Portal : Australia/Anniversaries/October/October 19
SIEV X Memorial Sunday, 15 October 2006, Canberra.
1812 – Indefatigable , the first direct convict transport from Britain to Tasmania arrives in Hobart .
1872 – Holtermann's nugget , a 286 kg slab of granite containing 82.11 kg of gold, was found in New South Wales.
1900 – Bill Ponsford , Australian batsman who twice broke the world record for the highest first-class score, is born in North Fitzroy , Melbourne .
1960 – Death of George Wallace , comedian , vaudevillian and film star , aged 65, at Kensington, New South Wales .
1979 – The Australian Federal Police is established.
1991 – The perjury trial of former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen ends in a hung jury. Prosecutors decide against a retrial on the basis of Joh's advancing age & divided public opinion.
1999 – Steve Bracks sworn in as Premier of Victoria after defeating Jeff Kennett in the 1999 Victorian state election.
2000 – Charles Perkins , Aboriginal activist dies.
2001 – SIEV-X , an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island , carrying over 400 asylum seekers , sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.