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 * 1940 – Three members of the Australian Cabinet, Air Minister James Fairbairn, Information Minister Sir Henry Gullett and Army Minister Brigadier Geoffrey Street, were killed, along with the Chief of the General Staff of the Australian Army, General Sir Brudenell White in the Canberra air disaster.
 * 1989 – Thirteen people die in a hot air balloon accident near Alice Springs, Northern Territory.