Melbourne

1861

11/7 — Der erste Melbourne Cup Pferderennen wird in Melbourne, Australien, ausgetragen.

1877

3/15 — Erster offizieller Cricket-Testspiel: Australien gegen England im MCG-Stadion in Melbourne, Australien.

1892

6/11 — The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.

1899

2/2 — The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.

1899

2/2 — The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.

1901

5/9 — Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.

1913

3/12 — Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)

1922

9/11 — The Sun News-Pictorial is founded in Melbourne, Australia.

1934

11/11 — The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

1956

12/6 — A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

1965

10/30 — English model Jean Shrimpton causes a global sensation by wearing a daring white minidress to Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia.

1970

10/15 — Bei dem Einsturz eines Teils des neuen West Gate Bridges in Melbourne kommen 35 Bauarbeiter ums Leben.

1978

10/21 — Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.

1986

3/27 — A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.

1990

10/5 — After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

1999

10/31 — Der Yachtsmann Jesse Martin kehrt nach Melbourne zurück, nachdem er 11 Monate lang solo, ohne Unterbrechung und ohne Unterstützung die Welt umsegelt hat.

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