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rockylizard


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Gday...

1809  - 

German composer Felix Mendelssohn is born. 

1830  - 

George Robinson sets off on a four-year walk around Tasmania as missionary to the Aborigines.

1899  - 

It is decided at the Premier's Conference that the capital city of Australia should be neither Melbourne nor Sydney. 

1954  - 

Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first reigning monarch to visit Australia. 

1959  - 

1950s rock and roll musician Buddy Holly is killed in an aeroplane crash.

Cheers - John



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I saw the Queen when she came here... I was 8, and probably more interested in the train ride to the event.

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I was 9 and sitting on my father's shoulders for a great view. Betty was travelling in the back of an open-top Land Rover, which I thought was a tad downmarket hehe.

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