Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/May/May 19

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• 1942 - The prototype CAC Boomerang, an Australian designed and built fighter aircraft, takes to the air for the first time.
• 1948 - Federal government announced that Australian rail gauges would be standardised by 1951.
• 1950 - Cabinet agrees to send forces to aid the British during the Malayan Emergency.
• 1991 - Historian Manning Clark dies.
• 2002 - 19th Prime Minister of Australia, John Gorton, dies aged 90 .