- 1908 – William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley is appointed the fourth Governor General of Australia.
- 1946 – Trans Australia Airlines makes its first flight.
- 1969 – Politician Natasha Stott Despoja is born.
- 2004 – A terrorist attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta kills 10 Indonesians and injures 100.
- 2005 – John Wayne Glover, the Sydney North Shore Granny Murderer, is found dead in his prison cell.