1814 Today saw Matthew Flinders' book, A Voyage to Terra Australis, finally in print where he named Australia... well, Australia.
1881 What eventually became Sydney's Prince Henry's Hospital started life as a sanitary camp at Little Bay for those suffering during a small pox epidemic.
1890 Crib Point was blessed by the Post Office Fairy Godmother when a post office was dropped off by the stork.
1910 Due to foggy weather obscuring the signals a Melbourne-bound train from Elsternwick ploughed into the back of a Melbourne-bound train from Brighton at Richmond Station.
Nine people died, 114 people were injured.
1914 Maurice Guillaux landed in Sydney - the first airmail delivery from Melbourne to Sydney was achieved.
1966 Playschool dipped its round window into the turbid airwaves of telly when it debuted on the ABC in Oz.
1984 The National Crime Authority was established.
2005 Amy Gillett, cyclist and rower, was killed in Germany in a road accident.
