flag Day was proclaimed to commemorate the first flying of the Australian flag.

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September 4

• 1897 – Essendon wins the first VFL/AFL premiership.
• 1914 - William Henry Strahan published "The Bugle Call"
• 1924 – The Commonwealth Citrus Research Station (subsumed in 1927 into the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)) opened at Griffith, New South Wales in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area (which is fed by the Murrumbidgee River).
• 1992 – Lynn Arnold becomes Premier of South Australia after the resignation of John Bannon following the near-collapse of the State Bank.
• 2005 – Robert Farquharson murders his three children by driving them into a farm dam near Winchelsea, Victoria.
• 2006 – Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, dies after being stung by a stingray.

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September 5

John Howard

• 1984 – Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment for ordinary crimes (i.e., murder). New South Wales maintained it as a punishment for treason and piracy with violence until 1985.
• 1985 – John Howard replaces Andrew Peacock as federal Liberal leader and thus federal Leader of the Opposition.
• 1994 – Politician John Newman is murdered outside his Cabramatta home.

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September 6

• 1905 – Last sighting of the Clipper ship Loch Vennachar which sinks off Kangaroo Island, killing 32. Only one body was found.
• 1942 – Death of Edward Johnston, Western Australian politician.
• 1976 – Nauru and Australia agreed to reinstate the avenue of appeal to the High Court of Australia with the Nauru (High Court Appeals) Act 1976.
• 1990 – Royal Australian Navy commenced contributions to Operation Damask in the 1991 Gulf War

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September 7

• 1790 – Governor Phillip is speared in the shoulder while speaking with a group of Indigenous Australians, due to a misunderstanding.
• 1795 – The HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney carrying the new Governor John Hunter, the Aboriginal Bennelong, and the explorers Matthew Flinders and George Bass.
• 1917 – Birth of John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1936 – Tasmania's last remaining Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) dies in Hobart Zoo.
• 1994 – Death of James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924).
• 1996 – National Threatened Species Day was first held; the date was chosen in memory of the last Thylacine.

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September 8

• 1855 – Queen Victoria signs an Order-in-Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.
• 1944 – Birth of cricketer Terry Jenner.
• 1954 – Australia becomes a founding member of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
• 2006 – Motor racing champion Peter Brock dies in a race in Perth.

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September 9

William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley

• 1908 – William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley is appointed the fourth Governor General of Australia.
• 1946 – Trans Australia Airlines makes its first flight.
• 1969 – Politician Natasha Stott Despoja is born.
• 2004 – A terrorist attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta kills 10 Indonesians and injures 100.
• 2005 – John Wayne Glover, the Sydney North Shore Granny Murderer, is found dead in his prison cell.

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September 10

• 1919 – Publisher and journalist J. F. Archibald dies.
• 1996 – Pauline Hanson makes her first speech to the House of Representatives.
• 2003 – Bali bomber Imam Samudra is sentenced to death in Indonesia.
• 2005 – The Asian Football Confederation ratifies Football Federation Australia's bid to transfer from the Oceania Football Confederation.

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September 11

• 1795 – Floods devastate the farms at Hawkesbury.
• 1803 – John Bowen with a party of forty-eight found the first settlement in Van Diemen's Land near the Derwent River.
• 1914 – Australian troops land in German New Guinea.
• 1928 – Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first flight across the Tasman landing at the Wigram aerodrome.
• 1947 – The first radioisotopes exported from the United States arrive in Canberra.
• 2000 – The World Economic Forum is held in Melbourne. The S11 movement organises protests lasting four days.

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September 12

• 1844 – The Royal Society of Tasmania was formed, it was the first branch of the Society established outside Britain.
• 1854 – Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria Charles Hotham opens Flinders Street Station, the first city railway station in Australia.
• 1918 – George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia, dies.
• 2005 – England wins The Ashes back from Australia for the first time since 1987.

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September 13

• 1828 – Robbers break into the vault of the Bank of Australasia in Sydney – first bank robbery in Australia.
• 1914 – Rabaul is occupied.
• 1969 – Cricketer Shane Warne is born.
• 2001 – Ansett airlines collapses.

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September 14

• 1796 – Governor Hunter complains to the Colonial Secretary of Macarthur's behaviour.
• 1914 – The Australian submarine AE1 is lost with all 35 men while patrolling New Britain.
• 1931 – Painter of some of Australias most iconic images, Tom Roberts dies.
• 1957 – The British nuclear tests at Maralinga enter their second phase as Operation Antler begins, these are the last British tests on mainland Australia.

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September 15

Gold medalist Nancy Johnson (centre) of the U.S., raises her hands with silver medalist Cho-Hyun Kang (left), of Korea, and bronze winner Jing Gao (right), of China, during the first medal ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games (16 September 2000).

• 1793 – Captain William Paterson leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful.
• 1870 – Work begins on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line linking Port Augusta to Darwin.
• 1879 – Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia, born in Stanley, Tasmania.
• 2000 – The Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.

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September 16

• 1804 – The first brewery in Australia begins to produce beer.
• 1921 – The Mount Mulligan mine disaster kills 76 miners.
• 1956 – Australian television begins.
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
• 1988 – Convictions against Lindy and Michael Chamberlain are quashed.

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September 17

Andrew Fisher

• 1877 – The Port Arthur penal colony was closed.
• 1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for a third non-consecutive term.
• 1950 – The first Australian forces land in Korea, during the War. Australian casualties numbered more than 1,500, of whom 339 were killed.
• 1962 – Film director Baz Luhrmann was born.

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September 18

• 1876 – Birth of James Scullin, ninth Prime Minister of Australia, in Trawalla, Victoria
• 1979 – Dr David Tonkin elected Premier of South Australia.
• 1981 – Dale Buggins Australian motorcycle Stuntman died in Melbourne.
• 1999 – In a shock result, Steve Bracks and the Labor Party form a minority government with three rural independents to oust the ruling Liberal/National coalition government of Jeff Kennett in Victoria.

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September 19

• 1797 – John Shortland is the first European to enter the port of Newcastle.
• 1954 – Australian author Miles Franklin dies.
• 1981 – The ALP government of Neville Wran is re-elected in New South Wales.
• 1992 – The Queensland Labor Government of Wayne Goss re-elected for second term.
• 2003 – Australian singer Slim Dusty dies.
• 2003 – Construction of Alice Springs to Darwin rail link is completed.
• 2005 – The Latham Diaries is published by former Labor leader Mark Latham.

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September 20

• 1830 – The Port Arthur penal settlement was established.
• 1975 – Thirteen miners are killed in an underground coal mine explosion at the Kianga Mine at Moura, Queensland.
• 1999 – Australian troops commanded by Peter Cosgrove arrive in East Timor as a part of INTERFET peackeeping operations.

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September 21

• 1965 – Australian actor David Wenham is born in Marrickville, New South Wales.
• 1973 – The Jackson Pollock painting Blue Poles is controversially purchased by the Whitlam government for A$1.3 million.
• 1971 – The 4th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment is involved in Australia's last major action of the Vietnam War at Nui Dat.
• 2000 – French athlete Marie-José Pérec flees the Olympic village without competing in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

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September 22

• 1885 – Ben Chifley, politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Bathurst, New South Wales.
• 1918 – First direct radio message between London and Sydney.
• 1948 – Denis Burke, former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, was born in Queensland.
• 1957 – Nick Cave, Australian rock musician and songwriter, was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria.
• 1978 – Harry Kewell, Australian football (soccer) player, was born in Smithfield, Sydney.

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September 23

• 1846 – Explorer John Ainsworth Horrocks died at Penwortham in South Australia after he was accidentally shot in a hunting accident.
• 1856 – The town of Perth, Western Australia is proclaimed a City by letters patent from Queen Victoria.
• 1942 – General Thomas Blamey was appointed Commander in Chief of Allied land forces in New Guinea, he came into conflict with General Douglas MacArthur.
• 1993 – The IOC selects Sydney to be the site of the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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September 24

• 1898 – Howard Florey OM, FRS, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 is born in Adelaide.
• 1899 – Sir William Dobell, artist (sculptor and painter) was born in Cooks Hill, Newcastle, New South Wales.
• 1903 – Alfred Deakin become the second Prime Minister of Australia, following the resignation of Edmund Barton.

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September 25

Billy Hughes

• 1793 – Australia's first church is opened in Sydney.
• 1862 – Billy Hughes, the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, was born in London.
• 1998 – Explosion at the Esso natural gas plant at Longford in Gippsland.

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September 26

• 1983 – Australia II wins the America's Cup ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.

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September 27

• 1932 – Maude Bonney becomes first woman to fly around Australia.
• 1949 – Graham Richardson, former Labor politician and "numbers man" in New South Wales was born in Sydney.
• 1956 – The British nuclear tests at Maralinga begin with Operation Buffalo.
• 1975 – Jack Lang, Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales, died in Auburn, aged 98.

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September 28

John Oxley, explorer

• 1800 – Phillip Gidley King becomes third Governor of New South Wales.
• 1824 – John Oxley recommends a new settlement be founded at Brisbane after finding Moreton Bay unsuitable.
• 1962 – Paddington tram depot fire destroys 65 trams in Brisbane.
• 1969 – A meteorite fell over the Murchison region of Western Australia, 100 kg of rock was recovered.

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September 29

• 1791 – The West Coast of Australia is claimed by British Commander George Vancouver, previously only the east coast had been claimed for the Crown.
• 1951 – Maureen Caird, former track athlete who won a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, was born in Cumberland, New South Wales.
• 2007 – The Geelong Football Club wins the 2007 AFL Grand Final, their first premiership in 44 years.

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September 30

Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway

• 1804 – A government brewery was opened at Parramatta as a means of controlling the consumption of spirits.
• 1854 – The first game of cricket is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• 1889 – The Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory is officially opened.
• 1922 – Major General Alan Stretton, former senior Australian Army officer and Australian of the Year was born.
• 1951 – Barry Marshall, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was born in Kalgoorlie.
• 1959 – Death of Sir Henry Barwell, former Premier of South Australia.
• 1976 – Blue Hills, the long running ABC radio serial, comes to an end after 32 years.
• 1982 – The 1982 Commonwealth Games begin in Brisbane.
• 1990 – Death of Patrick White, author and winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, after a long period of illness.

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