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- 1697 – Willem de Vlamingh made the first documented European sighting of the land region which became the city of Perth.
- 1968 – John Gorton becomes the nineteenth Prime Minister of Australia.
- 1977 – The Easey Street murders, an unsolved crime in which two women were brutally stabbed to death in their home in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood.
- 1989 – Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home.
- 2006 – Six Australians die when a bus flips over in Egypt.