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October 23, 1823: Oxley departs Sydney to search north for a site for a new settlement
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October 22, 1872: The first overseas telegraph messages are received in Adelaide
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July 30, 1997: Alpine Way above Thredbo, NSW, collapses, causing a landslide that kills 18
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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 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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