Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/November/November 12


 * 1860 – The Victorian College for the Deaf is opened in a small house in Peel Street, Windsor.
 * 1919 – Keith and Ross Macpherson Smith set out to fly a Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, from England to Australia, the first flight between these two places. They arrive in Darwin on December 18.
 * 1943 – Japanese planes make their last air raid on Darwin.
 * 1971 – The Seven Mile Beach National Park is established 110 km southwest of Sydney.