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John Bowen

• 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.