June 21
Born on this day Monday, June 21, 1982. : Prince William of Wales is born. Prince William of Wales was born William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor at 9:03pm on 21 June 1982 in St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London. On 4 August 1982, the 82nd birthday of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, he was christened by […]
June 12
Australian History Friday, June 12, 1931. : The territories of North Australia and Central Australia are reunited as the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, bordered by the states of Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia. From 1825 to 1863, the Northern Territory was part of New South Wales. In 1863, control […]
June 22
Born on this day Sunday, June 22, 1930. : Aviator Charles Lindbergh’s young son, who is later kidnapped and murdered, is born. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr was born on 22 June 1930. His father was Charles Lindbergh, most famous for being the first pilot to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. Because his father’s flying […]
June 04
Born on this day Sunday, June 4, 1911. : Dr Alan Walker, founder of Lifeline, is born. Alan Walker, Australian theologian and the founder of Lifeline, was born on 4 June 1911 in Australia. He served as Superintendent of the Methodist (later Uniting Church in Australia) Wesley Mission, Pitt Street, Sydney, from 1958 to 1978. Soon after […]
June 27
Born on this day Sunday, June 27, 1880. : Helen Keller, the first blind and deaf person to communicate effectively with the sighted and hearing world, is born. Helen Keller was born on 27 June 1880 near Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. Though normal at birth, she lost her senses of sight and hearing as a result of a […]
June 13
Australian Explorers Saturday, June 13, 1874. : Explorer John Forrest’s party fires upon Aborigines during an attack in central Western Australia. John Forrest was born on 22 August 1847, near Bunbury in Western Australia. Between the years of 1869 to 1874, Forrest led three expeditions, two of them with his brother Alexander, to explore the uncharted areas […]
June 24
Australian History Friday, June 24, 1870. : Australian horseman and poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, commits suicide. Adam Lindsay Gordon was born on 19 October 1833, at Fayal in the Azores, a group of Portuguese islands in the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon, Portugal. Educated in his teenage years in England, he was a wayward youth. […]
June 14
Born on this day Tuesday, June 14, 1864. : Alois Alzheimer, the man who first identifies the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, is born. Aloysius “Alois” Alzheimer was born on 14 June 1864 in Marktbreit, Bavaria. He was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, and the first to identify the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer’s Disease. […]
June 15
Australian History Sunday, June 15, 1862. : Australia’s largest ever gold robbery is carried out by bushranger Frank Gardiner near Forbes, New South Wales. Frank Gardiner was born Francis Christie in 1829, in Scotland. He was first convicted of horse stealing in Victoria in 1850, and sentenced to five years hard labour in Pentridge Gaol. After escaping […]
June 03
Australian Explorers Tuesday, June 3, 1862. : John McKinlay, during his relief expedition to locate the missing Burke and Wills, loses a horse to snake bite. The Burke and Wills expedition was supposed to mark the state of Victoria’s greatest triumph: Victoria hoped to be the first state to mount an expedition to cross the continent from […]