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 * 1915 – Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
 * 1942 – HMAS Canberra (D33) is sunk in the Battle of Savo Island.
 * 1962 – The Federal Government bans the drug, thalidomide.
 * 1968 – Actor Eric Bana is born.
 * 1987 – Julian Knight commits the Hoddle Street massacre in Melbourne, claiming seven lives and injuring nineteen others.
 * 1990 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Premier after John Cain II retires from Parliament.
 * 2004 – Richard Butler, the controversial governor of Tasmania, resigns.