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September 7, 1876: C J Dennis, Australian journalist, poet and author of ‘The Sentimental Bloke’, is born
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September 6, 1997: The first Saturday edition of the Australian Financial Review is published
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September 5, 1880: The first Salvation Army meeting in Australia is held in Adelaide
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September 4, 2006: Australian icon Steve Irwin is killed by a stingray
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September 3, 1901: The Australian flag is flown for the first time
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August 2, 1997: Stuart Diver is pulled alive from the rubble of the collapsed Thredbo resorts
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August 1, 1872: WIA founder George Taylor a little-known pioneer in Australian aviation is born
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July 31, 1865: Queensland’s first railway line opens
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July 30, 1997: Alpine Way above Thredbo, NSW, collapses, causing a landslide that kills 18
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July 29, 1917: Accident of stockman Jim Darcy leads to the founding of the Flying Doctor Service
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July 24, 1862: John McDouall Stuart and his men stand on the northern coast of Australia
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July 23, 1773: Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, the man after whom Brisbane is named, is born
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July 22, 1900: Frederick Lane becomes the first Australian swimmer to win Gold at the modern Olympics
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July 21, 1858: Adelaide and Melbourne are linked by the first intercolonial electric telegraph line
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July 20, 1851: Gold discoveries at Mt Alexander spark the Victorian gold rush
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July 17, 1918: Czar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife, children and several servants are executed
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July 16, 1914: Australia’s first interstate air mail departs Melbourne
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