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Menzies Building at Monsah
1944 – The heavy cruiser HMAS Australia is rammed by a Japanese aircraft while operating in the Philippines, in what is claimed to be the first kamikaze attack.
1952 – Trevor Chappell , the youngest of the Chappell cricketing brothers, is born in Glenelg, South Australia .
1962 – David Campese , former rugby union wing , is born in Queanbeyan .
1978 – Civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over Bass Strait south of Melbourne , after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
1986 – Death of Lionel Murphy , Attorney-General in the Government of Gough Whitlam , and a Justice of the High Court of Australia , aged 64.
2002 – Two people die in the Monash University shooting .