Which was just as well as newspapers at the time claimed the whole colony was the scene of
1847 The good ship Rattlesnake slithered into port at Sydney to float about doing a scientific survey and some charting bizzo; but the more important thang was that self-taught anatomist and biologist Thomas Huxley met his future wife Henrietta Heathorn. Party!
1888 Railway line betwixt Palmerston (Darwin) and Adelaide River began. Party!
1900 Australian Mounted Troops struck the North East to reach the railway lines behind the Boers in Pretoria.
1900 Aussie journo George Morrison was injured while rescuing a defender during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
George was better known for having walked all over Australia due to his itchy feet.
In 1910 John Duigan had nothing better to do so he built an aeroplane and flew it on this day on his parents property in Victoria.
1900 Aussie journo George Morrison was injured while rescuing a defender during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion.
George was better known for having walked all over Australia due to his itchy feet.
In 1910 John Duigan had nothing better to do so he built an aeroplane and flew it on this day on his parents property in Victoria.
1914 Maurice Guillaux left the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds in Flemington to fly to Sydney in a Blériot monoplane in the first delivery of airmail. He arrived in Sydney on 18 July after nine and a half hours of flying time.
1943 Australian troops advanced from Wau, New Guinea, toward Salamaua.
1956 HSV-7 in Melbourne began channelling the spirit world for test transmissions of the idiot box in monochrome (TCN-9 in Sydney had jumped the gun 3 days earlier).
1962 Public funding of private schools became an issue following a strike by parents and the community who closed Catholic schools in Goulburn, New South Wales on this day, resulting in government funding for private schools.
1986 An explosion at Moura No. 4 mine in Moura, Queensland killed 12 people.
