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Bondi Beach

• 1788 – The first female convicts arrive at Port Jackson.
• 1794 – John Hunter is appointed the second Governor of New South Wales.
• 1851 – "Black Thursday" as bushfires rage from Mount Gambier to Melbourne.
• 1938 – Black Sunday at Bondi Beach, Sydney. Three hundred swimmers dragged out to sea in three freak waves. Eighty lifesavers save all but five.
• 1984 – A bomb blast wrecks the home of High Court judge Richard Gee in the Sydney suburb of Belrose.
• 1987 – Anthony Mason is appointed as the ninth Chief Justice of Australia.
• 1991 – Roma Mitchell is appointed Governor of South Australia, she was the first female Governor of an Australian state.
• 1993 – In the Western Australia election the ALP government of Carmen Lawrence is defeated and the Liberal Party's Richard Court becomes the new premier.