Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/July/July 27
NSW Coat of Arms
1953
– Actor and film director,
Yahoo Serious
is born in the
Hunter Valley, New South Wales
.
1991
– German fraudster and head of the
National Safety Council of Australia
,
John Friedrich
suicides at his farm in
Sale, Victoria
.
1999
– The Swiss canyoning disaster takes place at
Saxetenbach Gorge
near
Interlaken
in Switzerland. Twenty-one tourists, fourteen of them Australian, are killed.
2005
– After 10 years in power
Bob Carr
resigns as
Premier of New South Wales
and is replaced by
Morris Iemma
on 3 August.