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Post by Barney » December 25, 2021, 9:22 am

ON THIS DAY – 25th December

1798 – George Bass climbed Mount Wellington.

1826 – Major Edmund Lockyer arrived at individual George Sound to establish a settlement near Albany.

1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer, and one of the finest early spin bowlers, was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Clarence Victor "Clarrie" Grimmett (25 December 1891 – 2 May 1980) was a cricketer; although born in New Zealand, he played most of his cricket in Australia. In 1914 he moved to Australia were he played club cricket in Sydney for three years. In his first match in senior cricket he took 12 wickets for 65 runs. After marrying a Victorian, he moved to Melbourne, where he played first-class cricket for Victoria. He moved to South Australia in 1923, but it is for his performances in Test cricket for the Australian cricket team that he is best remembered. His first-class records holds a total of 1,424 wickets in 248 matches between 1911 and 1941, again at a rate close to six wickets per match. This total included 5 wicket bags on over 120 occasions and – in one performance for a touring Australian side against Yorkshire in 1930, he took 10 wickets for 37 runs off 22.3 overs, one of only a very small number of players to have claimed all of the wickets in an innings. He took 513 wickets in his 79 Sheffield Shield matches. Grimmett died in Adelaide in 1980, but was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members. On 30 September 2009, Clarrie Grimmett was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

1975 – Fifteen persons were killed in an arson attack at the Savoy Hotel in Kings Cross, New South Wales.

1989 – A savage storm ripped through Brisbane and Redcliffe, leaving a $5 million trail of destruction. Two people were killed, around 1,000 homes were damaged and about 4,500 homes suffered loss of electric power.

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Major Edmund Lockyer 1784-1860, in the uniform of the Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps c1854-60 (Mitchell Library SLNSW) – Top
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

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ON THIS DAY – 26th December

1902 – Brisbane was declared a city.

1902 – Ada Evans became the first female law graduate in Australia.

1906 – The national premiere of ‘The Story of the Kelly Gang’, generally regarded as the world's first feature length film, took place at the Athenaeum Hall in Melbourne.

1945 – The first Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race began. The British yacht Rani wins both line honours and the handicap, arriving in Hobart on 3 January.

1947 – Heard Island and McDonald Islands in Antarctica were transferred from British control to Australian territories.

1980 – Police offered a $250,000 reward for information relating to the recent Woolworths bombings. The reward was the largest ever offered in Australian history.

1998 – Astronaut Andy Thomas became the first Australian to walk in space.

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Unnamed woman - possibly Ada Evans or Louisa MacDonald? (Law Society of NSW) – Top Left
The poster for the film "The Story of the Kelly Gang" [Australia, 1906] (Wiki) – Top Right
Yachts Clearing the Heads of Port Jackson on Boxing Day 1945. The West Australian (Newspaper) 29 December 1945 (Trove) – Bottom Left
Astronaut: Andy Thomas [Australian b1951] (NASA) – Bottom Right
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Earnest » December 26, 2021, 4:56 pm

Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
December 23, 2021, 9:53 pm
A sandwich is not a sandwich without the crust. Otherwise it is a wimpwich.

Brute.

Oaf, even. :shock:

Did they really send an Australian into space? What for, to see if the Corks on his hat would float?
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » December 26, 2021, 5:00 pm

Earnest wrote:
December 26, 2021, 4:56 pm
Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
December 23, 2021, 9:53 pm
A sandwich is not a sandwich without the crust. Otherwise it is a wimpwich.

Brute.

Oaf, even. :shock:
That may be ...... but he makes a very good point. 👍

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Earnest » December 26, 2021, 5:02 pm

I'm putting him in a headlock the next time I run into him.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » December 26, 2021, 5:05 pm

Another UM keyboard warrior!

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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by Earnest » December 26, 2021, 5:08 pm

Tell me about it, Uncle T has become very aggressive over the years I've known him, who'd have thought it, readers.

Anyway, back to Aussie astronauts.
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Re: A little ray of sunshine from Australia

Post by jackspratt » December 26, 2021, 8:37 pm

Given you have spent a disproportionate share of your life behind the Chesterfield, I can understand your concern.

But I did enjoy reading up about the Woolworths bombing and extortion - particularly the skin-diving villain getting nabbed by the rozzers as he popped up from under the water to pick up the loot. I suspect if you did an Ancestry.com search on him, there would be a direct link back to the 1st Fleet.

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Post by Barney » December 27, 2021, 6:39 am

ON THIS DAY – 27th December

1803 – Convict William Buckley escaped from Sullivan Bay. He lived with the Wautharong Aboriginal people for 32 years. The Australian saying "Buckley's chance" means to have a very slim chance, and was spawned by his amazing story of survival in the bush.

1943 – Australian forces captured Shaggy Ridge, New Guinea after a four-month battle against the Japanese.

1974 – The Perth Entertainment Centre opened. It has a capacity of 8,200 seats.

1987 – Rupert Murdoch's ownership of ADS-7, combined with TVW-7's ownership of SAS-10, resulted in the stations deciding to swap call signs & affiliations. So, on this day, ADS-7 becomes ADS-10 & SAS-10 becomes SAS-7.

1990 – WIN Television purchased Star Television just three days before Queensland was due to be aggregated, giving them the Nine Network affiliation and leaving QTV, who were going to take the Nine affiliation, with the Network Ten affiliation.

1996 – Lone French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli was rescued in treacherous conditions 2,200 kilometres south of the Western Australian coast after his sloop Algimouss was dismasted and its rigging swept overboard on Christmas night.

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Buckley's Escape [Tommy McRae] (Wiki) – Top
Troops of the 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion, watch aircraft bombarding The Pimple prior to their attack on Japanese positions there, 27 December 1943 (AWM) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 28th December

1799 – The gaol in Parramatta was lost to arson.

1836 – Proclamation of South Australia as a British Province. Formal proclamation was read out in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North by Captain (later Rear Admiral, Governor, Sir) John Hindmarsh.

1847 – Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrived from England.

1850 – Henry Parkes established the 'Empire' newspaper, later giving rise to his prominent political career.

1916 – Floods in Clermont, Queensland claimed more than 60 lives.

1932 – Test wicket-keeper Jack Blackham died. John McCarthy Blackham (11 May 1854 – 28 December 1932) was a Test cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. A specialist wicket-keeper, Blackham played in the first Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March 1877 and the famous Ashes Test match of 1882. Such was his skill in the position that he revolutionised the art of wicket-keeping and was known as the "prince of wicket-keepers". Late in his career, he captained the Australian team.

1938 – ‘The Sydney Mail’ newspaper ceased publication.

1989 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Newcastle, New South Wales, killing 13 people.

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The Proclamation of South Australia, 1836; Charles Hill 1856 (Wiki) – Top Left
Henry Parkes, from the book Eminent citizens [of] New South Wales, 1850-1900 (Mitchell Library SLNSW) – Top Right
Australian cricketer Jack Blackham [1854 – 1932], circa 1885 (Wiki) – Bottom Right
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ON THIS DAY – 29th December

1696 – Flemish captain Willem de Vlamingh arrived at, and named Rottnest Island

1835 – Mary Gilbert gave birth to her son, James Port Phillip Gilbert, the first European child born in the Port Phillip settlement of Melbourne.

1860 – Sailors from the Victorian Colonial warship, Victoria, took part in the action at Matarikoriko, New Zealand.

1928 – The Jazz Singer became the first sound film screened in Australia. It premiered at the Lyceum Theatre in Sydney.

1928 – Don Bradman scored his first international test century at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in the third test, Australia versus England, of the 1928-29 Ashes series.

1988 – The Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closed.

1996 – The 80-foot maxi Morning Glory broke the race record winning the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 2 days 14 hours 7 minutes 10 seconds.

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Portrait of Willem de Vlamingh, Johannes en Nicholaas Verkolje [1640 – c. 1698] (Wiki) – Top Left
Poster for the movie The Jazz Singer (1927), featuring stars Eugenie Besserer and Al Jolson, Warner Bros (Wiki) – Top Right
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ON THIS DAY – 30th December

1873 – Elizabeth Woolcock became the first and only woman to be executed in South Australia. She had been found guilty of murdering her husband, Thomas, by mercury poisoning, in Moonta.

1882 – The first Test of the 1882–83 Ashes tour began at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

1913 – Author Sybil Elyne Keith Mitchell (Elyne Mitchell) OAM was born. Elyne Mitchell was an Australian author noted for the Silver Brumby series of children's novels. Her nonfiction works draw on family history and culture.

1951 – The Australian Davis Cup Team of Mervyn Rose, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, defeated the United States to retain the trophy.

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Thomas Woolcock, Elizabeth Lillian Woolcock and son Tom (SLSA) – Top Left
Elyne Mitchell with husband Tom. Photo courtesy Mitchell family (National Museum Australia) – Top Right
1951 - M. Rose, I. Ayre, H. Hopman, K. McGregor, F. Sedgman [Sydney NSW] (Tennis History) – Bottom
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ON THIS DAY – 31st December

1790 – Twenty-five bushels of barley were successfully harvested, going a long way towards alleviating food shortages.

1921 – Walter Burley Griffin was removed as director of construction for Canberra after disagreements over his supervisory role.

1935 – The cane toad was introduced to Queensland.

1964 – Donald Campbell set a new water speed record of 276 miles per hour at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia.

1968 – MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashed south of Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.

1973 – AC/DC performed their first major gig in Sydney Australia.

1981 – New South Wales abolished death duties.

1982 – The Australian Women's Weekly was first published as a monthly magazine.

1989 – Phase 2 of Aggregation of Television services occurred in Orange & Wagga Wagga, with aggregation occurring in Wollongong & Canberra in March.

1990 – The Queensland regional television market was aggregated, with Sunshine Television Network (now Seven Queensland) taking a Seven affiliation, WIN Television taking a Nine affiliation, and QTV with the Ten affiliation.

1991 – The Northern New South Wales television market was aggregated, with Prime Television taking a Seven Network affiliation, NBN taking a Nine Network affiliation & NRTV (now Southern Cross Ten) taking a Network Ten affiliation.

2005 – Sections of the Trans-Australian Railway near Nurina on the Nullarbor Plain were washed away by flooding, halting passenger and freight services for up to five days.

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Walter Burley Griffin in 1912 (SLNSW) – Top Left
The world land and water speed-record breaker Donald Campbell. The photo shows Campbell in his racing overalls alongside Bluebird CN7. It's likely, although unconfirmed, that it was taken at the promotional event at Goodwood racetrack in 1960 (Wiki) – Top Right
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Post by jackspratt » December 31, 2021, 9:11 am

Thanks Barney.

Hopefully there will be plenty more sunshine bursting through during the course of 2022.

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jackspratt wrote:Thanks Barney.

Hopefully there will be plenty more sunshine bursting through during the course of 2022.
No worries
I’m sure there’s sunshine just around every corner. Well I suppose that’s in the thinking of all the half glass full amongst us.


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Long list today

ON THIS DAY – 1st January

1810 – Lachlan Macquarie sworn in as governor of New South Wales.

1834 – The Western Australian Police Force was formed.

1838 – First official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide.

1838 – John Pascoe Fawkner founded The Melbourne Advertiser, the Port Phillip district's first newspaper.

1844 – Australia's first ringing peal rang from the bells of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.

1856 – The name Tasmania officially adopted to replace Van Diemen's Land which was felt to have too many convict connotations.

1863 – The Torrens title system is introduced in New South Wales with the commencement of the Real Property Act 1862.

1864 – The All-England Eleven cricket team defeats the Victorian XXII at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

1864 – The Queensland Police Force is established and begins operations with approximately 143 employees.

1882 – Bilateral conventions for the exchange of money orders come into effect between the United States of America and the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.

1887 – Clement Wragge is appointed Government Meteorologist for Queensland.

1890 – The University of Tasmania opens.

1892 – Physical Culture (Physie) started in Australia.

1899 – The Police Regulation Act 1898 is enacted in Tasmania, unifying several small regional police forces to form the Tasmanian Police Force.

1901 – The Commonwealth of Australia was formed when the British (Imperial) Parliament Act, the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, comes into effect.

1901 – The Constitution of Australia comes into force, as the federation of Australia is complete. John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, is appointed as the first Governor-General, and Edmund Barton as the first Prime Minister.

1908 – The Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology formally commences operation.

1911 – South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government.

1911 – The Northern Territory was politically separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. The city of Palmerston is renamed Darwin in honour of Charles Darwin.

1911 – Compulsory military training comes into effect in Australia.

1915 – Six people were shot and killed and another seven wounded in an attack at a picnic near Broken Hill, New South Wales.

1918 – The Australian Corps was formed from the five AIF divisions on the Western Front.

1924 – The Australian Automobile Association was formed to lobby for federal road finance and a national traffic code.

1939 – Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.

1947 – A massive hailstorm struck Sydney, causing hundreds of injuries and an estimated £1 million damage.

1974 – Queen Elizabeth II created five new knights in New South Wales and two in Queensland in her New Year Honours List. The Chief Justice of New South Wales, Mr Justice Kerr, is made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. Broadcaster John Laws is appointed an OBE.

1974 – Evonne Goolagong defeated Chris Evert to win the Australian women's singles title at Kooyong.

1978 – The Festival of Sydney began.

1978 – A jail warder, Victor Sullivan was struck on the head by a prisoner at Parramatta Jail.

1985 – Australia commenced a two-year term as a member of the United Nations Security Council.

1989 – HECS was introduced with the commencement of the Higher Education Funding Act 1988.

1990 – The VFL was renamed as the AFL (Australian Football League).

1992 – The Victorian television market was aggregated, with VIC TV (now WIN Television) becoming the Nine Network affiliate, Prime Television taking a Seven Network affiliation & Southern Cross Network (now Southern Cross Ten) taking the Network Ten affiliation.

2000 – Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic released Care Australia worker Branko Jeken from imprisonment in Serbia.

2000 – The Seven Network introduced a new logo to celebrate the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first one not to have the 7 inside a circle.

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The Cataract Mill Road to Punt, Launceston. [pencil] c. 1853 John W. Hardwick. (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) – Bottom Right
David Thompson Seymour, Queensland's first Police Commissioner. (Queensland State Archives) – Bottom Left
Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia by HRH. The Duke of Cornwall and York (later HM individual George V), May 9, 1901, by Tom Roberts. (National Museum of Australia) – Top
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Historically 1 January would seem to be a busy day in Australia. Things happen.
Lock 'em up - Eastman, Giuliani, Senator Graham, Meadows and Trump

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ON THIS DAY – 2nd January

1798 – George Bass sighted Wilsons Promontory.

1822 – A penal settlement was established at Macquarie Harbour on the remote west coast of Van Diemen's Land.

1837 – The Supreme Court of South Australia was established by Letters Patent, five days after the founding of the colony.

1913 – Australian philately proper began in early 1913 with the Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".

1961 – Oral contraceptives are first sold in Australia.

1969 – Australian Rupert Murdoch gained control of the 'News of the World'.

1974 – Steelworkers at the Broken Hill Proprietary Co Ltd were awarded big pay rises which added $28 million to its annual wage bill immediately and $38 million by the next December.

1974 – Mary, the 16-year-old gorilla which had her right leg amputated at Taronga Zoo on 11 December 1973, died.

1974 – An Ansett Airlines Fokker Friendship made an emergency landing at Tullamarine airport after a wheel fell from the undercarriage as the aircraft lifted off the runway.

1986 – A state funeral was held for former Governor of Victoria Sir Henry Winneke at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.

1988 – Imparja started broadcasting to remote Central Australia via satellite It was officially launched on 15 January.

1991 – Warship HMAS Westralia (O 195) left for the Persian Gulf.

1994 – Major bushfires devastated coastal New South Wales—four people were killed and over 300 homes were lost.

2000 – A massive oil spill occurred off the coast of Phillip Island, endangering the region's penguin population.

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South-West View of Macquarie Harbour Van Diemen's Land, ca. 1832. (Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW) – Top
HMAS Westralia replenishing the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina in 2001 (Wiki) – Bottom Right
Phillip Island Nature Parks (Visit Melbourne) – Bottom Left
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ON THIS DAY – 3rd January

1827 – The first boat regatta held on the Derwent River.

1839 – John Hutt became Governor of Western Australia.

1840 – The Melbourne newspaper ‘The Herald ‘was founded by George Cavenagh as ‘The Port Phillip Herald’.

1870 – A state flag of Western Australia was adopted.

1886 – Leg break and googly bowler Arthur Mailey was born in Sydney.

1900 – Electric lighting was installed on Adelaide streets.

1907 – A young Charles Kingsford-Smith became the first person to be rescued using a new Australian invention, the surf lifesaving reel.

1929 – Don Bradman made 112 for Australia v England in the third Test match at Melbourne, his first Test Century.

1942 – American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command formed.

1970 – Police in Liverpool, Sydney conducted a high speed car chase after Wally Mellish, a central figure in the July 1968 Glenfield siege.

1974 – French President Pompidou reaffirmed that France would continue to hold nuclear tests in the South Pacific. This drew an angry response from Australian unionists and the New Zealand Government.

1974 – In Victoria Street, Sydney, a 30-man team of workmen used sledgehammers and axes to batter down the doors of 19 houses occupied by squatters who had barricaded themselves in, protesting against the proposed development.

1978 – Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen announced that he will ask churches throughout Queensland to hold a day of prayer for rain, suggesting a date of 15 January.

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John Hutt becomes Governor of Western Australia 1939-1844 (Government House Western Australia) – Top Left
The First Group Photo of the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life-Saving Club Members, 24 March 1907. The new surf reel is proudly displayed. (Bondi Surf Club) – Bottom
A young Charles and sister Elsie, ca. 1900. Charles Edward Kingsford Smith (1897-1935), was born on 9 February 1897 in Brisbane, the fifth son and seventh child in his family. (Australian Geographic) – Top Right
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ON THIS DAY – 4th January

1688 – English Sea Explorer William Dampier landed on Australian soil.

1810 – Governor Lachlan Macquarie undertook strong action to restore order following the deposition of Governor Bligh in the 'Rum Rebellion'. Macquarie dismissed all who had been appointed to positions of authority since Bligh had been deposed, and he cancelled all trials, lands grants and bequests given to members of the New South Wales Corps. This was the first of many reforms initiated by Governor Macquarie in an attempt to restore order to the colony.

1854 – Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
1932 – Bradman scored 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG.

1968 – The search for the body of Prime Minister Harold Holt, who disappeared whilst swimming near Portsea, Victoria, was called off.

1970 – The Victorian Government appointed William Kaye, QC to investigate allegations that some senior police officers took bribes from abortionists.

1970 – 1,000 New South Wales state powerhouse operators went on strike.

1971 – American children's educational TV series Sesame Street premieres on ABC.

1979 – Australia's highest daily rainfall, 1,140 mm, was recorded at Bellenden Ker station, Queensland.

1986 – A tanker driver was killed instantly when his truck overturns in Aspen, New South Wales, releasing clouds of nitrogen gas.

1988 – A prison riot at Fremantle prison caused AUD$1.8 million damage.

1991 – In Melbourne, 35,000 marched in the "Save Australia" rally. The protest's main arguments were for increased employment, reduced government debt and less union control.

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Portrait of William Dampier c. 1697/98 Thomas Murray. (Wikimedia Commons) – Top Left
Governor Lachlan Macquarie. ( Encyclopaedia Britannica) – Bottom Left
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