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Sir Owen Dixon

• 1831 – The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's oldest newspaper, is first published in Sydney, New South Wales.
• 1889 – Jessie Street, the feminist and human-rights campaigner, is born in Chota Nagpur, India.
• 1951 – Journalist and anthropologist Daisy Bates dies in Adelaide.
• 1952 – Sir Owen Dixon (pictured) is appointed to the position of Chief Justice of Australia, succeeding Sir John Latham.
• 1986 – The 22nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards are presented at the State Theatre in Sydney, with Daryl Somers winning the Gold Logie as the most popular Australian television personality.
• 2008 – Painter Edgar Dell, known for his watercolours of wildflowers in Western Australia, dies at the age of 106.