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 * 1814 – Admiral Arthur Phillip, British naval officer and Governors of New South Wales, dies at Bath, England aged 75.
 * 1918 – The Battle of Mont St. Quentin, a famous Australian action under the leadership of Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, begins.
 * 1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.
 * 1985 – Death of Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.