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The Tasmanian Tiger photographed at Hobart zoo in 1933

• 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.