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John Batman 1770 – HM Bark Endeavour James Cook , first sight the eastern coast of the continent of Australia .
1836 – John Batman (pictured) and his family arrive at Port Phillip , in present-day Victoria , and settle on Batman Hill.1908 – Forty-four people are killed and 400 injured after two trains collide Sunshine railway station , the junction of the Ballarat and Bendigo railway lines .1919 – Richard Hillary Royal Australian Air Force pilot and author of the autobiographical The Last Enemy Sydney , New South Wales .1954 – In the Petrov Affair Evdokia Petrova seeks political asylum after the plane carrying her back to the Soviet Union lands at Darwin, with her escorts disarmed by Commonwealth police.
