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Phar Lap with jockey Jim Pike riding at Flemington race track c 1930

• 1886 – Death of Sir James Martin three-time Premier of New South Wales, aged 66.
• 1930 – Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup for the first time.
• 1994 – Sydney airport third runway opens.
• 1997 – Melbourne woman, Mersina Halvagis is murdered whilst visiting her grandmothers grave.