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1835 The Australia
n city of Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.
1854 Newspaper ''The Age'' is founded in Melbourne, Australia
.
1880 Australia
n bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.
1881 Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia
.
1892 The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia
.
1899 Leaders of six Australia
n colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
1899 The Australian
Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra
) should be located between Sydney
and Melbourne.
1901 Australia
opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1942 Serial killer Singing Strangler in Melbourne
1967 Harold Holt
, Australia
n prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
1970 A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
1974 Former British minister John Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in Melbourne, Australia
.
1976 The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
1984 The Melbourne newspaper ''The Age'' publishes phone taps incriminating an unknown judge.
1986 A car bomb
explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing a police officer.
1986 Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting ''Weeping Woman'' is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia
.
1987 Nine people die and 17 are injured when 19-year-old Julian Knight goes on a shooting rampage in Melbourne.
1987 Queen Street Massacre in Melbourne, Australia
: 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 and injures another 5 in an Australia Post office building in Queen Street, before committing suicide by jumping from the 11th floor.
1997 HM Prison Pentridge in Melbourne, Australia
, is officially closed.
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