- 1900 – The SS Glenelg is wrecked off the Victorian coast, resulting in 31 deaths.
- 1935 – An unnamed cyclone strikes the northwest coast of Western Australia, killing 140 people.
- 1936 – Tasmania is connected to mainland Australia by telephone for the first time.
- 1995 – Bob Carr leads the Labor Party to victory in the New South Wales state election, deposing the Liberal/National coalition government of John Fahey.
- 1998 – Melbourne lawyer Max Green is found murdered in his Cambodian hotel room.