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1792: The German Princess after whom the City of Adelaide in Australia was Named

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1792: The German Princess after whom the City of Adelaide in Australia was Named

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German princess after whom the city of Adelaide in South Australia is nam ...

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German princess after whom the city of Adelaide in South Australia is named, was born on this day in 1792. Adelaide is today a city with over one million inhabitants an ...

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1773: The Largest Australian Cities – Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Named after the British Aristocrats

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1773: The Largest Australian Cities – Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Named after the British Aristocrats

On this day, in 1773, Sir Thomas Brisbane, the British general who played a role in Australian history, w ...

On this day, in 1773, Sir Thomas Brisbane, the British general who played a role in Australian history, was born. Namely, Sir Thomas Brisbane was Governor of the British colony of New South Wales fro ...

July 23, 2019
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1971: William L. Bragg: The Youngest Nobel Laureate in the Field of Science

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1971: William L. Bragg: The Youngest Nobel Laureate in the Field of Science

On this day in 1971, William Lawrence Bragg, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in the field of science, die ...

On this day in 1971, William Lawrence Bragg, the youngest Nobel Prize winner in the field of science, died. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics when he was only 25 years old, making him by far t ...

July 01, 2019
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1787: First Ships Bearing Convicts Set Sail towards Australia

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1787: First Ships Bearing Convicts Set Sail towards Australia

More than 1000 people set sail from England towards Australia. Upon arrival, they established the city of ...

More than 1000 people set sail from England towards Australia. Upon arrival, they established the city of Sydney. The first ships bearing convicts set sail from England for Australia on this day in 17 ...

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1978: Australian Pilot Disappears in UFO Encounter

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1978: Australian Pilot Disappears in UFO Encounter

20-year old Australian pilot Frederick Valentich inexplicably disappeared on this day in 1978, while pilo ...

20-year old Australian pilot Frederick Valentich inexplicably disappeared on this day in 1978, while piloting his Cessna 182L aircraft. Valentich took off from a Melbourne airfield and was headed towa ...

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1872: Largest Gold Nugget in History

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1872: Largest Gold Nugget in History

The so-called Holtermann Nugget was found on this day in 1872. It contained 99.8 kilograms of gold. It wa ...

The so-called Holtermann Nugget was found on this day in 1872. It contained 99.8 kilograms of gold. It was discovered in Australia, in the “Beyers & Holtermann Star of Hope” mine, located in the t ...

October 19, 2018
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1952: UK Tests its First Nuclear Bomb on Australian Soil

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1952: UK Tests its First Nuclear Bomb on Australian Soil

On this day, the UK made its first nuclear weapons test in its history. In this way it became the third n ...

On this day, the UK made its first nuclear weapons test in its history. In this way it became the third nuclear power in the world, since the only other countries to possess such weapons were the USA ...

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1931: Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire – Fox, The Sun, The Times

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1931: Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire – Fox, The Sun, The Times

Rupert Murdoch, one of the world's greatest media magnates, was born on this day in 1931 in Melbourne, Au ...

Rupert Murdoch, one of the world's greatest media magnates, was born on this day in 1931 in Melbourne, Australia. His father was the Australian journalist Sir Keith Murdoch, from whom Rupert inherited ...

March 11, 2016
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