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Here are just some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of.

• 1900 – The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
• 1901 – The first Parliament of Australia opened in the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne (painting by Tom Roberts).
• 1927 – The federal government moved to Canberra from Melbourne with the opening of the Provisional Parliament House.
• 1980 – Swimmer Grant Hackett is born.
• 1985 – Melbourne criminal Christopher Dale Flannery disappears without trace, presumed murdered.
• 1988 – New Parliament House is opened on Capital Hill by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1991 – Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is released.

International Observances.

• Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances:
  – Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. (Guernsey and Jersey)
  – National Day (Alderney)
• Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union)
• Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
  – Victory and Peace Day, marks the capture of Shusha (1992) in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the end of World War II. (Armenia)
  – Victory Day over Nazism in World War II (Ukraine)

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