Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/May/May 19


 * 1861 – Dame Nellie Melba is born in Richmond, Victoria, Victoria
 * 1942 – The prototype CAC Boomerang, an Australian designed and built fighter aircraft, takes to the air for the first time.
 * 1948 – Federal government announced that Australian rail gauges would be standardised by 1951.
 * 1950 – Cabinet agrees to send forces to aid the British during the Malayan Emergency.
 * 2002 – 19th Prime Minister of Australia, John Gorton, dies aged 90.