1818 - John Oxley loses a valuable horse crossing Camden Haven, New South Wales.
1826 - Publicly hanged on gallows constructed in Bankstown ('Irish Town', now Bass Hill), Patrick Sullivan and James Moran, for bushranging.
1845 - The Brig Eliza Kincaird berthes at Brisbane to take the first cargo of Queensland produce to London direct from Moreton Bay.
1848 - Gregor McGregor, one of the first South Australian representatives in the Federal Parliament, is born.
1854 - William Lloyd "Billy" Murdoch, an Australian cricketer who captained the Australian national side in 16 Test matches between 1880 and 1890, is born. He captained four tours of England, one of which, in 1882, gave rise to The Ashes.
1854 - With formal authority for establishing a branch of the Royal Mint in Sydney having been given, on October 17, 1854, the designs for the new Australian sovereign and half-sovereign were approved.
1866 - George A. Robinson, who brought in to the authorities the Tasmanian Aborigines, dies.
1869 - The Great Western Zig Zag Railway, Lithgow, on the Blue Mountains, is opened in New South Wales.
1885 - The Gold Creek reservoir of the Brisbane Waterworks is completed.
1887 - Dr. Camidge consecrated Bishop of Bathurst.
1897 - A nugget of gold weighing 50oz. (1.4kgs) is discovered at Clermont, Queensland.
1900 - The control of Norfolk Island was taken over by New South Wales. It was transferred to the Commonwealth on 1 July 1914.
1905 - The Federal Wireless Telegraphy Act is passed. It was based on the English Act of 1904.
1909 - New South Wales agrees to surrender 2400 square kilometres of land for the creation of the Australian Capital Territory.
1909 - First sitting in Brisbane of the Federal Arbitration Court.
1919 – Adrian Knox is appointed as the second Chief Justice of Australia.
1926 - North Eton cane growers decide to purchase the state sugar mill for £60,000.
1928 - Constable William Murray returns to Alice Springs after massacring Aborigines at Coniston Station.
1934 - Charles Prince of Morphettville is found guilty of fraud for the "ring in" of Redlock at the Murray Bridge Racing Club on July 28.
1942 - Larry Pickering, political cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator, was born.
1944 - HMAS Geelong was one of four corvettes lost during the Second World War. It collided with an American merchant ship off New Guinea.
1949 - Agreement between the Commonwealth and South Australia on rail standardisation is reached.
1967 - HMAS Perth struck by return fire near Cape Lai, Vietnam, while on the United States 7th Fleet 'gunline'. This was the only occasion on which an Australian warship suffered casualties from enemy fire during the Vietnam War.
1973 - Patrick White wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. White's work explores some of humankind's great existential questions in a distinctly Australian environment.
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Sources:
- Australian War Memorial
- This Day in History
- National Museum Australia
- Anniversaries To-Day (1933, October 18). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
- Anniversaries To-Day (1934, October 18). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
- Anniversaries To-Day (1935, October 18). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 10.
- On This Day (1965, October 19). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 2.
- To-day's Yesterdays (1933, October 18). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 10.
- To-day's Yesterdays (1934, October 18). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 6.
- To-day's Yesterdays (1934, October 18). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 14. To-day's Anniversaries (1930, October 18). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 8.
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