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8 July Australian History

1861 Railway carriages were rocketing up the Great Divide with the opening of the line from Sunbury to Woodend (Vic) 1866 Ballarat & Dis...

  • On This Day in Oz History 7 July
    1841 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reached Albany . on an expedition that saw the murder of John Baxter, Eyre's assistant/co-explorer. ...
  • When Bribie Island lost its cemetery. 1936
     To lose a cemetery is rather careless, but how one goes about losing it in the first place is so easy - just don't use it! Source; The ...
  • 2nd July Australian history
      1915 The inaugural Violet Day Appeal began, a local remembrance day for the fallen of WW1 in South Australia, started by Alexandrine Seage...