October

In what became known as The Walsh Street Police Shootings, 2 Victorian police, Constables Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre were shot dead on the 12th of October 1988. Born on this day: Hugh Jackman…

The single Part Three Into Paper Walls by Russell Morris went to number 1 on the 11th of October 1969. Cold Chisel played at Largs Pier Hotel, Largs Bay on this day in 1974.

Australian Rules Footballer Roy Cazaly passed away in Tasmania on the 10th of October 1963 aged 70. Also passing today: Dame Joan Sutherland, Ed Nimmervoll

Australian representative rugby league player, Darren Britt, was born in Orange, NSW, on the 9th of October 1969. Also born today: Mark Viduka, Todd Kelly…

Comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television presenter Paul Hogan was born in Sydney, New South Wales on the 8th of October 1939. Ken Warby set the water speed record of 511.10 kilometres per hour (317.58 miles per hour), on Blowering Dam, NSW, on the 8th of October 1978.

Sir Zelman Cowen, the 19th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Melbourne on the 7th of October 1919. Novelist & playwright, Thomas Keneally was born in Sydney, NSW in 1935.