Australia On This Day
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Australia On This Day
What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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62 Episoden5 August - 1944 - The Cowra Breakout
REPEAT: At 2am on this day in 1944, the Cowra Breakout began. This episode looks at the man who blew the bugle that gave the signal for the mass escap...
4 August - 1845 - Australia's Titanic
REPEAT: 176 years ago today, Australia suffered what is still our worst civil maritime disaster when the emigrant ship Cataraqui struck a reef off Kin...
3 August - 1912 - The Persecution Of The Eccentric Sexologist
REPEAT: On this day in 1912, William Chidley, radical sexologist and one of Australia’s most eccentric characters, was arrested for being a lunatic –...
2 August - 1986 - The Theft Of The Weeping Woman
REPEAT: On this day in 1986, one of Australia's strangest and funniest crimes was committed when Pablo Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Woman — value...
1 August - 1905 - Australia's First Lady At Law
REPEAT: On this day in 1905, Flos Greig became Australia’s first female lawyer — but before she could practice the law she had to change it via an act...
31 July - 1902 - Henry MacCabe & Our Two Worst Mining Disasters
REPEAT: Australia suffered what is still our worst industrial disaster when an explosion ripped through the Mount Kembla mine on 31 July 1902. Strikin...
30 July - 1930 - The Fate Of Australia's Forgotten Aviator
REPEAT: Pioneering Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Bert Hinkler are household names for their aviation feats and tragic fat...
29 July - 1917 - The Outback Accident That Changed Australian History
REPEAT: On the 24th of May 1917, famous Aussie boxier James Leslie “Les” Darcy died in America. Just over two months later in Western Australia, his n...
28 July - 1950 - The Life-Saving Sacrifice of the Young Snake Catcher
REPEAT: On this day in 1950 in Cairns, amateur herpetologist Kevin Budden caught a Taipan to start Australia’s anti-venom program for that deadly spec...
27 July - 1909 - The Mysterious Disappearance of the S.S. Waratah
REPEAT: On this day in 1909 the SS Waratah, voyaging from Australia to England via South Africa with more than 200 people aboard, vanished without a t...
26 July - 1919 - The Forgotten Flyweight Champion
REPEAT: On this day in 1919, boxer George Mendies won the Australian Flyweight Title — and it was a crown he'd defend successfully again and again. De...
25 July - 1910 - A Meeting Of Magnificent Minds
REPEAT: On this day 111 years ago, two scientific giants spent a couple of hours hanging out and talking shop in Sydney. One had invented the telephon...
24 July - 1920 - Dad & Dave Hit The Silver Screen
REPEAT: On this day in 1920, Raymond Longford's classic silent film On Our Selection had its Australian premiere in Brisbane. This was a bush saga tha...
23 July - 1931 - The Murder Of Mary Edson
REPEAT: On this day in 1931 Australia was shocked by news of an Adelaide crime, as much for its sheer brutality as for the cold and calculating way th...
22 July - 1950 - From Dead Heart To Inland Sea
REPEAT: On this day in 1950, Australia learned that its driest and most inhospitable region had become a huge inland sea — and that it was being explo...
21 July - 1942 - The Coastwatcher's Last Stand
REPEAT: On this day in 1942, the battle for the Kokoda Track began — just as the long and lonely war of a brave Australian coastwatcher came to its en...
20 July - 1940 - Australia's Spitfire Ace
REPEAT: 81 years ago today the Battle of Britain was raging. Among those taking on the Nazis in Spitfires was a handful of young Australian pilots on...
16 July - 1952 - Humping A Swag To Hollywood
REPEAT: Born in 1900, Charles Shaw grew up in poverty, was orphaned at age 14 and worked more tough jobs than he could count over the next two decades...
15 July - 1968 - The Lady Reappears
REPEAT: On this day in 1968, geologist Jim Bowler found the bones of an Aboriginal woman who'd died and been ritually cremated and buried more than 40...
13 July - 1940 - The Death Of A Razor Gangster
REPEAT: On this day in 1940, a bullet-ridden body was found in a dark alley in Sydney's Surry Hills. The reign of razor-gangster William Smiley had co...
12 July - 1912 - Queen Of Swimmers
REPEAT: At the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, champion swimmer Fanny Durack became the first Australian woman to win a gold medal. But Fanny nearly didn'...
11 July - 1980 - FM Radio's Debut Snafus
REPEAT: Back when the Village People's Can't Stop The Music was top of the charts and AC/DC's Back In Black was about to be released, Australian rock...
10 July - 1907 - Hello, Melbourne! Hello, Sydney!
REPEAT: After much preparation, expenditure and near catastrophe, the rival cities of Sydney and Melbourne are as last connected by telephone — but fo...
9 July - 1952 - The Champ's Last Fight
REPEAT: Aboriginal boxer Dave Sands was a household name in the late 1940s and early 1950s, holding three Australian titles — and wearing the Empire M...
8 July - 1965 - The Supreme Ruler Of The Wireless
REPEAT: On this day in 1965, wireless pioneer Sir Ernest Fisk died in his Sydney home. This eccentric genius left a colourful legacy, having not only...
6 July - 1964 - The First Aussie Digger KIA In Vietnam
REPEAT: Australian Army Warrant Officer Kevin Conway of Queensland became the first Australian soldier to die in combat in Vietnam when the Viet Cong...
5 July - 1920 - Eugene Falleni — Murderer?
REPEAT: On this day in 1920 Sydney police arrested a man named Harry Crawford for murder — giving Australian newspapers the story of the year when it...
4 July - 1964 - A Boy And His Steamroller
REPEAT: What possessed a 15-year-old Sydney boy to save for three years to buy a 50-year-old vintage steamroller? How'd he end up splashed across the...
3 July - 1850 - This Train Will Be Delayed... Five Years
REPEAT: Australia's first railway got under way with huge fanfare — and then went nowhere for more than half a decade. As bad as this delay was, a cru...
2 July - 1870 - The Case Of The Electric Snakes
REPEAT: When colonial newspaper readers were jolted by the claim that electric snakes were on the loose, it was up to a heretical scientific genius to...
1 July - 1932 - The Birth of the ABC
REPEAT: The ABC is born amid controversy over whether it should carry advertisements and whether its bosses are politically biased. Here’s the catch:...
Season Finale - 23 September - 1935 - The Strange Case Of Boyd Sinclair
On this day in 1935, taxi driver John Smillie (cousin of William Smillie, the razor gangster of the 13 July episode) was shot dead in Sydney. It'd be...
21 September - 1973 - Blue Poles Polarises Australia
On this day in 1973, the deal was done — Australia was the proud new owner of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. The price? $1.3m — the most ever paid for...
19-20 September - 1992 - The Bodies In Belanglo
On this weekend in 1992, two bodies were found in Belanglo State Forest in the Southern Highlands of NSW. The discovery triggered the hunt for the man...
18 September - 1950 - The Rich Life of our Forgotten Musical Genius
Arthur Benjamin was born on this day in 1893 — and it was also on this day in 1950 that he was in The Sun newspaper slamming Sydney as a backwater. St...
17 September - 1944 - Damien Parer Is Killed In Action
On this day in 1944, Australia's most famous war cameraman — whose film Kokoda Front Line! had won us our first Oscar the previous year — was killed w...
16 September - 1956 - "Good Evening and Welcome to Television"
On this day in 1956, Channel Nine executive Bruce Gyngell uttered these famous words. While TV was a modern marvel, its genesis in Australia dated bac...
15 September - 1895 - Mark Twain Arrives Down Under
125 years ago today, Mark Twain, acclaimed as the world's funniest man, steamed into Sydney Harbour — and started cracking jokes to a newspaper report...
8 September - 1954 - The Dark Side Of Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor was our biggest movie star of the 1960s, beloved by generations of Australians for his knock-about persona and success in Hollywood films s...
7 September - 1920 - Captain Snell Goes Stunting
On this day a century ago, Captain Percy William Snell thrilled Brisbane by performing aviation stunts in a biplane right over the centre of the city....