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Lt. Henry Lidgbird Ball, Commander of Supply

• 1788 – HMS Supply of the First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay.
• 1878 – Construction of The Ghan railway line starts in Port Augusta, South Australia.
• 1934 – Qantas and Imperial Airways join forces and establish Qantas Empire Airways.
• 1977 – A train derailment and bridge collapse kills 83 in the Granville railway disaster.
• 2003 – The Canberra bushfires reach the city, killing four people and destroying in excess of 400 houses.