1833: Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon was born. He was educated in England as a teenager and after completing his studies, his father sent him to South Australia. His poems expressed his love for horses. He also captured an emerging Australian identity and the use of Australian idioms. The day after the publication of his collection of poems, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, he committed suicide on Melbourne's Brighton Beach.


1872: Workers at the Star of Hope Gold Mine in Mount Hawkins discovered the Bayes and Holtmann nugget, the largest single piece of reef gold ever discovered in the world. It weighed approximately 286 kg, contained 82.11 kg of gold, was 150 cm long and 66 cm wide and was worth at least £12,000 at the time.


1933: Pilot Charles Ulm set a new flight record between Britain and Australia. At that time, Ulm began to return to Australia from the UK due to continued bad weather. It was on this return journey that he set a new flight record of 6 days, 17 hours and 56 minutes, arriving in Derby, Western Australia, on 19 October 1933. This beat Kingsford Smith’s previous record of 7 days, 4 hours and 50 minutes.


1979: The Australian Federal Police was established. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government, with unique responsibilities for investigating crime and protecting the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia. Since its inception, the Australian Federal Police has also had a long history of involvement in international peacekeeping, policing and capacity building.


2022: Japan and Australia would share intelligence assessments of China's military buildup and intentions under a security agreement to be signed by the two countries' prime ministers. Japanese Ambassador Shingo Yamama also hinted Australia could be invited to next year's G7 summit in Hiroshima, saying Australia's participation would be a "natural" step amid rising tensions in the region.