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1938 – Kyeema air disaster kills 18 in Mount Dandenong, Victoria.
1941 – Singer Helen Reddy is born in Melbourne.
1990 – Nelson Mandela visits the Parliament of Victoria, eight-and-a-half months after his release from prison in South Africa.
2003 – Australia defeat Namibia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup by a record 142 points to nil.
2004 – A car bomb explodes near the Australian embassy in Baghdad, killing several Iraqi civilians and injuring three Australian soldiers