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AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Friday, January 1, 1915. :   Four Australians are killed when two Turks attack a picnic train near Broken Hill. Each New Year’s Day in Australia,...

Born on this day Friday, January 2, 1920. :   Chemist and science-fiction writer, Isaac Asimov, is born. Isaac Asimov was born on 2 January 1920 in Petrovichi, USSR. When...

Born on this day Sunday, January 3, 1892. :   J.R.R.Tolkien, author of ‘Lord of the Rings’, is born. J.R.R.Tolkien was born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien on 3 January 1892...

Born on this day Wednesday, January 4, 1809. :   Louis Braille, inventor of the raised-dot writing system for the blind, is born. Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille...

Born on this day Monday, January 5, 1778. :   George Evans, explorer in the early New South Wales colony, is born. George William Evans was born on 5 January...

Born on this day Monday, January 6, 1412. :   Tradition suggests that Christian martyr Joan of Arc was born. Whilst the exact date of Joan of Arc’s birth is...

Australian Explorers Monday, January 7, 1799. :   Bass and Flinders complete their first circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land. Matthew Flinders and George Bass were early sea explorers who charted...

Born on this day Tuesday, January 8, 1935. :   Elvis Presley, King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, is born. Elvis Aaron Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on 8 January...

Australian Explorers Tuesday, January 9, 1816. :   Explorer James Kelly lands at Port Dalrymple, Tasmania, where he is arrested as a bushranger. Captain James Kelly was born in Parramatta,...

Australian History Saturday, January 10, 1852. :   South Australia’s first lighthouse begins operation. Kangaroo Island is a protected and unspoilt island off the coast of South Australia, and 112...

Born on this day Wednesday, January 11, 1843. :   The man who built Fremantle Harbour and who brought water to the Western Australian goldfields, CY O’Connor, is born....

Born on this day Wednesday, January 12, 1876. :   Jack London, author of “Call of the Wild”, is born. Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on 12 January...

Australian History Friday, January 13, 1939. :   71 people die in Victoria in bushfires on ‘Black Friday’. Friday the thirteenth is considered by the superstitious to be a day...

Born on this day Thursday, January 14, 1875. :   German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician, Albert Schweitzer, is born. Albert Schweitzer was born on 14 January 1875 in Kaysersberg,...

Born on this day Tuesday, January 15, 1929. :   Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, is born. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta,...

Australian Explorers Saturday, January 16, 1909. :   Australian geologists Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David become the first to reach the magnetic South Pole. The South Pole is the southernmost...

Australian Explorers Sunday, January 17, 1773. :   Captain James Cook’s ship, the ‘Resolution’, becomes the first known ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. James Cook was born at Marton...

Born on this day Thursday, January 18, 1849. :   Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia, is born. Sir Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of...

Australian History Tuesday, January 19, 1790. :   The second fleet of convicts sets sail from England to New South Wales. The First Fleet of convicts, which established the colony...

Australian History Thursday, January 20, 1803. :   Superintendent of public works, Charles Grimes, arrives at the Mornington Peninsula, now a popular holiday spot, where he pronounces it unsuitable for...

Born on this day Wednesday, January 21, 1801. :   Unofficial founder of Melbourne, John Batman, is born. John Batman was born in Parramatta, Sydney, on 21 January 1801. As...

Australian History Tuesday, January 22, 1788. :   Captain Arthur Phillip names Manly Cove in Sydney. In 1786 the decision was made in England to send a colonisation party of...

Australian Explorers Saturday, January 23, 1830. :   Charles Sturt’s exploration party narrowly avoids a confrontation with hostile Aborigines. Captain Charles Sturt was born in India in 1795. He came...

Australian History Thursday, January 24, 1788. :   French ships are noted outside Botany Bay just two days before Captain Arthur Phillip takes formal possession of New South Wales. Over...

Born on this day Thursday, January 25, 1759. :   Scottish poet Robert Burns is born. Robert Burns, often called the Bard of Ayrshire, was born on 25 January 1759...

Australian Explorers Tuesday, January 26, 1802. :   Flinders crosses the 129th degree of longitude, which is later to become the border between Western Australia and South Australia. Matthew Flinders...

Born on this day Tuesday, January 27, 1756. :   Austrian Classical composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is born. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria....

Australian Explorers Thursday, January 28, 1802. :   Flinders discovers and names Fowlers Bay in South Australia. Matthew Flinders was born on 16 March 1774 in Lincolnshire, England. He became...

Born on this day Tuesday, January 29, 1850. :   Lawrence Hargrave, Australian inventor of the box kite, is born. Lawrence Hargrave was born on 29 January 1850 at Greenwich,...

Born on this day Sunday, January 30, 1910. :   British actor, David Niven, is born. James David Graham Niven was born on 30 January 1910 in London, England. After...

Born on this day Sunday, January 31, 1762. :   Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, is born. Lachlan Macquarie was born on 31...