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![Phar Lap with jockey Jim Pike riding at Flemington race track c 1930](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Phar_Lap.jpg/100px-Phar_Lap.jpg)
- 1886 – Death of Sir James Martin three-time Premier of New South Wales, aged 66.
- 1930 – Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup for the first time.
- 1994 – Sydney airport third runway opens.
- 1997 – Melbourne woman, Mersina Halvagis is murdered whilst visiting her grandmothers grave.