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rockylizard


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Gday...

1830  -     Sturt's party reaches the junction of the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers on their arduous journey upstream to Sydney. 

1910  -     The first flight of a powered aircraft in Australia is made by Frederick Custance, near Adelaide. 

1966  -     The Queens Commendation is awarded to personnel who disarmed a WWII sea mine which washed up on the beach at Surfers Paradise earlier in March. 

461  -       Today is St Patrick's Day, celebrating the patron saint of Ireland. 

1912  -     Lawrence Oates, of Scott's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, utters his famous last words: 'I am just going outside and I may be some time.' 

Cheers - John



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Now there's an interesting expression - ill-fated. If the future doesn't exist, nor the past, but only the present, then how can anything be ill-fated? :)

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