Here are some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of in the comments section.
- 1835 – Governor Bourke implemented the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.
- 1880 – Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappeared on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
- 1892 – Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.
- 1915 – Twenty-six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the “Cooee March”; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted “cooee” to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits
- 1923 – Telephone link between Sydney and Brisbane officially opened.
- 1924 – Commonwealth Electoral Act was enacted making voting in federal elections compulsory.
- 1924 – James Clavell, novelist, screenwriter, and World War II POW, was born in Sydney.
- 1996 – Schoolboy Tjandamurra O’Shane (pictured) is set alight in his school playground in a racial attack (read the full story here).
- 2004 – The John Howard-led Coalition is returned to power at federal election, and gains control of the Senate.
International Observances.
- Arbor Day (Poland)
- Army Day (Sri Lanka)
- Capital Liberation Day (Vietnam)
- Constitution Day (Sint Maarten)
- Curaçao Day, anniversary of autonomy
- Double Ten Day (The National Day of Republic of China), celebrates outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that led to founding of the Republic of China in 1912
- Fiji Day, celebrates the independence of Fiji from United Kingdom in 1970
- Finnish Literature Day (Finland)
- Independence Day, commemorates the proclamation of Cuba’s independence from Spain and the beginning of the Ten Years’ War in 1868.
- Party Foundation Day (North Korea)
- World Day Against the Death Penalty
- World Mental Health Day
- World Porridge Day
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