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Poster depicting the Hospital ship, 'Centaur' being attacked by the Japanese Navy.

• 1798 – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society.
• 1829 – Aboriginal mission on Bruny Island opened by George Augustus Robinson.
• 1859 – The Melbourne Football Club, Australia's oldest football club is founded.
• 1943 – Hospital ship AHS Centaur is sunk by Japanese torpedoes off the coast of Stradbroke Island during World War II, 64 of the 332 armed services personnel on board survived.
• 1969 – Actress Cate Blanchett is born.
• 1984 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
• 2004 – Hobart woman Mary Donaldson marries Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark in Copenhagen to become Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark.