User:Danlibbo
On this day in Australia
- 1865 – Bushranger Ben Hall is ambushed and shot dead by police near Goobang Creek, New South Wales.
- 1882 – Geologist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson is born in Shipley, England.
- 1906 – The first electric trams begin operations in Melbourne, with the opening of a service from St Kilda to Brighton.
- 1947 – Sixteen people are killed and 38 injured when a crowded picnic train derails (wreckage pictured) near Camp Mountain, Queensland.
- 1998 – Four Royal Australian Navy sailors die from carbon monoxide poisoning after a fire aboard HMAS Westralia.
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Where I live and have lived:[edit]
Sydney, Canberra, London, Melbourne and frequenting the Riverina.
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