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The National Carillon in Canberra

• 1890 – A. B. "Banjo" Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River is first published.
• 1916 – Writer Morris West, the author of The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman, is born in St Kilda, Victoria.
• 1924 – An explosion on the SS Singapore, berthed in Port Adelaide, South Australia, kills 13 people.
• 1939 – Robert Menzies becomes Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding interim prime minister Sir Earle Page, who served for three weeks after the death of Joseph Lyons.
• 1970 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the National Carillon (pictured) in Canberra, a gift of the British government commemorating the establishment of the national capital.