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Barizol is an Australian editor currently living in Melbourne, Victoria.
Contributing to the English language Wikipedia since December 27, 2005.
On this day in Australia
- 1813 – The first commercial shipment of wool sent to Britain by John and Elizabeth Macarthur.
- 1892 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey at Gallipoli born.
- 1904 – Street lights in Sydney are electrically lit.
- 1925 – Actress Ruth Cracknell born in Maitland, New South Wales.
- 1940 – The Story Bridge is opened in Brisbane
- 1942 – Elements of the Australian 9th Division arrive in El Alamein. The Division subsequently takes part in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein.
- 1945 – Frank Forde becomes the fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1951 – Actor Geoffrey Rush is born in Toowoomba, Queensland.
- 1964 – Kevin Conway was killed in action, the first Australian battle casualty in the Vietnam War.
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