Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/June/June 9
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- 1803 - HMS Investigator arrives in Port Jackson after circumnavigating Australia. On the voyage Matthew Flinders charted the coast and Robert Brown made an extensive collection of the flora of Australia.
- 1838 - 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.
- 1925 - Ten people killed in a train derailment at Traveston, Queensland
- 1979 - Seven people die in a fire on the ghost train at Luna Park Sydney.
