Gday...

1847  -     Inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, is born.

1818  -     Hamilton Hume and James Meehan set out to find an overland route from Sydney to Jervis Bay.

1837  -     The city of Melbourne, Australia, is named. 

1854  -     Australia's first telegraph line is opened. 

1942  -     Japanese bomb the quiet coastal towns of Broome and Wyndham, in Australia's northwest. 

Cheers - John