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 * 1790 – Governor Phillip is speared in the shoulder while speaking with a group of Indigenous Australians, due to a misunderstanding.
 * 1795 – The HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney carrying the new Governor John Hunter, the Aboriginal Bennelong, and the explorers Matthew Flinders and George Bass.
 * 1917 – Birth of John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
 * 1936 – Tasmania's last remaining Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger) dies in Hobart Zoo.
 * 1994 – Death of James Clavell, Australian-born American author (b. 1924).
 * 1996 – National Threatened Species Day was first held; the date was chosen in memory of the last Thylacine.