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 * 1915 – Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.
 * 1917 – The second plebiscite on the issue of military conscription was held; it was defeated.
 * 1928 – Hubert Wilkins makes the first flight over Antarctica in his Lockheed Vega San Francisco.
 * 1961 – Earle Page, the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia dies.
 * 1991 – Paul Keating becomes the twenty-fourth Prime Minister of Australia.